⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Spurs got 9 points ahead of the pace we expected in the third quarter, then it evened out by full time. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ LAC better than we expected
▼ SA better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 4 points worse than our numbers for the Clippers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Spurs won, and why the Clippers did not.
From the game
Lived at the line, 27 free throws to their seventeen- A 16-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 20 in the third quarter
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their thirteen, and were outscored 27-9 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Clippers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Spurs
Good plays
- 16-0 run
A 16-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 20
Q3 8:11 · LAC 40-60 SA
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| LAC | SA | |
|---|---|---|
| 38% | Shooting from the field | 48% |
| 1 | Threes made | 6 |
| 11% | Three-point accuracy | 35% |
| 13 | Free throws made | 22 |
| 42 | Rebounds | 50 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 7 |
| 19 | Assists | 24 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 8 | Fast break points | 2 |
| 27 | Points off turnovers | 9 |
| 13 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 12 | Steals | 5 |
| 5 | Blocks | 3 |
