Utah Jazz – Minnesota Timberwolves · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 16 January 2023

UTA126–125MIN

Is it worth watching?

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 23 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.

↑ MIN winsUTA wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Jordan Clarkson decided it, the Utah Jazz player with the most points (21, with 1 rebounds and 1 assists; +3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Mike Conley's (+9). 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 Minnesota Timberwolves 125-126 Utah Jazz (January 16, 2023) was hit by Jordan Clarkson: a free throw with 4.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Utah Jazz up 126-125. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Minnesota Timberwolves 125-126 Utah Jazz (January 16, 2023) was a 10-0 run by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first quarter (from 7:41 to 5:44), from 8-11 to 18-11. The Utah Jazz' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 5:17 to 4:21), from 11-18 to 18-18.

What were the keys of the last Minnesota Timberwolves vs Utah Jazz game?

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Play: Jordan Clarkson makes free throw 1 of 2.

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.

Jordan Clarkson decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 4 seconds left in the fourth quarter, 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 Clarkson 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.

16 January 2023 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401468817:656; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · UTA

Beasley · Clarkson · Kessler · Conley · Agbaji

Closing lineup · MIN

Edwards · Anderson · Russell · McDaniels · Prince

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UTA

Malik Beasley

33′ · +4

Jordan Clarkson

33′ · +3

Walker Kessler

31′ · 0

Mike Conley

30′ · +9

Jarred Vanderbilt

26′ · -2

Ochai Agbaji

31′ · +3

Collin Sexton

26′ · -1

Rudy Gay

10′ · -9

Talen Horton-Tucker

8′ · -5

Nickeil Alexander-Walker

10′ · +3

MIN

Anthony Edwards

36′ · -2

Kyle Anderson

34′ · -8

D'Angelo Russell

31′ · +3

Jaden McDaniels

21′ · +11

Rudy Gobert

5′ · 0

Naz Reid

22′ · -6

Taurean Prince

22′ · -2

Austin Rivers

27′ · -4

Jaylen Nowell

22′ · +2

Luka Garza

11′ · -3

Nathan Knight

9′ · +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 MIN.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Utah Jazz

Beasley, Vanderbilt, Kessler, Conley, and Clarkson played 9.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Agbaji, Kessler, Conley, and Clarkson played 6.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Beasley, Sexton, Vanderbilt, Alexander-Walker, and Agbaji played 4.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Russell, Reid, Edwards, McDaniels, and Anderson played 7.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Russell, Edwards, McDaniels, Gobert, and Anderson played 5.0 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Prince, Nowell, Edwards, Knight, and Rivers played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.

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Utah Jazz

Sexton, Agbaji, Kessler, Conley, and Clarkson played 4.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Beasley, Sexton, Vanderbilt, Horton-Tucker, and Clarkson played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Sexton, Agbaji, Kessler, Gay, and Conley played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Sexton, Vanderbilt, Alexander-Walker, Agbaji, and Gay played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Sexton, Vanderbilt, Agbaji, and Clarkson played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Beasley, Sexton, Horton-Tucker, Agbaji, and Kessler played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Horton-Tucker, Agbaji, Kessler, Gay, and Conley played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Sexton, Vanderbilt, Agbaji, Gay, and Clarkson played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Beasley, Alexander-Walker, Kessler, Conley, and Clarkson played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Sexton, Agbaji, Kessler, Gay, and Clarkson played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Beasley, Vanderbilt, Alexander-Walker, Conley, and Clarkson played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Horton-Tucker, Agbaji, Kessler, and Conley played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Sexton, Vanderbilt, Conley, and Clarkson played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Russell, Prince, Nowell, Garza, and Rivers played 3.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Russell, Nowell, Knight, Rivers, and Anderson played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Prince, Edwards, Garza, Rivers, and Anderson played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Russell, Reid, Edwards, Rivers, and Anderson played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Russell, Prince, Edwards, Garza, and Anderson played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Russell, Prince, Nowell, Reid, and Rivers played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Nowell, Reid, Edwards, McDaniels, and Anderson played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Prince, Reid, Edwards, Rivers, and Anderson played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Prince, Nowell, Garza, Rivers, and Anderson played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Russell, Nowell, McDaniels, Knight, and Rivers played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Nowell, Reid, Edwards, Rivers, and Anderson played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Russell, Prince, Reid, Edwards, and Anderson played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Russell, Prince, Reid, Edwards, and McDaniels played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Russell, Edwards, McDaniels, Rivers, and Anderson played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Nowell, Edwards, McDaniels, Garza, and Anderson played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Prince, Nowell, Reid, Edwards, and Rivers played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 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.

Anthony Edwards covered 4.17 km, more than anyone in the game.

Mike Conley touched the ball 71 times, a game high.
Mike Conley made 62 passes, a game high.
Walker Kessler defended 9 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 4.
Walker Kessler had 28 rebound chances, a game high.

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Utah Jazz

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Ochai Agbaji	4.04	7.1	37	25
Jordan Clarkson	3.88	6.5	55	33
Walker Kessler	3.85	6.8	50	31
Malik Beasley	3.77	6.4	44	29
Mike Conley	3.59	6.5	71	62
Jarred Vanderbilt	3.30	7.2	33	21
Collin Sexton	2.94	6.3	45	30
Nickeil Alexander-Walker	1.35	7.5	13	7
Rudy Gay	1.27	6.8	22	18
Talen Horton-Tucker	1.03	7.1	17	9

Minnesota Timberwolves

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Anthony Edwards	4.17	6.4	70	40
Kyle Anderson	3.83	6.3	70	56
D'Angelo Russell	3.54	6.4	70	52
Austin Rivers	3.15	6.4	33	25
Jaylen Nowell	2.69	6.8	34

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.
Jarred Vanderbilt deflected 2.2 passes per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 44 of 382 in the league.
Jordan Clarkson recovered 0.7 loose balls per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 52 of 382 in the league.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Rudy Gobert contested 10.1 shots per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 14 of 382 in the league.
Taurean Prince drew 0.19 charges per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 23 of 382 in the league.
Anthony Edwards deflected 2.6 passes per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 24 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 Minnesota Timberwolves have won 51 of their 116 games against the Utah Jazz.

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Game context

Attendance

16.477

91.4% of capacity

Target Center · Minneapolis

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.

20 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors