Utah Jazz – Oklahoma City Thunder · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 28 December 2020

UTA110–109OKC

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Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 91% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 39 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.

↑ OKC winsUTA wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Bojan Bogdanovic decided it, the Utah Jazz player with the most points (23, with 3 rebounds and 1 assists; -3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jordan Clarkson's (+5). 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 Oklahoma City Thunder 109-110 Utah Jazz (December 28, 2020) was hit by Donovan Mitchell: a jump shot with 7.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Utah Jazz up 110-109. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Oklahoma City Thunder 109-110 Utah Jazz (December 28, 2020) was a 11-0 run by the Utah Jazz in the fourth quarter (from 7:19 to 4:33), from 93-100 to 104-100. The Oklahoma City Thunder' best was a 10-0 run in the second quarter (from 7:51 to 6:09), from 29-33 to 39-33.

What were the keys of the last Oklahoma City Thunder vs Utah Jazz game?

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Play: Donovan Mitchell makes 2-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.

Donovan Mitchell decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 7 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 Mitchell 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.

28 December 2020 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401267203:613; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · UTA

Gobert · Mitchell · Bogdanovic · O'Neale · Conley

Closing lineup · OKC

Gilgeous-Alexander · Bazley · Dort · Horford · Hill

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UTA

Rudy Gobert

37′ · +5

Donovan Mitchell

35′ · -4

Bojan Bogdanovic

35′ · -3

Royce O'Neale

34′ · +1

Mike Conley

32′ · +1

Joe Ingles

20′ · 0

Derrick Favors

11′ · -4

Jordan Clarkson

26′ · +5

Georges Niang

8′ · -1

Miye Oni

2′ · +5

OKC

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

36′ · +4

Darius Bazley

33′ · -5

Luguentz Dort

32′ · +3

Al Horford

29′ · +7

George Hill

25′ · +6

Hamidou Diallo

20′ · -3

Mike Muscala

19′ · -8

Theo Maledon

20′ · -8

Kenrich Williams

11′ · -4

Aleksej Pokusevski

14′ · +3

Each bar is a stint on the floor (source: NBA). The number is minutes played and the team's +/− with him on the court. UTA and OKC.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Utah Jazz

O'Neale, Mitchell, Conley, Bogdanovic, and Gobert played 15.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
O'Neale, Mitchell, Bogdanovic, Gobert, and Clarkson played 7.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Niang, Conley, Gobert, Clarkson, and Ingles played 4.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 11 points.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Gilgeous-Alexander, Bazley, Dort, Horford, and Hill played 23.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Diallo, Williams, Maledon, Pokusevski, and Muscala played 7.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Bazley, Maledon, and Muscala played 5.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

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Utah Jazz

O'Neale, Mitchell, Conley, Gobert, and Ingles played 3.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Conley, Bogdanovic, Gobert, Clarkson, and Ingles played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
O'Neale, Mitchell, Favors, Bogdanovic, and Ingles played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
O'Neale, Mitchell, Favors, Bogdanovic, and Clarkson played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Niang, Conley, Favors, Clarkson, and Ingles played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Niang, Oni, Conley, Gobert, and Clarkson played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Mitchell, Favors, Bogdanovic, Clarkson, and Ingles played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
O'Neale, Mitchell, Favors, Clarkson, and Ingles played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Williams, Bazley, Dort, Maledon, and Horford played 3.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Maledon, Pokusevski, and Muscala played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Dort, Pokusevski, and Muscala played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Bazley, Dort, and Muscala played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Gilgeous-Alexander, Dort, Pokusevski, Horford, and Hill played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

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The lineups come from the NBA's official rotation: who was on the floor and when. Each lineup's plus-minus is worked out from every player's stints and is only shown when they all add up with each other and with the final score.

This is how the NBA's cameras measured the players in this game.

Donovan Mitchell touched the ball 83 times, a game high.
Mike Conley made 62 passes, a game high.
Rudy Gobert defended 11 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 7.
Darius Bazley had 16 rebound chances, a game high.

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Utah Jazz

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Bojan Bogdanovic	4.30	7.0	62	40
Royce O'Neale	4.18	6.9	65	60
Rudy Gobert	4.10	6.2	44	33
Donovan Mitchell	3.96	6.4	83	51
Mike Conley	3.93	6.8	81	62
Jordan Clarkson	3.33	7.2	33	16
Joe Ingles	2.49	7.0	32	23
Derrick Favors	1.40	7.1	16	12
Georges Niang	1.16	7.7	20	18
Miye Oni	0.21	6.5	1	1

Oklahoma City Thunder

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	4.30	6.6	81	50
Darius Bazley	4.07	6.9	45	33
Luguentz Dort	3.67	6.5	26	11
Al Horford	3.14	6.0	49	36
George Hill	2.98	6.7	45

The figures come from the NBA's optical tracking (NBA.com) for this game; speed is each player's average while on the floor.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2020-21 regular season, not this game.

Utah Jazz

Rudy Gobert defended 8.3 shots at the rim per game over his 71 games, and opponents made 14 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 1 of 143 in the league.
Donovan Mitchell recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 53 games.
He ranks 1 of 364 in the league.
Derrick Favors contested 8.3 shots per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 41 of 364 in the league.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Darius Bazley contested 9.0 shots per game over his 55 games.
He ranks 27 of 364 in the league.
Mike Muscala contested 8.5 shots per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 38 of 364 in the league.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander contested 8.2 shots per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 47 of 364 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 Oklahoma City Thunder have won 49 of their 75 games against the Utah Jazz.

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Game context

Scoring

219

combined points

5.2 below the season average (224.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

25 calls reviewed2 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: Inbound Turnover · 01:04.5

Donovan Mitchell → Thunder

After the made basket, Mitchell (UTA) never establishes himself out of bounds prior to the entry pass.

01:36

Mike Conley → Al Horford

Conley (UTA) is airborne when Horford (OKC) makes clean ball contact that causes Conley to temporarily fumble the ball. There should not be a jump ball whistle after Conley regains possession and comes back to the ground.