Utah Jazz – New Orleans Pelicans · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 30 July 2020

UTA106–104NOP

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 89% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes

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.

↑ NOP winsUTA wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Jordan Clarkson decided it, the Utah Jazz player with the most points (23, with 5 rebounds and 3 assists; -15 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Mike Conley's (+12). 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 New Orleans Pelicans 104-106 Utah Jazz (July 30, 2020) was hit by Rudy Gobert: a free throw with 6.9 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Utah Jazz up 105-104. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of New Orleans Pelicans 104-106 Utah Jazz (July 30, 2020) was a 11-0 run by the New Orleans Pelicans between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 17-23 to 28-23. The Utah Jazz' best was a 10-0 run in the first quarter (from 9:24 to 6:55), from 9-8 to 19-8.

What were the keys of the last New Orleans Pelicans vs Utah Jazz game?

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Play: Rudy Gobert makes free throw 1 of 2.

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.

Rudy Gobert decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 6.9 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 Gobert 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.

30 July 2020 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401224686:706; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2019-20 regular season, not this game.

Utah Jazz

Rudy Gobert contested 16.4 shots per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 2 of 352 in the league.
Mike Conley drew 0.15 charges per game over his 47 games.
He ranks 36 of 352 in the league.
Joe Ingles deflected 2.3 passes per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 47 of 352 in the league.

New Orleans Pelicans

Jrue Holiday deflected 4.0 passes per game over his 61 games.
He ranks 2 of 352 in the league.
JJ Redick drew 0.24 charges per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 10 of 352 in the league.
Lonzo Ball deflected 3.0 passes per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 17 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 New Orleans Pelicans have won 20 of their 45 games against the Utah Jazz.

20-25record of the New Orleans Pelicans · NBA 2013-14 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2013-14 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Scoring

210

combined points

13.6 below the season average (223.6)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

16 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors