⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Suns stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ OKC better than we expected
▼ PHX better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 7 points worse than our numbers for the Thunder.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Suns won, and why the Thunder did not.
From the game
Made fifteen threes to their three- Shot well above their usual, fifteen of 21 from three
- A 12-0 run took them from 1 down to 11 up in the third quarter
- Kept giving it away, 27 turnovers to their nineteen, and were outscored 32-14 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Thunder
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run cut a 13-point deficit to 3
Q2 9:56 · OKC 35-38 PHX
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Kevin Durant misses technical free throw
Q1 8:38 · OKC 5-10 PHX
Suns
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 11
Q2 1:15 · OKC 55-66 PHX
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run took them from 1 down to 11 up
Q3 2:57 · OKC 78-89 PHX
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| OKC | PHX | |
|---|---|---|
| 48% | Shooting from the field | 57% |
| 3 | Threes made | 15 |
| 50% | Three-point accuracy | 71% |
| 19 | Free throws made | 9 |
| 47 | Rebounds | 60 |
| 6 | Offensive rebounds | 7 |
| 17 | Assists | 26 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 22 | Fast break points | 22 |
| 32 | Points off turnovers | 14 |
| 19 | Turnovers | 27 |
| 12 | Steals | 11 |
| 3 | Blocks | 2 |
