⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Rockets got 9 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there.
Where it moved
▲ NO better than we expected
▼ HOU better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 16 points worse than our numbers for the Pelicans.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Rockets won, and why the Pelicans did not.
From the game
Kept giving it away, eighteen turnovers to their ten, and were outscored 18-3 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Pelicans
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 5 down to 3 up
Q2 7:50 · NO 31-28 HOU
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Rockets
Good plays
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run stretched a 3-point lead to 12
Q3 4:26 · NO 48-60 HOU
Bad plays
- Technical
Yao Ming Technical Foul
Q2 5:47 · NO 30-28 HOU
📊The numbers
| NO | HOU | |
|---|---|---|
| 36% | Shooting from the field | 44% |
| 8 | Threes made | 7 |
| 31% | Three-point accuracy | 39% |
| 10 | Free throws made | 18 |
| 41 | Rebounds | 54 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 10 |
| 22 | Assists | 20 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 1 | Fast break points | 2 |
| 18 | Points off turnovers | 3 |
| 10 | Turnovers | 18 |
| 2 | Steals | 4 |
| 2 | Blocks | 6 |
