Utah Jazz – Sacramento Kings · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 30 December 2022

UTA125–126SAC

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 89% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 16 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 SAC leads and falls when UTA does.

This is how the game was decided.

Kevin Huerter decided it, the Sacramento Kings player with the most points (30, with 2 rebounds and 2 assists; +5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was De'Aaron Fox's (+8). 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 Sacramento Kings 126-125 Utah Jazz (December 30, 2022) was hit by Kevin Huerter: a three-pointer with 9.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Sacramento Kings up 126-125. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Sacramento Kings 126-125 Utah Jazz (December 30, 2022) was a 10-0 run by the Sacramento Kings in the fourth quarter (from 5:10 to 3:14), from 109-111 to 119-111. The Utah Jazz' best was a 10-0 run between the third quarter and the fourth quarter, from 84-91 to 94-91.

With 30 points, this is Kevin Huerter's highest-scoring game of the 2022‑23 regular season.

What were the keys of the last Sacramento Kings vs Utah Jazz game?

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Play: Kevin Huerter makes 25-foot three point jumper (Keegan Murray 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.

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

Kevin Huerter decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 9 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 Huerter 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.

30 December 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401468692:659; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · UTA

Clarkson · Markkanen · Conley · Olynyk · Sexton

Closing lineup · SAC

Fox · Sabonis · Barnes · Huerter · Murray

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UTA

Jordan Clarkson

35′ · -5

Lauri Markkanen

34′ · -1

Mike Conley

30′ · -1

Kelly Olynyk

29′ · -4

Jarred Vanderbilt

24′ · -16

Collin Sexton

29′ · +4

Walker Kessler

24′ · +17

Rudy Gay

12′ · +5

Malik Beasley

23′ · -4

SAC

De'Aaron Fox

39′ · +8

Domantas Sabonis

37′ · +3

Harrison Barnes

32′ · 0

Kevin Huerter

30′ · +5

Keegan Murray

27′ · -2

Davion Mitchell

23′ · -2

Malik Monk

19′ · -1

Trey Lyles

19′ · 0

Richaun Holmes

11′ · -2

KZ Okpala

3′ · -4

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 SAC.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Utah Jazz

Markkanen, Vanderbilt, Conley, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 10.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 10 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Sexton, Vanderbilt, and Clarkson played 5.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Sexton, Kessler, Gay, and Conley played 4.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Sacramento Kings

Sabonis, Fox, Huerter, Murray, and Barnes played 17.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Holmes, Lyles, Fox, Monk, and Mitchell played 7.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Sabonis, Fox, Huerter, Mitchell, and Barnes played 4.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.

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Utah Jazz

Markkanen, Sexton, Kessler, Conley, and Olynyk played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Beasley, Sexton, Vanderbilt, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 3.7 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Markkanen, Kessler, Conley, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 3.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Markkanen, Sexton, Kessler, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Sexton, Kessler, and Gay played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Kessler, Gay, Conley, and Clarkson played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Beasley, Vanderbilt, Conley, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Markkanen, Sexton, Vanderbilt, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Beasley, Markkanen, Sexton, Kessler, and Conley played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Markkanen, Sexton, Kessler, Gay, and Clarkson played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Beasley, Vanderbilt, Gay, Conley, and Clarkson played 1.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Sacramento Kings

Holmes, Lyles, Fox, Monk, and Okpala played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Sabonis, Monk, Mitchell, Murray, and Barnes played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Lyles, Sabonis, Fox, Huerter, and Murray played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Sabonis, Huerter, Mitchell, Murray, and Barnes played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Lyles, Sabonis, Huerter, Mitchell, and Barnes played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Sabonis, Monk, Huerter, Mitchell, and Barnes played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Lyles, Sabonis, Fox, Monk, and Mitchell played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Lyles, Sabonis, Fox, Monk, and Murray played 1.5 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.

De'Aaron Fox covered 4.73 km, more than anyone in the game.

Domantas Sabonis touched the ball 103 times, a game high.
Domantas Sabonis made 78 passes, a game high.
Domantas Sabonis had 19 rebound chances, a game high.

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Utah Jazz

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jordan Clarkson	4.17	6.7	57	37
Lauri Markkanen	4.14	6.7	58	28
Mike Conley	3.65	6.9	68	50
Kelly Olynyk	3.48	6.7	38	31
Collin Sexton	3.38	6.4	56	43
Jarred Vanderbilt	3.06	7.3	33	29
Walker Kessler	2.93	6.9	28	22
Malik Beasley	2.78	6.7	38	23
Rudy Gay	1.43	6.6	19	14

Sacramento Kings

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
De'Aaron Fox	4.73	6.8	92	63
Domantas Sabonis	4.42	6.6	103	78
Harrison Barnes	3.88	6.8	41	28
Kevin Huerter	3.65	6.8	38	19
Keegan Murray	3.41	7.0	33

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.

Utah Jazz

Walker Kessler defended 6.7 shots at the rim per game over his 74 games, and opponents made 13 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 3 of 149 in the league.
Lauri Markkanen defended 5.7 shots at the rim per game over his 66 games, and opponents made 12 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 5 of 149 in the league.
Kelly Olynyk drew 0.18 charges per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 25 of 382 in the league.

Sacramento Kings

De'Aaron Fox deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 18 of 382 in the league.
Domantas Sabonis contested 9.5 shots per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 18 of 382 in the league.
Davion Mitchell drew 0.19 charges per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 23 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 Sacramento Kings have won 61 of their 124 games against the Utah Jazz.

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Game context

Attendance

17.946

101.9% of capacity

Golden 1 Center · Sacramento

Scoring

251

combined points

21.6 above the season average (229.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

33 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors