Brooklyn Nets – Portland Trail Blazers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 17 January 2024

BKN103–105POR

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

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

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 38 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.

Jerami Grant decided it, the Portland Trail Blazers player with the most points (30, with 8 rebounds and 1 assists; +12 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 105-103 Brooklyn Nets (January 17, 2024) was hit by Anfernee Simons: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Portland Trail Blazers up 105-103. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Portland Trail Blazers 105-103 Brooklyn Nets (January 17, 2024) was a 14-0 run by the Brooklyn Nets in the third quarter (from 3:38 to 12.1 s), from 69-72 to 83-72. The Portland Trail Blazers' best was a 7-0 run between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 19-23 to 26-23.

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Play: Anfernee Simons makes 7-foot driving floating 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.

Anfernee Simons decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of 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 Simons 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:401585206:602; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · BKN

Bridges · Claxton · Johnson · Thomas · O'Neale

Closing lineup · POR

Grant · Brogdon · Reath · Camara · Badji

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BKN

Mikal Bridges

34′ · -3

Spencer Dinwiddie

32′ · +12

Nic Claxton

32′ · -4

Dorian Finney-Smith

32′ · -7

Cameron Johnson

27′ · +1

Cam Thomas

22′ · -1

Royce O'Neale

20′ · -3

Trendon Watford

8′ · -1

Dennis Smith Jr.

14′ · -14

Lonnie Walker IV

19′ · +10

POR

Anfernee Simons

39′ · +11

Jerami Grant

36′ · +12

Malcolm Brogdon

30′ · -2

Jabari Walker

30′ · -6

Duop Reath

25′ · +5

Scoot Henderson

23′ · -13

Toumani Camara

20′ · +5

Ibou Badji

13′ · +2

Matisse Thybulle

21′ · -3

Kris Murray

3′ · -1

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

Finney-Smith, Bridges, Claxton, Johnson, and Dinwiddie played 21.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Finney-Smith, Bridges, Walker, Johnson, and Dinwiddie played 5.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
O'Neale, Smith, Walker, Claxton, and Thomas played 4.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.

Portland Trail Blazers

Brogdon, Simons, Walker, Reath, and Grant played 13.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Simons, Thybulle, Camara, Reath, and Grant played 4.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Brogdon, Simons, Badji, Walker, and Grant played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.

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Brooklyn Nets

O'Neale, Walker, Claxton, Thomas, and Dinwiddie played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
O'Neale, Finney-Smith, Smith, Walker, and Thomas played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
O'Neale, Smith, Walker, Thomas, and Watford played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
O'Neale, Smith, Bridges, Thomas, and Watford played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
O'Neale, Bridges, Claxton, Thomas, and Watford played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
O'Neale, Finney-Smith, Smith, Bridges, and Thomas played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
O'Neale, Bridges, Thomas, Watford, and Dinwiddie played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

Portland Trail Blazers

Simons, Thybulle, Badji, Henderson, and Camara played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Simons, Henderson, Walker, Reath, and Grant played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Brogdon, Thybulle, Henderson, Walker, and Camara played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Simons, Thybulle, Henderson, Reath, and Grant played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Brogdon, Thybulle, Henderson, Murray, and Camara played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Brogdon, Thybulle, Badji, Henderson, and Camara played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Brogdon, Simons, Henderson, Walker, and Grant played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Simons, Badji, Henderson, Camara, and Grant played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Brogdon, Simons, Walker, Camara, and Grant played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Simons, Badji, Henderson, Walker, and Grant played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

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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.

Anfernee Simons covered 4.33 km, more than anyone in the game.

Anfernee Simons touched the ball 76 times, a game high.
Nic Claxton defended 8 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 3.
Nic Claxton had 17 rebound chances, a game high.

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Brooklyn Nets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Mikal Bridges	3.99	6.6	51	28
Nic Claxton	3.68	6.4	46	34
Dorian Finney-Smith	3.65	6.4	43	36
Spencer Dinwiddie	3.36	5.8	51	39
Cameron Johnson	3.22	6.7	28	19
Cam Thomas	2.53	6.5	33	23
Royce O'Neale	2.33	6.4	36	31
Lonnie Walker IV	1.98	5.9	21	9
Dennis Smith Jr.	1.64	6.6	30	24
Trendon Watford	0.97	6.7	15	11

Portland Trail Blazers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Anfernee Simons	4.33	6.3	76	52
Jerami Grant	4.10	6.4	61	33
Jabari Walker	3.62	6.7	31	26
Malcolm Brogdon	3.36	6.2	68	52
Duop Reath	3.06	6.7	38

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.

Brooklyn Nets

Nic Claxton contested 10.9 shots per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 7 of 373 in the league.
Dennis Smith Jr. deflected 2.4 passes per game over his 54 games.
He ranks 26 of 373 in the league.
Trendon Watford recovered 0.7 loose balls per game over his 51 games.
He ranks 77 of 373 in the league.

Portland Trail Blazers

Matisse Thybulle deflected 3.4 passes per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 4 of 373 in the league.
Toumani Camara drew 0.19 charges per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 12 of 373 in the league.
Scoot Henderson recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 61 games.
He ranks 55 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 Portland Trail Blazers have won 18 of their 28 games against the Brooklyn Nets.

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Game context

Attendance

17.021

87.7% of capacity

Moda Center · Portland

Scoring

208

combined points

20.4 below the season average (228.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

16 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Shooting · 01:34.8

Mikal Bridges → Malcolm Brogdon

Bridges (BKN) retreats in Brogdon's (POR) path when he absorbs the body contact that occurs.