Boston Celtics – Detroit Pistons · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 19 November 2016

BOS94–92DET

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 DET leads and falls when BOS does.

This is how the game was decided.

Isaiah Thomas decided it, the Boston Celtics player with the most points (24, with 4 rebounds and 8 assists; +3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Al Horford's (+17). 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 Detroit Pistons 92-94 Boston Celtics (November 19, 2016) was hit by Al Horford: a layup with 1.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Boston Celtics up 94-92. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Detroit Pistons 92-94 Boston Celtics (November 19, 2016) was a 11-0 run by the Detroit Pistons in the third quarter (from 8:30 to 6:00), from 49-58 to 60-58. The Boston Celtics' best was a 8-0 run between the second quarter and the third quarter, from 46-47 to 54-47.

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Play: Al Horford makes 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.

Al Horford 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 6 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Horford 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.

19 November 2016 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400899638:463; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2016-17 regular season, not this game.

Boston Celtics

Marcus Smart drew 0.29 charges per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 8 of 371 in the league.
Al Horford contested 13.0 shots per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 9 of 371 in the league.
Avery Bradley recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 55 games.
He ranks 15 of 371 in the league.

Detroit Pistons

Aron Baynes drew 0.17 charges per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 23 of 371 in the league.
Andre Drummond deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 25 of 371 in the league.
Tobias Harris contested 9.4 shots per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 39 of 371 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 Detroit Pistons have won 138 of their 382 games against the Boston Celtics.

138-244record of the Detroit Pistons · NBA 1957-58 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1957-58 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

16.107

79.2% of capacity

Little Caesars Arena · Detroit

Scoring

186

combined points

25.2 below the season average (211.2)