Atlanta Hawks – Detroit Pistons · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 8 November 2024

ATL121–122DET

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 85% of NBA games since 2017

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.

↑ DET winsATL wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Tobias Harris decided it, the Detroit Pistons player with the most points (22, with 6 rebounds and 2 assists; +1 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Simone Fontecchio's (+5). 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 Detroit Pistons 122-121 Atlanta Hawks (November 8, 2024) was hit by Cade Cunningham: a hook shot with 8.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Detroit Pistons up 122-121. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Detroit Pistons 122-121 Atlanta Hawks (November 8, 2024) was a 11-0 run by the Detroit Pistons between the third quarter and the fourth quarter, from 88-85 to 99-85. The Atlanta Hawks' best was a 9-0 run in the second quarter (from 7:32 to 6:06), from 31-55 to 40-55.

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Play: Cade Cunningham makes 7-foot two point shot (Tim Hardaway Jr. 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.

Cade Cunningham decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 8.1 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 Cunningham 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.

8 November 2024 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401704751:744; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · ATL

Young · Daniels · Johnson · Okongwu · Mathews

Closing lineup · DET

Cunningham · Stewart · Harris · Ivey · Beasley

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ATL

Trae Young

41′ · +14

Dyson Daniels

38′ · +10

Jalen Johnson

37′ · -12

Zaccharie Risacher

25′ · -4

Clint Capela

19′ · -4

Onyeka Okongwu

17′ · +3

David Roddy

16′ · +5

Garrison Mathews

27′ · -2

Keaton Wallace

7′ · -15

Larry Nance Jr.

13′ · 0

DET

Cade Cunningham

36′ · +3

Isaiah Stewart

33′ · -3

Tobias Harris

31′ · +1

Jaden Ivey

29′ · -3

Tim Hardaway Jr.

29′ · +3

Malik Beasley

34′ · -3

Paul Reed

15′ · -1

Simone Fontecchio

20′ · +5

Ronald Holland II

14′ · +3

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Atlanta Hawks

Young, Johnson, Daniels, Risacher, and Capela played 12.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 10 points.
Young, Mathews, Johnson, Daniels, and Capela played 6.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Young, Mathews, Okongwu, Johnson, and Daniels played 5.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.

Detroit Pistons

Stewart, Cunningham, Ivey, Harris, and Hardaway played 10.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Beasley, Stewart, Cunningham, Ivey, and Harris played 6.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 9 points.
Beasley, Stewart, Cunningham, Fontecchio, and Holland played 6.0 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.

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Atlanta Hawks

Nance, Young, Daniels, Roddy, and Risacher played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Young, Mathews, Okongwu, Daniels, and Roddy played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Mathews, Okongwu, Johnson, Wallace, and Roddy played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Nance, Mathews, Johnson, Wallace, and Risacher played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Young, Okongwu, Daniels, Roddy, and Risacher played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 9 points.
Nance, Young, Mathews, Johnson, and Risacher played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Nance, Young, Johnson, Daniels, and Risacher played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Nance, Young, Mathews, Johnson, and Daniels played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.

Detroit Pistons

Beasley, Stewart, Cunningham, Harris, and Hardaway played 5.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Reed, Ivey, Harris, and Hardaway played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Reed, Ivey, Fontecchio, and Holland played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Stewart, Cunningham, Fontecchio, Holland, and Hardaway played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Reed, Ivey, Fontecchio, and Hardaway played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Beasley, Reed, Cunningham, Fontecchio, and Harris played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Beasley, Reed, Cunningham, Fontecchio, and Hardaway played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Reed, Cunningham, Harris, and Hardaway played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Stewart, Ivey, Fontecchio, and Holland played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 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.

Dyson Daniels covered 5.05 km, more than anyone in the game.

Trae Young touched the ball 104 times, a game high.
Trae Young made 70 passes, a game high.
Isaiah Stewart defended 9 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 5.
Isaiah Stewart had 20 rebound chances, a game high.

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Atlanta Hawks

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Dyson Daniels	5.05	7.3	55	34
Jalen Johnson	4.71	7.0	91	68
Trae Young	4.68	6.4	104	70
Garrison Mathews	3.57	7.1	20	12
Zaccharie Risacher	3.30	7.5	24	11
Clint Capela	2.17	6.5	31	18
Onyeka Okongwu	2.08	6.8	25	17
David Roddy	2.08	7.3	32	28
Larry Nance Jr.	1.46	6.5	15	9
Keaton Wallace	1.00	7.7	16	15

Detroit Pistons

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Cade Cunningham	4.60	7.1	95	68
Malik Beasley	4.02	6.6	41	21
Isaiah Stewart	3.88	6.6	40	31
Jaden Ivey	3.75	7.1	60	38
Tobias Harris	3.65	6.6	47

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 2024-25 regular season, not this game.

Atlanta Hawks

Dyson Daniels deflected 5.9 passes per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 1 of 388 in the league.
Garrison Mathews drew 0.24 charges per game over his 42 games.
He ranks 6 of 388 in the league.
Clint Capela drew 0.16 charges per game over his 55 games.
He ranks 16 of 388 in the league.

Detroit Pistons

Tim Hardaway Jr. drew 0.24 charges per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 6 of 388 in the league.
Jaden Ivey recovered 0.9 loose balls per game over his 30 games.
He ranks 9 of 388 in the league.
Isaiah Stewart contested 8.7 shots per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 18 of 388 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 Detroit Pistons have won 152 of their 277 games against the Atlanta Hawks.

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Game context

Attendance

17.913

88.1% of capacity

Little Caesars Arena · Detroit

Scoring

243

combined points

15.3 above the season average (227.7)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

14 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors