⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Wizards stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ WSH better than we expected
▼ SAC better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 12 points better than our numbers for the Wizards.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Wizards won, and why the Kings did not.
From the game
Looked after the ball, twelve turnovers to their twenty, and outscored them 18-9 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Wizards
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Kings
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Brad Miller technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q3 1:39 · WSH 77-65 SAC
📊The numbers
| WSH | SAC | |
|---|---|---|
| 42% | Shooting from the field | 43% |
| 9 | Threes made | 7 |
| 41% | Three-point accuracy | 35% |
| 15 | Free throws made | 14 |
| 54 | Rebounds | 61 |
| 3 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 20 | Assists | 20 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 10 | Fast break points | 13 |
| 18 | Points off turnovers | 9 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 7 | Steals | 3 |
| 3 | Blocks | 5 |
