⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Lakers got 16 points ahead of the pace we expected in the second quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ LAL better than we expected
▼ OKC better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 12 points better than our numbers for the Lakers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Lakers won, and why the Thunder did not.
From the game
Made seventeen threes to their three
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Lakers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Shaquille O'Neal Technical Foul
Q4 5:24 · LAL 106-86 OKC
Thunder
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Desmond Mason missed Technical Free Throw.
Q4 5:24 · LAL 106-86 OKC
📊The numbers
| LAL | OKC | |
|---|---|---|
| 56% | Shooting from the field | 48% |
| 17 | Threes made | 3 |
| 53% | Three-point accuracy | 38% |
| 16 | Free throws made | 15 |
| 50 | Rebounds | 43 |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 12 |
| 32 | Assists | 25 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 9 | Fast break points | 6 |
| 21 | Points off turnovers | 24 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 12 |
| 7 | Steals | 10 |
| 5 | Blocks | 0 |
