LA Clippers – Detroit Pistons · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 14 April 2021

LAC100–98DET

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It was more exciting than 75% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 18 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.

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

This is how the game was decided.

Reggie Jackson decided it, the LA Clippers player with the most points (29, with 6 rebounds and 1 assists; +3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Amir Coffey's (+21). 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 98-100 LA Clippers (April 14, 2021) was hit by Reggie Jackson: a jump shot with 2.8 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the LA Clippers up 100-98. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Detroit Pistons 98-100 LA Clippers (April 14, 2021) was a 9-0 run by the LA Clippers in the first quarter (from 8:36 to 6:44), from 7-10 to 16-10. The Detroit Pistons' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 4:01 to 3:23), from 14-19 to 21-19.

With 29 points, this is Reggie Jackson's highest-scoring game of the 2020‑21 regular season.

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Play: Reggie Jackson makes 21-foot pullup jump 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.

It is compared by points with all his official NBA box scores in that scope; it is the same criterion the Analyst uses.

Reggie Jackson decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 2.8 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 Jackson 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.

14 April 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401307627:641; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · LAC

Kennard · Jackson · Mann · Coffey · Batum

Closing lineup · DET

Grant · Bey · Plumlee · Hayes · Jackson

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LAC

Luke Kennard

39′ · +2

Reggie Jackson

37′ · +3

Ivica Zubac

32′ · -3

Terance Mann

29′ · -5

Patrick Patterson

17′ · -9

Amir Coffey

28′ · +21

Nicolas Batum

27′ · -1

Rajon Rondo

17′ · 0

DeMarcus Cousins

15′ · 0

DET

Jerami Grant

36′ · -4

Saddiq Bey

35′ · -4

Cory Joseph

23′ · +9

Josh Jackson

21′ · +14

Mason Plumlee

21′ · -5

Hamidou Diallo

18′ · -2

Isaiah Stewart

22′ · +4

Killian Hayes

25′ · -11

Wayne Ellington

16′ · -7

Frank Jackson

18′ · -3

Jahlil Okafor

5′ · -1

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

LA Clippers

Zubac, Kennard, Mann, Patterson, and Jackson played 12.7 minutes together.
Kennard, Coffey, Rondo, Batum, and Cousins played 6.6 minutes together.
Zubac, Kennard, Mann, Batum, and Jackson played 4.7 minutes together.

The plus-minus of each LA Clippers lineup is not shown: its rotation stints do not add up with each other.

Detroit Pistons

Jackson, Bey, Joseph, Plumlee, and Grant played 9.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Diallo, Hayes, Stewart, Ellington, and Grant played 6.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Jackson, Hayes, Bey, Plumlee, and Grant played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 11 points.

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LA Clippers

Zubac, Kennard, Coffey, Mann, and Jackson played 4.5 minutes together.
Zubac, Kennard, Coffey, Patterson, and Jackson played 3.9 minutes together.
Coffey, Rondo, Batum, Cousins, and Jackson played 3.6 minutes together.
Zubac, Kennard, Coffey, Batum, and Jackson played 3.1 minutes together.
Coffey, Mann, Rondo, Batum, and Cousins played 3.0 minutes together.
Kennard, Mann, Rondo, Batum, and Cousins played 1.4 minutes together.
Zubac, Mann, Rondo, Batum, and Jackson played 1.4 minutes together.
Zubac, Coffey, Rondo, Batum, and Jackson played 1.4 minutes together.

Detroit Pistons

Okafor, Jackson, Hayes, Bey, and Ellington played 3.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Diallo, Bey, Stewart, Joseph, and Grant played 3.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Diallo, Hayes, Bey, Stewart, and Ellington played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Diallo, Bey, Joseph, Plumlee, and Grant played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Jackson, Bey, Stewart, Joseph, and Grant played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Jackson, Jackson, Hayes, Bey, and Stewart played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Okafor, Jackson, Jackson, Bey, and Joseph played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Jackson, Hayes, Bey, Stewart, and Ellington played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Diallo, Hayes, Ellington, Plumlee, and Grant played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Jackson, Jackson, Hayes, Plumlee, and Grant played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Jackson, Jackson, Joseph, Plumlee, and Grant played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Jackson, Jackson, Stewart, Joseph, and Grant played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 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.

Luke Kennard covered 4.68 km, more than anyone in the game.

Reggie Jackson touched the ball 71 times, a game high.
Killian Hayes made 50 passes, a game high.
Isaiah Stewart defended 8 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 4.
Ivica Zubac had 24 rebound chances, a game high.

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LA Clippers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Luke Kennard	4.68	6.8	58	34
Reggie Jackson	4.18	6.3	71	42
Ivica Zubac	3.73	6.7	55	40
Terance Mann	3.46	6.8	33	20
Amir Coffey	3.17	6.2	30	23
Nicolas Batum	3.12	6.4	39	30
Patrick Patterson	1.93	6.6	20	16
Rajon Rondo	1.83	5.9	48	38
DeMarcus Cousins	1.63	5.8	32	19

Detroit Pistons

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jerami Grant	4.17	6.5	70	38
Saddiq Bey	4.15	6.6	42	26
Killian Hayes	2.93	6.4	64	50
Cory Joseph	2.90	7.2	51	42
Isaiah Stewart	2.61	6.6	31	23

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.

LA Clippers

DeMarcus Cousins drew 0.24 charges per game over his 41 games.
He ranks 16 of 364 in the league.
Ivica Zubac defended 4.9 shots at the rim per game over his 71 games, and opponents made 10 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 7 of 143 in the league.
Nicolas Batum deflected 2.1 passes per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 66 of 364 in the league.

Detroit Pistons

Isaiah Stewart contested 10.7 shots per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 12 of 364 in the league.
Jerami Grant drew 0.11 charges per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 54 of 364 in the league.
Josh Jackson drew 0.10 charges per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 59 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 Detroit Pistons have won 42 of their 80 games against the LA Clippers.

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Game context

Attendance

750

3.7% of capacity

Little Caesars Arena · Detroit

Scoring

198

combined points

26.2 below the season average (224.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

17 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: 3 Second Violation · 01:01.0

Ivica Zubac → Pistons

Zubac (LAC) fails to fully clear the lane and is in the lane for longer than three seconds.