⏱️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
▲ PHX better than we expected
▼ SA better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 10 points worse than our numbers for the Suns.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Spurs won, and why the Suns did not.
From the game
Won the glass, 50 rebounds to 35- A 13-0 run took them from 3 down to 10 up in the second quarter
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their fourteen
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Suns
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Spurs
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 6 down to 2 up
Q2 4:13 · PHX 39-41 SA
- 13-0 run
A 13-0 run took them from 3 down to 10 up
Q2 1:35 · PHX 45-55 SA
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run from level to 10 points up
Q4 9:51 · PHX 77-87 SA
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| PHX | SA | |
|---|---|---|
| 40% | Shooting from the field | 53% |
| 10 | Threes made | 5 |
| 37% | Three-point accuracy | 31% |
| 14 | Free throws made | 24 |
| 38 | Rebounds | 54 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 9 |
| 15 | Assists | 19 |
| 34 | Points in the paint | 48 |
| 21 | Fast break points | 11 |
| 16 | Points off turnovers | 19 |
| 14 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 9 | Steals | 6 |
| 3 | Blocks | 2 |
