⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Nets got 24 points ahead of the pace we expected in the third quarter and stayed there. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ CLE better than we expected
▼ BKN better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 26 points worse than our numbers for the Cavaliers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Nets won, and why the Cavaliers did not.
From the game
Made fourteen threes to their three- A 18-0 run from level to 18 points up in the third quarter
- Gave up second chances, sixteen offensive rebounds to their eight
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Cavaliers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Nets
Good plays
- 18-0 run
A 18-0 run from level to 18 points up
Q3 9:55 · CLE 50-68 BKN
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| CLE | BKN | |
|---|---|---|
| 38% | Shooting from the field | 44% |
| 3 | Threes made | 14 |
| 17% | Three-point accuracy | 41% |
| 15 | Free throws made | 12 |
| 57 | Rebounds | 51 |
| 16 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 18 | Assists | 23 |
| 34 | Points in the paint | 46 |
| 10 | Fast break points | 2 |
| 14 | Points off turnovers | 19 |
| 15 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 5 | Steals | 8 |
| 2 | Blocks | 1 |
