⏱️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 second quarter, then it evened out by full time.
Where it moved
▲ PHX better than we expected
▼ GS better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 16 points better than our numbers for the Suns.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Suns won, and why the Warriors did not.
From the game
Kept giving it away, sixteen turnovers to their seven, and were outscored 20-4 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Suns
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 14
Q3 3:40 · PHX 93-79 GS
Bad plays
- Technical
Grant Hill technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q2 8:49 · PHX 41-43 GS
- Turnover
Boris Diaw turnover
Q4 4:05 · PHX 114-106 GS
- Missed FT
Grant Hill misses free throw 1 of 2
Q4 0:27 · PHX 120-115 GS
Warriors
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| PHX | GS | |
|---|---|---|
| 55% | Shooting from the field | 41% |
| 12 | Threes made | 10 |
| 50% | Three-point accuracy | 40% |
| 21 | Free throws made | 19 |
| 68 | Rebounds | 74 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 27 | Assists | 17 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 16 | Fast break points | 22 |
| 4 | Points off turnovers | 20 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 7 |
| 2 | Steals | 10 |
| 8 | Blocks | 2 |
