⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Rockets got 17 points ahead of the pace we expected in the third quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ PHI better than we expected
▼ HOU better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 10 points worse than our numbers for the 76ers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Rockets won, and why the 76ers did not.
From the game
Made fourteen threes to their three- Shot well above their usual, fourteen of 25 from three
- Won the glass, 47 rebounds to 32
- Kept giving it away, seventeen turnovers 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.
76ers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Rockets
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 11
Q2 9:47 · PHI 35-46 HOU
Bad plays
- Missed FT
David Wesley missed Technical Free Throw.
Q1 10:04 · PHI 5-3 HOU
📊The numbers
| PHI | HOU | |
|---|---|---|
| 44% | Shooting from the field | 54% |
| 3 | Threes made | 14 |
| 21% | Three-point accuracy | 56% |
| 24 | Free throws made | 22 |
| 40 | Rebounds | 56 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 9 |
| 19 | Assists | 35 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 18 | Fast break points | 12 |
| 17 | Points off turnovers | 17 |
| 11 | Turnovers | 17 |
| 13 | Steals | 4 |
| 1 | Blocks | 3 |
