Sacramento Kings – Detroit Pistons · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 19 January 2019

SAC103–101DET

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It was more exciting than 73% of NBA games since 2017

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.

↑ DET winsSAC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Buddy Hield decided it, the Sacramento Kings player with the most points (35, with 9 rebounds and 3 assists; +10 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Willie Cauley-Stein's (+13). 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 101-103 Sacramento Kings (January 19, 2019) was hit by Buddy Hield: a three-pointer with 0.5 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Sacramento Kings up 103-101. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Detroit Pistons 101-103 Sacramento Kings (January 19, 2019) was a 10-0 run by the Detroit Pistons in the second quarter (from 11:21 to 8:25), from 30-26 to 40-26. The Sacramento Kings' best was a 9-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 5:15 to 2:51), from 83-93 to 92-93.

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Play: Buddy Hield makes 27-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.

Buddy Hield decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.5 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 Hield 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 January 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401071356:677; 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.

Sacramento Kings

De'Aaron Fox recovered 1.5 loose balls per game over his 81 games.
He ranks 18 of 380 in the league.
Nemanja Bjelica contested 9.7 shots per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 35 of 380 in the league.
Bogdan Bogdanović deflected 2.3 passes per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 40 of 380 in the league.

Detroit Pistons

Blake Griffin drew 0.40 charges per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 2 of 380 in the league.
Jon Leuer drew 0.10 charges per game over his 39 games.
He ranks 51 of 380 in the league.
Reggie Jackson drew 0.09 charges per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 58 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 Detroit Pistons have won 45 of their 80 games against the Sacramento Kings.

45-35record of the Detroit Pistons · NBA 1985-86 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1985-86 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

15.377

75.6% of capacity

Little Caesars Arena · Detroit

Scoring

204

combined points

18.4 below the season average (222.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

27 calls reviewed2 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Offensive · 01:21.3

Zaza Pachulia → Iman Shumpert

Pachulia (DET) firms up on his left leg in legal screening position as he absorbs the contact from the front of Shumpert's (SAC) left shoulder during the screen.

Stoppage: Out-of-Bounds · 01:52.9

Blake Griffin → Kings

Griffin's (DET) left foot steps out-of-bounds along the baseline and he fails to re-establish himself inbounds prior to making contact with the ball.