Portland Trail Blazers – Chicago Bulls · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 30 January 2021

POR123–122CHI

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 81% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 19 times

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.

↑ CHI winsPOR wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Damian Lillard decided it, the Portland Trail Blazers player with the most points (44, with 5 rebounds and 9 assists; 0 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Robert Covington's (+19). 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 Chicago Bulls 122-123 Portland Trail Blazers (January 30, 2021) was hit by Damian Lillard: a three-pointer with 0.3 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Portland Trail Blazers up 123-122. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Chicago Bulls 122-123 Portland Trail Blazers (January 30, 2021) was a 13-0 run by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second quarter (from 8:01 to 6:02), from 36-44 to 49-44. The Chicago Bulls' best was a 8-0 run in the first quarter (from 4:11 to 2:37), from 20-23 to 28-23.

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Play: Damian Lillard makes 27-foot three point jumper.

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.

Damian Lillard decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.3 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 11 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Lillard 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 January 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401267458:600; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · POR

Trent · Lillard · Freedom · Covington · Hood

Closing lineup · CHI

Markkanen · LaVine · White · Young · Temple

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POR

Gary Trent Jr.

37′ · +9

Damian Lillard

36′ · 0

Enes Freedom

34′ · +17

Robert Covington

34′ · +19

Nassir Little

14′ · +6

Carmelo Anthony

17′ · -23

Rodney Hood

27′ · -4

Anfernee Simons

27′ · -3

Harry Giles III

13′ · -18

CHI

Lauri Markkanen

36′ · +8

Zach LaVine

35′ · +6

Coby White

34′ · -17

Patrick Williams

24′ · -12

Daniel Gafford

10′ · -15

Thaddeus Young

29′ · +13

Garrett Temple

25′ · +18

Otto Porter Jr.

24′ · -12

Denzel Valentine

5′ · +4

Cristiano Felicio

5′ · -1

Tomas Satoransky

13′ · +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. POR and CHI.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Portland Trail Blazers

Trent, Little, Freedom, Lillard, and Covington played 13.6 minutes together.
Giles, Simons, Trent, Hood, and Anthony played 6.9 minutes together.
Giles, Simons, Lillard, Hood, and Anthony played 6.5 minutes together.

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

Chicago Bulls

Markkanen, Young, Temple, Satoransky, and LaVine played 6.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 12 points.
Markkanen, White, Gafford, Williams, and LaVine played 6.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 10 points.
Markkanen, White, Williams, Porter, and LaVine played 5.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

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Portland Trail Blazers

Trent, Freedom, Lillard, Covington, and Hood played 5.0 minutes together.
Simons, Trent, Freedom, Covington, and Hood played 4.7 minutes together.
Simons, Trent, Freedom, Lillard, and Covington played 3.4 minutes together.
Simons, Freedom, Lillard, Covington, and Hood played 3.3 minutes together.
Trent, Freedom, Lillard, Covington, and Anthony played 2.3 minutes together.
Simons, Freedom, Lillard, Covington, and Anthony played 1.3 minutes together.

Chicago Bulls

Markkanen, White, Williams, Young, and Porter played 4.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Markkanen, White, Williams, Young, and Temple played 4.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Markkanen, White, Young, Temple, and LaVine played 3.9 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Felicio, Valentine, Temple, Porter, and LaVine played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Markkanen, White, Williams, Young, and LaVine played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
White, Young, Temple, Satoransky, and Porter played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
White, Gafford, Williams, Young, and Porter played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Markkanen, White, Satoransky, Porter, and LaVine played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
White, Young, Satoransky, Porter, and LaVine played 1.0 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.

Lauri Markkanen covered 4.36 km, more than anyone in the game.

Thaddeus Young touched the ball 82 times, a game high.
Thaddeus Young made 66 passes, a game high.
Enes Freedom defended 9 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 7.
Enes Freedom had 22 rebound chances, a game high.

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Portland Trail Blazers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Damian Lillard	4.01	6.3	72	39
Gary Trent Jr.	3.99	6.3	25	8
Enes Freedom	3.77	6.5	40	22
Robert Covington	3.75	6.2	54	48
Anfernee Simons	3.36	7.0	40	28
Rodney Hood	3.25	6.7	25	19
Carmelo Anthony	1.85	6.1	17	9
Nassir Little	1.69	7.3	9	7
Harry Giles III	1.67	7.2	21	16

Chicago Bulls

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Lauri Markkanen	4.36	7.0	57	37
Zach LaVine	4.15	6.8	64	45
Coby White	3.89	6.5	81	65
Thaddeus Young	3.39	6.6	82	66
Patrick Williams	2.94	7.0	25

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 2020-21 regular season, not this game.

Portland Trail Blazers

Robert Covington deflected 3.6 passes per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 2 of 364 in the league.
Damian Lillard recovered 1.0 loose balls per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 31 of 364 in the league.
Gary Trent Jr. deflected 2.1 passes per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 69 of 364 in the league.

Chicago Bulls

Thaddeus Young drew 0.28 charges per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 10 of 364 in the league.
Daniel Gafford defended 4.7 shots at the rim per game over his 52 games, and opponents made 10 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 9 of 143 in the league.
Coby White recovered 1.0 loose balls per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 38 of 364 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 Chicago Bulls have won 74 of their 147 games against the Portland Trail Blazers.

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Game context

Scoring

245

combined points

20.8 above the season average (224.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

20 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Violation: Defensive Goaltending · 01:42.2

Lauri Markkanen → Trail Blazers

Markkanen (CHI) makes contact with the ball after the ball has made contact with the backboard.