Orlando Magic – Atlanta Hawks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 17 January 2024

ORL104–106ATL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 96% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 52 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.

↑ ATL winsORL wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Dejounte Murray decided it, the Atlanta Hawks player with the most points (26, with 5 rebounds and 5 assists; -2 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jalen Johnson'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 Atlanta Hawks 106-104 Orlando Magic (January 17, 2024) was hit by Dejounte Murray: a jump shot with 0.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Atlanta Hawks up 106-104. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Atlanta Hawks 106-104 Orlando Magic (January 17, 2024) was a 10-0 run by the Orlando Magic in the second quarter (from 8:55 to 6:42), from 30-34 to 40-34. The Atlanta Hawks' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 3:57 to 3:07), from 13-19 to 20-19.

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Play: Dejounte Murray makes 17-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.

Dejounte Murray decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.1 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 Murray 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 January 2024 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401585198:631; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · ORL

Banchero · Suggs · Fultz · Ingles · Carter

Closing lineup · ATL

Young · Johnson · Murray · Bey · Okongwu

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ORL

Paolo Banchero

38′ · -10

Chuma Okeke

30′ · -8

Jalen Suggs

28′ · -1

Goga Bitadze

24′ · -2

Caleb Houstan

14′ · +6

Markelle Fultz

30′ · -8

Joe Ingles

20′ · +3

Wendell Carter Jr.

24′ · 0

Cole Anthony

22′ · +2

Jonathan Isaac

10′ · +8

Anthony Black

0′ · 0

ATL

Trae Young

39′ · +2

Jalen Johnson

38′ · +9

Dejounte Murray

36′ · -2

Saddiq Bey

35′ · -10

Clint Capela

27′ · -4

Onyeka Okongwu

27′ · +7

Bogdan Bogdanovic

24′ · +4

Garrison Mathews

13′ · +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. ORL and ATL.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Orlando Magic

Bitadze, Okeke, Suggs, Banchero, and Houstan played 13.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Fultz, Isaac, Carter, Anthony, and Ingles played 9.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Fultz, Carter, Anthony, Banchero, and Ingles played 7.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.

Atlanta Hawks

Murray, Young, Bey, Johnson, and Capela played 19.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Young, Mathews, Okongwu, Johnson, and Bogdanovic played 11.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Murray, Okongwu, Bey, Capela, and Bogdanovic played 6.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

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Orlando Magic

Fultz, Bitadze, Okeke, Suggs, and Banchero played 5.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Bitadze, Okeke, Anthony, Suggs, and Banchero played 3.9 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Fultz, Carter, Okeke, Suggs, and Banchero played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Fultz, Carter, Okeke, Banchero, and Ingles played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Fultz, Carter, Okeke, Anthony, and Banchero played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Fultz, Carter, Suggs, Banchero, and Ingles played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Atlanta Hawks

Murray, Young, Okongwu, Bey, and Johnson played 4.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Murray, Okongwu, Bey, Johnson, and Bogdanovic played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Murray, Young, Bey, Capela, and Bogdanovic played 1.0 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.

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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.

Jalen Johnson covered 4.39 km, more than anyone in the game.

Trae Young touched the ball 87 times, a game high.
Jalen Johnson made 60 passes, a game high.
Wendell Carter Jr. defended 10 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 5.

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Orlando Magic

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Paolo Banchero	4.26	6.3	82	47
Markelle Fultz	3.83	7.1	60	48
Chuma Okeke	3.68	7.0	34	24
Jalen Suggs	3.27	6.7	50	37
Cole Anthony	2.90	7.4	43	30
Goga Bitadze	2.78	6.6	42	31
Wendell Carter Jr.	2.70	6.4	36	26
Joe Ingles	2.24	6.2	34	25
Caleb Houstan	1.80	7.5	15	8
Jonathan Isaac	1.26	7.3	13	11
Anthony Black	0.02	4.2	0	0

Atlanta Hawks

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jalen Johnson	4.39	6.5	76	60
Trae Young	4.28	6.2	87	58
Dejounte Murray	4.26	6.7	70	45
Saddiq Bey	4.02	6.5	32	22
Onyeka Okongwu	3.15	6.6	35

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 2023-24 regular season, not this game.

Orlando Magic

Jalen Suggs deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 23 of 373 in the league.
Wendell Carter Jr. contested 6.7 shots per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 41 of 373 in the league.
Paolo Banchero contested 6.0 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 64 of 373 in the league.

Atlanta Hawks

Dejounte Murray deflected 3.0 passes per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 8 of 373 in the league.
Garrison Mathews drew 0.25 charges per game over his 60 games.
He ranks 9 of 373 in the league.
Trae Young drew 0.22 charges per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 11 of 373 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 Atlanta Hawks have won 83 of their 158 games against the Orlando Magic.

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Game context

Attendance

14.541

85.3% of capacity

State Farm Arena · Atlanta

Scoring

210

combined points

18.4 below the season average (228.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

17 calls reviewed2 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Personal · 00:42

Trae Young → Jalen Suggs

Young (ATL) swipes down and initiates contact with Suggs' (ORL) face, prior to the contact with the ball during his steal attempt.

Foul: Shooting · 01:47.4

Wendell Carter Jr. → Jalen Johnson

Carter Jr.'s (ORL) hand slides off the ball and onto Johnson's (ATL) arm, which affects Johnson's play at the basket.