⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Nuggets got 10 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ DEN better than we expected
▼ TOR better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 11 points better than our numbers for the Nuggets.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Nuggets won, and why the Raptors did not.
From the game
Made eighteen threes to their ten- Shot well above their usual, eighteen of 36 from three
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Nuggets
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Jerami Grant technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q2 3:56 · DEN 65-62 TOR
Raptors
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run cut a 13-point deficit to 5
Q1 1:39 · DEN 40-35 TOR
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run cut a 13-point deficit to 4
Q2 8:47 · DEN 56-52 TOR
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| DEN | TOR | |
|---|---|---|
| 57% | Shooting from the field | 46% |
| 18 | Threes made | 10 |
| 50% | Three-point accuracy | 26% |
| 21 | Free throws made | 26 |
| 49 | Rebounds | 47 |
| 7 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 38 | Assists | 24 |
| 54 | Points in the paint | 62 |
| 7 | Fast break points | 18 |
| 18 | Points off turnovers | 21 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 12 |
| 6 | Steals | 9 |
| 1 | Blocks | 4 |
