⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Nuggets stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ DEN better than we expected
▼ MEM better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 7 points worse than our numbers for the Nuggets.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Nuggets won, and why the Grizzlies did not.
From the game
Looked after the ball, twelve turnovers to their twenty, and outscored them 29-13 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Nuggets
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Grizzlies
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 9
Q1 8:30 · DEN 8-17 MEM
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 3-point lead to 11
Q1 5:26 · DEN 17-28 MEM
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| DEN | MEM | |
|---|---|---|
| 55% | Shooting from the field | 58% |
| 9 | Threes made | 8 |
| 53% | Three-point accuracy | 44% |
| 30 | Free throws made | 19 |
| 39 | Rebounds | 51 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 36 | Assists | 27 |
| 54 | Points in the paint | 66 |
| 26 | Fast break points | 31 |
| 29 | Points off turnovers | 13 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 9 | Steals | 7 |
| 6 | Blocks | 8 |
