Minnesota Timberwolves – Miami Heat · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 26 February 2020

MIN129–126MIA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 95% of NBA games since 2017

· The win probability swung between the two teams 27 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.

↑ MIA winsMIN wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

D'Angelo Russell decided it, the Minnesota Timberwolves player with the most points (27, with 5 rebounds and 6 assists; 0 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jordan McLaughlin's (+20). 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 Miami Heat 126-129 Minnesota Timberwolves (February 26, 2020) was hit by Jordan McLaughlin: a layup with 8.5 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Minnesota Timberwolves up 127-126. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Miami Heat 126-129 Minnesota Timberwolves (February 26, 2020) was a 11-0 run by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the fourth quarter (from 3:20 to 45.7 s), from 112-123 to 123-123. The Miami Heat' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 6:15 to 3:56), from 12-17 to 19-17.

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Play: Jordan McLaughlin makes driving layup.

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 McLaughlin decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 8.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is the only game he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games McLaughlin 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.

26 February 2020 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401161510:763; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · MIN

Beasley · Russell · Hernangomez · Layman · McLaughlin

Closing lineup · MIA

Butler · Adebayo · Robinson · Dragic · Crowder

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MIN

Malik Beasley

33′ · +9

D'Angelo Russell

31′ · 0

Juancho Hernangomez

31′ · 0

Josh Okogie

28′ · -4

Naz Reid

19′ · +2

Jake Layman

13′ · 0

James Johnson

23′ · -12

Jarrett Culver

21′ · -1

Kelan Martin

19′ · -1

Jordan McLaughlin

22′ · +20

MIA

Jimmy Butler III

35′ · +4

Bam Adebayo

33′ · +4

Kendrick Nunn

31′ · +6

Duncan Robinson

26′ · -9

Kelly Olynyk

16′ · +2

Goran Dragic

26′ · +3

Jae Crowder

32′ · -7

Derrick Jones Jr.

20′ · -5

Andre Iguodala

20′ · -13

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Russell, Beasley, Hernangomez, Okogie, and Reid played 10.7 minutes together.
Beasley, Martin, McLaughlin, Culver, and Johnson played 9.0 minutes together.
Russell, Beasley, Hernangomez, Okogie, and Johnson played 5.7 minutes together.

The plus-minus of each Minnesota Timberwolves lineup is not shown: its rotation stints do not add up with each other.

Miami Heat

Adebayo, Robinson, Nunn, Butler, and Olynyk played 13.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Jones, Robinson, Dragic, Crowder, and Iguodala played 9.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Adebayo, Nunn, Butler, Crowder, and Iguodala played 5.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.

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Minnesota Timberwolves

Russell, Beasley, Hernangomez, Okogie, and McLaughlin played 3.5 minutes together.
Russell, Layman, Hernangomez, Okogie, and Johnson played 2.7 minutes together.
Layman, Martin, McLaughlin, Culver, and Johnson played 2.5 minutes together.
Beasley, Martin, McLaughlin, Culver, and Reid played 2.2 minutes together.
Russell, Layman, Hernangomez, Culver, and Reid played 2.2 minutes together.
Russell, Layman, Martin, Culver, and Johnson played 1.5 minutes together.
Russell, Layman, Hernangomez, Okogie, and Reid played 1.4 minutes together.
Russell, Hernangomez, Okogie, Martin, and Culver played 1.4 minutes together.
Beasley, Okogie, Martin, McLaughlin, and Reid played 1.2 minutes together.
Russell, Hernangomez, Okogie, McLaughlin, and Johnson played 1.1 minutes together.

Miami Heat

Adebayo, Nunn, Dragic, Butler, and Olynyk played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Jones, Adebayo, Nunn, Butler, and Crowder played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Jones, Robinson, Dragic, Butler, and Crowder played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Adebayo, Nunn, Dragic, Butler, and Crowder played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Adebayo, Dragic, Butler, Crowder, and Iguodala played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Adebayo, Nunn, Dragic, Crowder, and Iguodala played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Jones, Adebayo, Dragic, Butler, and Crowder played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Jones, Nunn, Dragic, Butler, and Crowder played 1.3 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.

Jimmy Butler III covered 4.49 km, more than anyone in the game.

D'Angelo Russell touched the ball 90 times, a game high.
D'Angelo Russell made 65 passes, a game high.
Bam Adebayo defended 10 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 9.

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Minnesota Timberwolves

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Malik Beasley	4.14	7.0	62	44
Juancho Hernangomez	3.85	6.9	48	34
D'Angelo Russell	3.57	6.3	90	65
Josh Okogie	3.46	7.0	17	11
James Johnson	2.88	6.8	62	46
Jordan McLaughlin	2.86	7.2	56	49
Jarrett Culver	2.61	6.8	27	15
Kelan Martin	2.35	6.8	33	21
Naz Reid	2.28	6.8	31	23
Jake Layman	1.90	7.7	20	13

Miami Heat

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jimmy Butler III	4.49	7.1	74	51
Bam Adebayo	3.96	6.6	69	46
Jae Crowder	3.94	6.8	56	44
Kendrick Nunn	3.80	6.8	55	31
Goran Dragic	3.30	6.9	66	49

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 2019-20 regular season, not this game.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Josh Okogie deflected 2.2 passes per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 54 of 352 in the league.
D'Angelo Russell deflected 2.2 passes per game over his 45 games.
He ranks 54 of 352 in the league.
James Johnson contested 7.5 shots per game over his 31 games.
He ranks 78 of 352 in the league.

Miami Heat

Jimmy Butler III deflected 3.4 passes per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 7 of 352 in the league.
Bam Adebayo recovered 1.3 loose balls per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 18 of 352 in the league.
Kelly Olynyk drew 0.18 charges per game over his 66 games.
He ranks 23 of 352 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 Miami Heat have won 36 of their 72 games against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Game context

Attendance

19.600

100% of capacity

Kaseya Center · Miami

Scoring

255

combined points

31.4 above the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

17 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors