⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Spurs stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ DET better than we expected
0Q125-26
0Q226-26
0Q315-19
-3Q423-29
▼ SA better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 3 points worse than our numbers for the Pistons.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Spurs won, and why the Pistons did not.
From the game
Made ten threes to their three- Shot well above their usual, ten of eighteen from three
- Won the glass, 45 rebounds to 35
- Kept giving it away, fourteen turnovers to their six, and were outscored 17-9 off them
Key battles
8Steals2
3Threes made10
27%Three-point accuracy56%
6Turnovers14
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Pistons
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Spurs
Good plays
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run took them from 5 down to 4 up
Q2 3:48 · DET 48-52 SA
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Tim Duncan misses free throw 1 of 2
Q4 3:03 · DET 82-89 SA
📊The numbers
| DET | SA | |
|---|---|---|
| 43% | Shooting from the field | 53% |
| 3 | Threes made | 10 |
| 27% | Three-point accuracy | 56% |
| 14 | Free throws made | 16 |
| 41 | Rebounds | 50 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 14 | Assists | 24 |
| 40 | Points in the paint | 42 |
| 7 | Fast break points | 8 |
| 17 | Points off turnovers | 9 |
| 6 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 8 | Steals | 2 |
| 2 | Blocks | 5 |
