⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Trail Blazers got 14 points ahead of the pace we expected in the third quarter and stayed there.
Where it moved
▲ POR better than we expected
▼ MEM better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 8 points better than our numbers for the Trail Blazers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Trail Blazers won, and why the Grizzlies did not.
From the game
Lived at the line, 36 free throws to their seventeen- Won the glass, 50 rebounds to 39
- A 13-0 run stretched a 6-point lead to 19 in the third quarter
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their eleven
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Trail Blazers
Good plays
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run took them from 1 down to 8 up
Q2 0:46 · POR 51-43 MEM
- 13-0 run
A 13-0 run stretched a 6-point lead to 19
Q3 9:21 · POR 64-45 MEM
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Grizzlies
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| POR | MEM | |
|---|---|---|
| 43% | Shooting from the field | 38% |
| 5 | Threes made | 3 |
| 23% | Three-point accuracy | 21% |
| 30 | Free throws made | 13 |
| 61 | Rebounds | 46 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 11 |
| 16 | Assists | 21 |
| 32 | Points in the paint | 46 |
| 8 | Fast break points | 12 |
| 11 | Points off turnovers | 18 |
| 20 | Turnovers | 11 |
| 8 | Steals | 10 |
| 6 | Blocks | 3 |
