Indiana Pacers – Chicago Bulls · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 January 2019

IND119–116CHI

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 96% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 38 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.

↑ CHI winsIND wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Victor Oladipo decided it, the Indiana Pacers player with the most points (36, with 7 rebounds and 4 assists; -7 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Domantas Sabonis'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 Chicago Bulls 116-119 Indiana Pacers (January 4, 2019) was hit by Victor Oladipo: a three-pointer with 1.2 s left in overtime, putting the Indiana Pacers up 119-116. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Chicago Bulls 116-119 Indiana Pacers (January 4, 2019) was a 10-0 run by the Chicago Bulls in the first quarter (from 10:23 to 9:06), from 3-2 to 13-2. The Indiana Pacers' best was a 8-0 run in the second quarter (from 9:53 to 7:42), from 24-36 to 32-36.

▸See where these figures come from

Play: Victor Oladipo makes 28-foot jump bank shot.

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.

Victor Oladipo decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 1.2 seconds left in overtime 1, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 4 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Oladipo decided

▸See where these figures come from

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 January 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401071245:683; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2018-19 regular season, not this game.

Indiana Pacers

Victor Oladipo recovered 1.8 loose balls per game over his 36 games.
He ranks 3 of 380 in the league.
Thaddeus Young deflected 3.3 passes per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 5 of 380 in the league.
Myles Turner contested 12.1 shots per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 15 of 380 in the league.

Chicago Bulls

Kris Dunn deflected 3.2 passes per game over his 45 games.
He ranks 8 of 380 in the league.
Ryan Arcidiacono drew 0.20 charges per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 21 of 380 in the league.
Chandler Hutchison drew 0.19 charges per game over his 42 games.
He ranks 22 of 380 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 Chicago Bulls have won 113 of their 227 games against the Indiana Pacers.

113-114record of the Chicago Bulls · NBA 1976-77 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1976-77 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

21.284

101.8% of capacity

United Center · Chicago

Scoring

235

combined points

12.6 above the season average (222.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

42 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: Traveling · 00:20.2

Zach LaVine → Pacers

LaVine (CHI) moves his pivot foot.