⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Suns fell 9 points behind the pace we expected in the first quarter but finished ahead of it. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ SAC better than we expected
▼ PHX better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 18 points worse than our numbers for the Kings.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Suns won, and why the Kings did not.
From the game
Shot well above their usual, ten of eighteen from three- Could not get to the line, seventeen free throws to their 43
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Kings
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Flagrant
Ron Artest flagrant foul type 1 (Leandro Barbosa draws the foul)
Q4 4:43 · SAC 100-105 PHX
Suns
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| SAC | PHX | |
|---|---|---|
| 54% | Shooting from the field | 57% |
| 7 | Threes made | 10 |
| 33% | Three-point accuracy | 56% |
| 29 | Free throws made | 15 |
| 41 | Rebounds | 44 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 17 | Assists | 27 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 5 | Fast break points | 8 |
| 17 | Points off turnovers | 22 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 15 |
| 10 | Steals | 10 |
| 2 | Blocks | 2 |
