⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Suns got 11 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ BKN better than we expected
▼ PHX better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 11 points worse than our numbers for the Nets.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Suns won, and why the Nets did not.
From the game
Made fourteen threes to their seven- Looked after the ball, eleven turnovers to their seventeen
- Ran them off the floor, 15 fast break points to 0
- A 12-0 run from level to 12 points up in the first quarter
- Gave up second chances, twenty offensive rebounds to their eleven
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Nets
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Suns
Good plays
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run from level to 12 points up
Q1 9:46 · BKN 2-14 PHX
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 16-point lead to 24
Q4 6:11 · BKN 76-100 PHX
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| BKN | PHX | |
|---|---|---|
| 37% | Shooting from the field | 48% |
| 7 | Threes made | 14 |
| 19% | Three-point accuracy | 34% |
| 9 | Free throws made | 10 |
| 52 | Rebounds | 48 |
| 20 | Offensive rebounds | 11 |
| 16 | Assists | 28 |
| 50 | Points in the paint | 52 |
| 0 | Fast break points | 15 |
| 13 | Points off turnovers | 10 |
| 17 | Turnovers | 11 |
| 8 | Steals | 9 |
| 1 | Blocks | 1 |
