⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Clippers got 16 points ahead of the pace we expected in the fourth quarter.
Where it moved
▲ CLE better than we expected
▼ LAC better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 10 points worse than our numbers for the Cavaliers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Clippers won, and why the Cavaliers did not.
From the game
Made twenty threes to their four- Shot well above their usual, twenty of 34 from three
- A 12-0 run stretched a 10-point lead to 22 in the fourth quarter
- Kept giving it away, sixteen turnovers to their eight
- Beaten inside, 36 points in the paint to 58
A 12-0 run took them from 8 down to 4 up in the second quarter
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
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run took them from 8 down to 4 up
Q2 8:22 · CLE 43-39 LAC
Bad plays
- Technical
Double technical foul - Andre Drummond and Serge Ibaka
Q3 7:00 · CLE 53-66 LAC
Clippers
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 1 down to 7 up
Q1 9:22 · CLE 6-13 LAC
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 12
Q2 0:00 · CLE 49-61 LAC
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run stretched a 10-point lead to 22
Q4 6:12 · CLE 93-115 LAC
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| CLE | LAC | |
|---|---|---|
| 45% | Shooting from the field | 56% |
| 4 | Threes made | 20 |
| 40% | Three-point accuracy | 59% |
| 13 | Free throws made | 13 |
| 42 | Rebounds | 52 |
| 11 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 21 | Assists | 22 |
| 58 | Points in the paint | 36 |
| 12 | Fast break points | 6 |
| 12 | Points off turnovers | 18 |
| 8 | Turnovers | 16 |
| 8 | Steals | 4 |
| 6 | Blocks | 6 |
