Detroit Pistons – Charlotte Hornets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 27 February 2022

DET127–126CHA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 99% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 25 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.

↑ CHA winsDET wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Saddiq Bey decided it, the Detroit Pistons player with the most points (28, with 8 rebounds and 3 assists; +4 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Killian Hayes's (+7). 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 Charlotte Hornets 126-127 Detroit Pistons (February 27, 2022) was hit by Kelly Olynyk: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in overtime, putting the Detroit Pistons up 127-126. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Charlotte Hornets 126-127 Detroit Pistons (February 27, 2022) was a 9-0 run by the Charlotte Hornets in the third quarter (from 5:23 to 3:53), from 69-74 to 78-74. The Detroit Pistons' best was a 7-0 run in the second quarter (from 3:12 to 1:36), from 48-49 to 55-49.

▸See where these figures come from

Play: Kelly Olynyk makes 14-foot two point shot (Killian Hayes assists).

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.

Kelly Olynyk decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of overtime 1, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Olynyk 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.

27 February 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401360734:783; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2021-22 regular season, not this game.

Detroit Pistons

Isaiah Stewart contested 11.7 shots per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 6 of 386 in the league.
Cade Cunningham recovered 1.0 loose balls per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 16 of 386 in the league.
Killian Hayes deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 66 games.
He ranks 23 of 386 in the league.

Charlotte Hornets

LaMelo Ball recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 9 of 386 in the league.
Cody Martin drew 0.27 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 9 of 386 in the league.
Montrezl Harrell drew 0.17 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 24 of 386 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 Charlotte Hornets have won 37 of their 78 games against the Detroit Pistons.

37-41record of the Charlotte Hornets · NBA 2004-05 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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See the full head-to-head in the Analyst

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2004-05 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

15.348

80.5% of capacity

Spectrum Center · Charlotte

Scoring

253

combined points

31.8 above the season average (221.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

28 calls reviewed4 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Shooting · 00:05.2

Cade Cunningham → P.J. Washington

Cunningham (DET) makes contact to Washington's (CHA) arm that affects his putback shot attempt.

Foul: Personal · 00:09.7

LaMelo Ball → Cade Cunningham

Ball (CHA) reaches in and makes clean contact with the ball and any ensuing contact with Cunningham (DET) is marginal.

Turnover: Traveling · 01:34.7

Jerami Grant → Hornets

Grant (DET) hops consecutively on the same foot upon gathering the ball.

Foul: Shooting · 01:44.3

P.J. Washington → Isaiah Stewart

Washington (CHA) makes contact to Stewart's (DET) wrist that affects his shot attempt.