Minnesota Timberwolves – Phoenix Suns · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 14 March 2016

MIN104–107PHX

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 PHX leads and falls when MIN does.

This is how the game was decided.

P.J. Tucker decided it, the Phoenix Suns player with the most points (23, with 12 rebounds and 5 assists; +7 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Devin Booker's (+16). 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 Phoenix Suns 107-104 Minnesota Timberwolves (March 14, 2016) was hit by Mirza Teletović: a three-pointer with 1.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Phoenix Suns up 107-104. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Phoenix Suns 107-104 Minnesota Timberwolves (March 14, 2016) was a 8-0 run by the Phoenix Suns in the fourth quarter (from 11:26 to 9:48), from 76-78 to 84-78. The Minnesota Timberwolves' best was a 8-0 run in the second quarter (from 7:58 to 6:30), from 31-36 to 39-36.

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Play: Mirza Teletovic makes 26-foot three point jumper .

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.

Mirza Teletović 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 the only game he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Teletović 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.

14 March 2016 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400828882:584; 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.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Karl-Anthony Towns defended 6.8 shots at the rim per game over his 82 games, and opponents made 4 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 37 of 63 in the league.

Phoenix Suns

Alex Len defended 4.8 shots at the rim per game over his 77 games, and opponents made 2 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 45 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 Phoenix Suns have won 85 of their 138 games against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

85-53record of the Phoenix Suns · NBA 1989-90 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1989-90 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

17.480

102.4% of capacity

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Scoring

211

combined points

5.7 above the season average (205.3)