Boston Celtics – Milwaukee Bucks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 9 February 2016

BOS111–112MIL

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There is no sufficient win-probability curve for this game, so it cannot be rated

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when MIL leads and falls when BOS does.

This is how the game was decided.

Greg Monroe decided it, the Milwaukee Bucks player with the most points (29, with 12 rebounds and 3 assists; +9 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Rashad Vaughn's (+10). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Milwaukee Bucks 112-111 Boston Celtics (February 9, 2016) was hit by Greg Monroe: a hook shot with 1.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Milwaukee Bucks up 111-109. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Milwaukee Bucks 112-111 Boston Celtics (February 9, 2016) was a 10-0 run by the Milwaukee Bucks in the third quarter (from 10:22 to 8:11), from 53-59 to 63-59. The Boston Celtics' best was a 9-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 7:39 to 5:16), from 83-101 to 92-101.

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Play: Greg Monroe makes two point shot (Khris Middleton assists).

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

Greg Monroe decided this game: his points put his team ahead with one second left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Monroe decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

9 February 2016 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400828673:528; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2015-16 regular season, not this game.

Boston Celtics

Amir Johnson defended 4.7 shots at the rim per game over his 78 games, and opponents made 7 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 22 of 63 in the league.
Jared Sullinger defended 4.4 shots at the rim per game over his 80 games, and opponents made 3 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 43 of 63 in the league.

Milwaukee Bucks

Giannis Antetokounmpo defended 4.9 shots at the rim per game over his 80 games, and opponents made 6 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 24 of 63 in the league.
Greg Monroe defended 6.0 shots at the rim per game over his 79 games, and opponents made 1 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 50 of 63 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Milwaukee Bucks have won 134 of their 283 games against the Boston Celtics.

134-149record of the Milwaukee Bucks · NBA 1968-69 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1968-69 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

13.215

76.2% of capacity

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Scoring

223

combined points

17.7 above the season average (205.3)