⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Mavericks stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ DAL better than we expected
▼ LAL better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 7 points better than our numbers for the Mavericks.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Mavericks won, and why the Lakers 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.
Mavericks
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run from level to 8 points up
Q1 11:41 · DAL 8-0 LAL
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 2-point lead to 10
Q4 8:53 · DAL 95-85 LAL
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Dirk Nowitzki misses technical free throw
Q4 10:14 · DAL 85-83 LAL
Lakers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Kobe Bryant technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q4 10:14 · DAL 85-83 LAL
📊The numbers
| DAL | LAL | |
|---|---|---|
| 60% | Shooting from the field | 44% |
| 4 | Threes made | 6 |
| 36% | Three-point accuracy | 30% |
| 28 | Free throws made | 31 |
| 45 | Rebounds | 37 |
| 7 | Offensive rebounds | 12 |
| 23 | Assists | 14 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 13 | Fast break points | 13 |
| 22 | Points off turnovers | 26 |
| 20 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 8 | Steals | 9 |
| 7 | Blocks | 1 |
