Brooklyn Nets – Portland Trail Blazers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 17 November 2022

BKN109–107POR

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 93% of NBA games since 2017

· 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.

↑ POR winsBKN wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Kevin Durant decided it, the Brooklyn Nets player with the most points (35, with 8 rebounds and 3 assists; +15 with him on the floor). 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 Portland Trail Blazers 107-109 Brooklyn Nets (November 17, 2022) was hit by Royce O'Neale: a putback with 0.7 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Brooklyn Nets up 109-107. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Portland Trail Blazers 107-109 Brooklyn Nets (November 17, 2022) was a 14-0 run by the Brooklyn Nets in the third quarter (from 3:00 to 4.0 s), from 71-82 to 85-82. The Portland Trail Blazers' best was a 10-0 run between the second quarter and the third quarter, from 54-57 to 64-57.

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Play: Royce O'Neale makes tip 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.

Royce O'Neale decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.7 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 O'Neale 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.

17 November 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401468376:716; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · BKN

Durant · O'Neale · Harris · Claxton · Watanabe

Closing lineup · POR

Lillard · Grant · Hart · Simons · Winslow

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BKN

Kevin Durant

39′ · +15

Royce O'Neale

37′ · -1

Joe Harris

33′ · +10

Nic Claxton

25′ · -16

Edmond Sumner

6′ · +4

Seth Curry

27′ · +5

Cam Thomas

7′ · -7

Yuta Watanabe

29′ · -10

Ben Simmons

32′ · +13

Patty Mills

4′ · -3

POR

Damian Lillard

38′ · -2

Jerami Grant

37′ · -8

Josh Hart

30′ · +1

Anfernee Simons

29′ · -16

Jusuf Nurkic

25′ · +5

Justise Winslow

28′ · +10

Drew Eubanks

18′ · -4

Shaedon Sharpe

21′ · 0

Nassir Little

13′ · +7

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Brooklyn Nets

O'Neale, Simmons, Watanabe, Durant, and Curry played 6.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
O'Neale, Sumner, Claxton, Durant, and Harris played 6.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
O'Neale, Watanabe, Claxton, Curry, and Harris played 5.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 10 points.

Portland Trail Blazers

Hart, Simons, Lillard, Grant, and Nurkic played 9.4 minutes together.
Winslow, Hart, Lillard, Grant, and Nurkic played 5.3 minutes together.
Winslow, Hart, Simons, Lillard, and Grant played 5.0 minutes together.

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

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Brooklyn Nets

O'Neale, Simmons, Watanabe, Durant, and Harris played 4.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Simmons, Watanabe, Durant, Curry, and Harris played 3.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Simmons, Claxton, Durant, Curry, and Harris played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Simmons, Watanabe, Thomas, Durant, and Curry played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
O'Neale, Simmons, Watanabe, Claxton, and Durant played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
O'Neale, Simmons, Thomas, Durant, and Harris played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
O'Neale, Simmons, Claxton, Mills, and Harris played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
O'Neale, Simmons, Durant, Curry, and Harris played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
O'Neale, Simmons, Claxton, Durant, and Harris played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
O'Neale, Simmons, Watanabe, Mills, and Harris played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
O'Neale, Watanabe, Claxton, Durant, and Curry played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
O'Neale, Claxton, Thomas, Durant, and Curry played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.

Portland Trail Blazers

Hart, Simons, Eubanks, Lillard, and Grant played 4.4 minutes together.
Winslow, Little, Sharpe, Lillard, and Nurkic played 3.8 minutes together.
Hart, Eubanks, Sharpe, Lillard, and Grant played 3.3 minutes together.
Winslow, Simons, Little, Sharpe, and Nurkic played 3.2 minutes together.
Winslow, Simons, Eubanks, Little, and Sharpe played 3.1 minutes together.
Winslow, Hart, Eubanks, Lillard, and Grant played 2.3 minutes together.
Winslow, Sharpe, Lillard, Grant, and Nurkic played 2.1 minutes together.
Winslow, Simons, Eubanks, Sharpe, and Grant played 1.5 minutes together.
Winslow, Eubanks, Little, Sharpe, and Grant played 1.4 minutes together.
Simons, Eubanks, Little, Sharpe, and Grant played 1.2 minutes together.

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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.

Royce O'Neale covered 4.54 km, more than anyone in the game.

Damian Lillard touched the ball 111 times, a game high.
Royce O'Neale made 75 passes, a game high.
Jusuf Nurkić defended 10 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 8.

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Brooklyn Nets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Royce O'Neale	4.54	6.6	96	75
Kevin Durant	4.28	6.0	81	47
Joe Harris	4.23	7.0	38	22
Ben Simmons	3.65	6.2	73	64
Yuta Watanabe	3.65	6.9	33	21
Nic Claxton	3.30	7.2	40	29
Seth Curry	3.06	6.1	45	37
Cam Thomas	0.92	7.0	14	10
Edmond Sumner	0.80	7.7	6	5
Patty Mills	0.51	7.7	10	7

Portland Trail Blazers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Damian Lillard	4.36	6.3	111	74
Jerami Grant	4.33	6.4	49	34
Anfernee Simons	3.75	7.0	69	46
Josh Hart	3.68	6.7	48	40
Justise Winslow	3.52	6.8	40

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 2022-23 regular season, not this game.

Brooklyn Nets

Nic Claxton contested 12.1 shots per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 2 of 382 in the league.
Ben Simmons deflected 2.6 passes per game over his 42 games.
He ranks 22 of 382 in the league.
Kevin Durant defended 5.4 shots at the rim per game over his 47 games, and opponents made 9 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 11 of 149 in the league.

Portland Trail Blazers

Josh Hart recovered 0.9 loose balls per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 7 of 382 in the league.
Jusuf Nurkić contested 8.9 shots per game over his 52 games.
He ranks 23 of 382 in the league.
Jerami Grant drew 0.13 charges per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 40 of 382 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 Portland Trail Blazers have won 18 of their 28 games against the Brooklyn Nets.

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Game context

Attendance

19.393

99.9% of capacity

Moda Center · Portland

Scoring

216

combined points

13.4 below the season average (229.4)

⚖️ 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

Foul: Defense 3 Second · 01:13.0

Josh Hart → Nets

Hart (POR) is in the paint for longer than three seconds without imminently actively guarding an opponent.