⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Wizards stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ WSH better than we expected
▼ MIN better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 9 points better than our numbers for the Wizards.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Wizards won, and why the Timberwolves did not.
From the game
Made ten threes to their three- Shot well above their usual, ten of seventeen from three
- A 14-0 run took them from 2 down to 12 up in the first quarter
- Could not get to the line, eighteen free throws to their 35
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Wizards
Good plays
- 14-0 run
A 14-0 run took them from 2 down to 12 up
Q1 10:42 · WSH 14-2 MIN
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 2-point lead to 10
Q4 11:37 · WSH 82-72 MIN
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 7-point lead to 17
Q4 6:22 · WSH 102-85 MIN
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Timberwolves
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| WSH | MIN | |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | Shooting from the field | 44% |
| 10 | Threes made | 3 |
| 59% | Three-point accuracy | 38% |
| 13 | Free throws made | 20 |
| 50 | Rebounds | 58 |
| 10 | Offensive rebounds | 11 |
| 29 | Assists | 17 |
| 44 | Points in the paint | 42 |
| 16 | Fast break points | 9 |
| 15 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 10 | Turnovers | 10 |
| 7 | Steals | 7 |
| 8 | Blocks | 5 |
