Detroit Pistons – Brooklyn Nets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 21 March 2017

DET96–98BKN

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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 BKN leads and falls when DET does.

This is how the game was decided.

Brook Lopez decided it, the Brooklyn Nets player with the most points (29, with 7 rebounds and 1 assists; +2 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Caris LeVert's (+9). 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 Brooklyn Nets 98-96 Detroit Pistons (March 21, 2017) was hit by Brook Lopez: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Brooklyn Nets up 98-96. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Brooklyn Nets 98-96 Detroit Pistons (March 21, 2017) was a 7-0 run by the Brooklyn Nets in the third quarter (from 3:49 to 2:47), from 65-63 to 72-63. The Detroit Pistons' best was a 7-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 9:03 to 7:24), from 69-79 to 76-79.

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Play: Brook Lopez makes jumper (Randy Foye 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.

Brook Lopez decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 5 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Lopez 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.

21 March 2017 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400900447:488; 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.

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.

Brooklyn Nets

Brook Lopez contested 14.6 shots per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 3 of 371 in the league.
Quincy Acy drew 0.17 charges per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 23 of 371 in the league.
Isaiah Whitehead drew 0.16 charges per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 28 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 Brooklyn Nets have won 27 of their 49 games against the Detroit Pistons.

27-22record of the Brooklyn Nets · NBA 2012-13 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2012-13 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

14.343

80.9% of capacity

Barclays Center · Brooklyn

Scoring

194

combined points

17.2 below the season average (211.2)