Phoenix Suns – Atlanta Hawks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 March 2018

PHX112–113ATL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 92% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 29 times
· It stayed close for almost the whole game

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.

↑ ATL winsPHX wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Taurean Prince decided it, the Atlanta Hawks player with the most points (22, with 5 rebounds and 2 assists; -1 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Mike Muscala's (+14). 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 Atlanta Hawks 113-112 Phoenix Suns (March 4, 2018) was hit by Taurean Prince: a three-pointer with 8.6 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Atlanta Hawks up 113-112. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Atlanta Hawks 113-112 Phoenix Suns (March 4, 2018) was a 11-0 run by the Atlanta Hawks in the fourth quarter (from 5:56 to 3:26), from 95-102 to 106-102. The Phoenix Suns' best was a 11-0 run in the second quarter (from 7:13 to 5:10), from 33-40 to 44-40.

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Play: Taurean Prince makes 26-foot three pointer.

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.

Taurean Prince decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 8.6 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 Prince 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.

4 March 2018 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:400975689:672; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2017-18 regular season, not this game.

Phoenix Suns

Alex Len defended 5.2 shots at the rim per game over his 69 games, and opponents made 11 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 2 of 104 in the league.
Elfrid Payton recovered 1.6 loose balls per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 11 of 362 in the league.
Dragan Bender contested 10.6 shots per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 20 of 362 in the league.

Atlanta Hawks

Dennis Schröder drew 0.24 charges per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 10 of 362 in the league.
Malcolm Delaney drew 0.23 charges per game over his 52 games.
He ranks 14 of 362 in the league.
John Collins contested 10.0 shots per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 27 of 362 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 Atlanta Hawks have won 65 of their 142 games against the Phoenix Suns.

65-77record of the Atlanta Hawks · NBA 1968-69 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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See the full head-to-head in the Analyst

See where it comes from

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

15.166

89% of capacity

State Farm Arena · Atlanta

Scoring

225

combined points

12.3 above the season average (212.7)