⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Grizzlies stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ PHX better than we expected
-5Q116-21
+4Q222-20
-3Q324-30
-3Q419-21
▼ MEM better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 5 points worse than our numbers for the Suns.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Grizzlies won, and why the Suns did not.
From the game
Won the glass, 42 rebounds to 32- Ran them off the floor, 19 fast break points to 1
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their fourteen
Key battles
1Fast break points19
5Threes made2
36%Three-point accuracy25%
11Offensive rebounds7
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Suns
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run cut a 16-point deficit to 8
Q4 2:00 · PHX 81-89 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
| PHX | MEM | |
|---|---|---|
| 39% | Shooting from the field | 54% |
| 5 | Threes made | 2 |
| 36% | Three-point accuracy | 25% |
| 14 | Free throws made | 16 |
| 37 | Rebounds | 51 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 7 |
| 18 | Assists | 22 |
| 34 | Points in the paint | 44 |
| 1 | Fast break points | 19 |
| 15 | Points off turnovers | 18 |
| 14 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 10 | Steals | 12 |
| 5 | Blocks | 4 |
