Charlotte Hornets – Indiana Pacers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 26 February 2016

CHA96–95IND

Is it worth watching?

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 IND leads and falls when CHA does.

This is how the game was decided.

Marvin Williams decided it, the Charlotte Hornets player with the most points (26, with 13 rebounds and 1 assists; +1 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Cody Zeller's (+11). 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 Indiana Pacers 95-96 Charlotte Hornets (February 26, 2016) was hit by Kemba Walker: a layup with 2.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Charlotte Hornets up 96-95. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Indiana Pacers 95-96 Charlotte Hornets (February 26, 2016) was a 7-0 run by the Indiana Pacers in the third quarter (from 1:44 to 8.0 s), from 63-77 to 70-77. The Charlotte Hornets' best was a 5-0 run in the first quarter (from 6:24 to 5:37), from 14-15 to 19-15.

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Play: Kemba Walker makes driving layup.

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.

Kemba Walker decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 2 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 3 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Walker 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.

26 February 2016 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400828748:521; 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.

Charlotte Hornets

Cody Zeller defended 4.3 shots at the rim per game over his 73 games, and opponents made 5 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 34 of 63 in the league.
Marvin Williams defended 4.0 shots at the rim per game over his 81 games, and opponents made 5 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 35 of 63 in the league.

Indiana Pacers

Myles Turner defended 5.9 shots at the rim per game over his 60 games, and opponents made 7 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 19 of 63 in the league.
Ian Mahinmi defended 5.1 shots at the rim per game over his 71 games, and opponents made 3 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 42 of 63 in the league.
Jordan Hill defended 4.6 shots at the rim per game over his 73 games, and opponents made 1 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 49 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 Indiana Pacers have won 44 of their 78 games against the Charlotte Hornets.

44-34record of the Indiana Pacers · NBA 2004-05 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2004-05 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

18.165

101.4% of capacity

Gainbridge Fieldhouse · Indianapolis

Scoring

191

combined points

14.3 below the season average (205.3)