Brooklyn Nets – Cleveland Cavaliers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 25 November 2019

BKN108–106CLE

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 90% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 46 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.

↑ CLE winsBKN wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Spencer Dinwiddie decided it, the Brooklyn Nets player with the most points (23, with 1 rebounds and 9 assists; -1 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Taurean Prince'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 Cleveland Cavaliers 106-108 Brooklyn Nets (November 25, 2019) was hit by Spencer Dinwiddie: a jump shot with 1.8 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Brooklyn Nets up 108-106. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Cleveland Cavaliers 106-108 Brooklyn Nets (November 25, 2019) was a 9-0 run by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the fourth quarter (from 11:19 to 9:08), from 75-83 to 84-83. The Brooklyn Nets' best was a 7-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 8:44 to 7:54), from 83-84 to 90-84.

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Play: Spencer Dinwiddie makes 22-foot two point 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.

Spencer Dinwiddie decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 1.8 seconds left in the fourth quarter, 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 Dinwiddie 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.

25 November 2019 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401160882:656; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2019-20 regular season, not this game.

Brooklyn Nets

Jarrett Allen contested 14.4 shots per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 4 of 352 in the league.
Taurean Prince drew 0.16 charges per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 30 of 352 in the league.
Joe Harris contested 8.0 shots per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 64 of 352 in the league.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Tristan Thompson contested 10.6 shots per game over his 57 games.
He ranks 24 of 352 in the league.
Cedi Osman drew 0.12 charges per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 46 of 352 in the league.
Larry Nance Jr. recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 56 games.
He ranks 56 of 352 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 Cleveland Cavaliers have won 30 of their 48 games against the Brooklyn Nets.

30-18record of the Cleveland Cavaliers · 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

17.143

88.2% of capacity

Rocket Arena · Cleveland

Scoring

214

combined points

9.6 below the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

29 calls reviewed2 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Shooting · 01:10.0

Jarrett Allen → Tristan Thompson

Allen (BKN) makes contact with Thompson's (CLE) right forearm and affects his put-back attempt.

Foul: Loose Ball · 01:10.0

Tristan Thompson → Jarrett Allen

Thompson (CLE) leverages himself with Allen's (BKN) right shoulder during rebounding.