⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Grizzlies got 14 points ahead of the pace we expected in the second quarter and stayed there.
Where it moved
▲ MEM better than we expected
▼ CHI better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 8 points better than our numbers for the Grizzlies.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Grizzlies won, and why the Bulls did not.
From the game
Lived at the line, 28 free throws to their fourteen- A 12-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 13 in the second quarter
- Kept giving it away, sixteen turnovers to their ten
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Grizzlies
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 2 down to 6 up
Q1 10:33 · MEM 8-2 CHI
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 13
Q2 3:20 · MEM 48-35 CHI
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Bulls
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| MEM | CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| 52% | Shooting from the field | 36% |
| 8 | Threes made | 9 |
| 47% | Three-point accuracy | 41% |
| 22 | Free throws made | 11 |
| 65 | Rebounds | 67 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 5 |
| 23 | Assists | 19 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 22 | Fast break points | 13 |
| 11 | Points off turnovers | 13 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 10 |
| 5 | Steals | 10 |
| 6 | Blocks | 2 |
