Houston Rockets – Brooklyn Nets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 February 2025

HOU97–99BKN

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 97% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· 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.

↑ BKN winsHOU wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Keon Johnson decided it, the Brooklyn Nets player with the most points (22, with 4 rebounds and 2 assists; -3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Reece Beekman's (+11). 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 Brooklyn Nets 99-97 Houston Rockets (February 4, 2025) was hit by D'Angelo Russell: a three-pointer with 3.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Brooklyn Nets up 99-97. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Brooklyn Nets 99-97 Houston Rockets (February 4, 2025) was a 14-0 run by the Brooklyn Nets in the third quarter (from 6:54 to 4:22), from 49-57 to 63-57. The Houston Rockets' best was a 8-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 3:55 to 1:30), from 84-88 to 92-88.

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Play: D'Angelo Russell makes 28-foot three point jumper (Tosan Evbuomwan 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.

D'Angelo Russell decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 3.1 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 7 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Russell 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.

4 February 2025 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401705277:705; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · HOU

Thompson · Brooks · Sengun · Green · Sheppard

Closing lineup · BKN

Williams · Johnson · Claxton · Evbuomwan · Martin

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HOU

Amen Thompson

40′ · +10

Dillon Brooks

37′ · -3

Alperen Sengun

35′ · +8

Jalen Green

33′ · -1

Aaron Holiday

14′ · -4

Cam Whitmore

24′ · -2

Jae'Sean Tate

16′ · -16

Steven Adams

13′ · -5

Reed Sheppard

28′ · +3

BKN

Ziaire Williams

30′ · -8

Keon Johnson

29′ · -3

Nic Claxton

28′ · +6

D'Angelo Russell

26′ · -7

Jalen Wilson

18′ · -10

Reece Beekman

22′ · +11

Tosan Evbuomwan

28′ · +7

Tyrese Martin

20′ · +10

Day'Ron Sharpe

20′ · -4

Trendon Watford

19′ · +8

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Houston Rockets

Brooks, Green, Sengun, Thompson, and Sheppard played 12.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 10 points.
Brooks, Holiday, Green, Sengun, and Thompson played 7.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Brooks, Holiday, Sengun, Thompson, and Whitmore played 4.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

Brooklyn Nets

Russell, Claxton, Williams, Johnson, and Wilson played 13.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Russell, Sharpe, Watford, Martin, and Evbuomwan played 8.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Sharpe, Watford, Martin, Beekman, and Evbuomwan played 5.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

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Houston Rockets

Brooks, Thompson, Whitmore, Sheppard, and Adams played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Green, Tate, Thompson, Whitmore, and Adams played 3.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Brooks, Sengun, Thompson, Whitmore, and Sheppard played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Tate, Thompson, Whitmore, Sheppard, and Adams played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Green, Tate, Sengun, Whitmore, and Sheppard played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Brooks, Green, Tate, Whitmore, and Adams played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Brooks, Green, Tate, Sengun, and Sheppard played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Holiday, Green, Tate, Sengun, and Thompson played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Brooks, Green, Tate, Sengun, and Whitmore played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

Brooklyn Nets

Claxton, Williams, Johnson, Wilson, and Beekman played 3.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Russell, Claxton, Williams, Johnson, and Evbuomwan played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Claxton, Williams, Johnson, Beekman, and Evbuomwan played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Williams, Sharpe, Johnson, Beekman, and Evbuomwan played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Claxton, Watford, Martin, Beekman, and Evbuomwan played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Claxton, Johnson, Watford, Martin, and Beekman played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Williams, Sharpe, Martin, Beekman, and Evbuomwan played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Sharpe, Wilson, Martin, Beekman, and Evbuomwan played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team lost 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.

Amen Thompson covered 4.76 km, more than anyone in the game.

Alperen Sengun touched the ball 83 times, a game high.
Amen Thompson made 62 passes, a game high.
Nic Claxton defended 9 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 6.
Alperen Sengun had 30 rebound chances, a game high.

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Houston Rockets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Amen Thompson	4.76	6.6	79	62
Dillon Brooks	4.12	6.2	46	29
Alperen Sengun	3.81	6.2	83	56
Jalen Green	3.65	6.2	61	41
Reed Sheppard	3.41	6.9	55	35
Cam Whitmore	2.74	6.3	29	17
Jae'Sean Tate	1.93	6.7	16	11
Aaron Holiday	1.54	5.9	13	12
Steven Adams	1.53	6.3	11	6

Brooklyn Nets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Keon Johnson	3.68	7.1	51	29
Ziaire Williams	3.57	6.7	28	20
Tosan Evbuomwan	3.43	6.8	42	28
Nic Claxton	3.15	6.3	49	37
D'Angelo Russell	3.04	6.5	69

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.

Houston Rockets

Jae'Sean Tate drew 0.17 charges per game over his 47 games.
He ranks 12 of 388 in the league.
Alperen Sengun contested 9.1 shots per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 16 of 388 in the league.
Amen Thompson deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 24 of 388 in the league.

Brooklyn Nets

Ziaire Williams deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 32 of 388 in the league.
Nic Claxton contested 7.1 shots per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 35 of 388 in the league.
Keon Johnson drew 0.09 charges per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 41 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 Brooklyn Nets have won 13 of their 28 games against the Houston Rockets.

13-15record of the Brooklyn Nets · NBA 2012-13 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2012-13 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

16.564

93.4% of capacity

Barclays Center · Brooklyn

Scoring

196

combined points

31.7 below the season average (227.7)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

19 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors