⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Pelicans stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ NO better than we expected
▼ BOS better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 9 points worse than our numbers for the Pelicans.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Pelicans won, and why the Celtics did not.
From the game
Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their fourteen
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
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Missed FT
David Wesley missed Technical Free Throw.
Q1 5:09 · NO 14-8 BOS
- Turnover
Jamaal Magloire Lost Ball. Stolen by Walter McCarty.
Q4 4:43 · NO 73-68 BOS
Celtics
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Paul Pierce missed Technical Free Throw.
Q3 4:33 · NO 55-50 BOS
- Turnover
Paul Pierce Traveling
Q4 4:56 · NO 73-68 BOS
- Turnover
Jiri Welsch Lost Ball. Stolen by Darrell Armstrong.
Q4 4:37 · NO 73-68 BOS
📊The numbers
| NO | BOS | |
|---|---|---|
| 40% | Shooting from the field | 32% |
| 5 | Threes made | 7 |
| 31% | Three-point accuracy | 26% |
| 22 | Free throws made | 19 |
| 64 | Rebounds | 57 |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 13 |
| 27 | Assists | 14 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 5 | Fast break points | 3 |
| 8 | Points off turnovers | 10 |
| 20 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 7 | Steals | 14 |
| 5 | Blocks | 6 |
