⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Suns stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ MIL better than we expected
▼ PHX better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 7 points worse than our numbers for the Bucks.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Suns won, and why the Bucks did not.
From the game
Gave up second chances, twenty offensive rebounds to their eleven
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Bucks
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Suns
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Joe Johnson missed Free Throw 1 of 2.
Q4 0:49 · MIL 106-112 PHX
- Missed FT
Quentin Richardson missed Free Throw 1 of 2.
Q4 0:28 · MIL 110-115 PHX
- Missed FT
Steve Nash missed Free Throw 1 of 2.
Q4 0:20 · MIL 113-116 PHX
📊The numbers
| MIL | PHX | |
|---|---|---|
| 46% | Shooting from the field | 51% |
| 5 | Threes made | 10 |
| 29% | Three-point accuracy | 42% |
| 22 | Free throws made | 25 |
| 54 | Rebounds | 52 |
| 20 | Offensive rebounds | 11 |
| 20 | Assists | 29 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 12 | Fast break points | 20 |
| 9 | Points off turnovers | 18 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 8 |
| 5 | Steals | 7 |
| 2 | Blocks | 3 |
