⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Lakers stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ LAL better than we expected
▼ TOR better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 5 points worse than our numbers for the Lakers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Lakers won, and why the Raptors did not.
From the game
Won the glass, 54 rebounds to 36- Made four threes to their eleven
- Could not get to the line, sixteen free throws to their 26
- Kept giving it away, nineteen turnovers to their thirteen
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Lakers
Good plays
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 12
Q2 7:50 · LAL 49-37 TOR
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 15
Q2 1:21 · LAL 66-51 TOR
Bad plays
- Technical
Derek Fisher double technical foul
Q3 7:13 · LAL 71-62 TOR
Raptors
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| LAL | TOR | |
|---|---|---|
| 51% | Shooting from the field | 39% |
| 4 | Threes made | 11 |
| 22% | Three-point accuracy | 44% |
| 14 | Free throws made | 20 |
| 64 | Rebounds | 43 |
| 15 | Offensive rebounds | 11 |
| 34 | Assists | 23 |
| 0 | Points in the paint | 0 |
| 18 | Fast break points | 7 |
| 13 | Points off turnovers | 17 |
| 19 | Turnovers | 13 |
| 10 | Steals | 11 |
| 3 | Blocks | 6 |
