Philadelphia 76ers – Portland Trail Blazers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 11 February 2021

PHI114–118POR

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 92% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 16 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.

↑ POR winsPHI wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Damian Lillard decided it, the Portland Trail Blazers player with the most points (30, with 2 rebounds and 7 assists; -8 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Gary Trent Jr.'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 Portland Trail Blazers 118-114 Philadelphia 76ers (February 11, 2021) was hit by Carmelo Anthony: a free throw with 3.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Portland Trail Blazers up 115-114. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Portland Trail Blazers 118-114 Philadelphia 76ers (February 11, 2021) was a 9-0 run by the Portland Trail Blazers in the fourth quarter (from 9:46 to 8:28), from 93-97 to 102-97. The Philadelphia 76ers' best was a 9-0 run in the second quarter (from 4:03 to 1:08), from 50-58 to 59-58.

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Play: Carmelo Anthony 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.

Carmelo Anthony 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 19 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Anthony 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.

11 February 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401267554:629; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · PHI

Harris · Simmons · Embiid · Curry · Green

Closing lineup · POR

Trent · Lillard · Covington · Jones · Anthony

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PHI

Tobias Harris

38′ · -14

Ben Simmons

37′ · +7

Joel Embiid

35′ · +9

Seth Curry

35′ · +9

Danny Green

31′ · +3

Furkan Korkmaz

24′ · -1

Matisse Thybulle

15′ · -7

Tyrese Maxey

13′ · -13

Dwight Howard

13′ · -13

POR

Gary Trent Jr.

37′ · +11

Damian Lillard

36′ · -8

Enes Freedom

32′ · -7

Robert Covington

25′ · -2

Derrick Jones Jr.

23′ · 0

Carmelo Anthony

26′ · +6

Rodney Hood

24′ · +3

Anfernee Simons

23′ · +6

Harry Giles III

14′ · +11

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Philadelphia 76ers

Simmons, Green, Harris, Curry, and Embiid played 23.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Korkmaz, Thybulle, Maxey, Harris, and Howard played 10.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Simmons, Korkmaz, Green, Curry, and Embiid played 6.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 10 points.

Portland Trail Blazers

Jones, Trent, Freedom, Lillard, and Covington played 14.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Giles, Simons, Trent, Hood, and Anthony played 8.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 12 points.
Jones, Trent, Freedom, Lillard, and Anthony played 7.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

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Philadelphia 76ers

Simmons, Korkmaz, Harris, Curry, and Embiid played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Simmons, Korkmaz, Thybulle, Curry, and Embiid played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Simmons, Korkmaz, Thybulle, Maxey, and Howard played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Korkmaz, Maxey, Green, Harris, and Howard played 1.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.

Portland Trail Blazers

Giles, Simons, Lillard, Hood, and Anthony played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Simons, Freedom, Lillard, Covington, and Hood played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Simons, Trent, Freedom, Covington, and Hood played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Simons, Freedom, Lillard, Hood, and Anthony played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Trent, Freedom, Lillard, Covington, and Anthony played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Trent, Lillard, Covington, Hood, and Anthony played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 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.

Ben Simmons covered 4.23 km, more than anyone in the game.

Damian Lillard touched the ball 100 times, a game high.
Ben Simmons made 72 passes, a game high.
Joel Embiid defended 8 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 2.
Enes Freedom had 25 rebound chances, a game high.

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Philadelphia 76ers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Ben Simmons	4.23	6.4	89	72
Tobias Harris	4.18	6.2	59	41
Danny Green	4.05	7.3	31	24
Seth Curry	4.04	6.6	43	29
Joel Embiid	3.75	6.0	68	33
Furkan Korkmaz	2.99	7.0	29	19
Matisse Thybulle	1.77	6.5	21	17
Tyrese Maxey	1.67	7.4	31	21
Dwight Howard	1.50	6.3	16	11

Portland Trail Blazers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Damian Lillard	4.22	6.5	100	60
Gary Trent Jr.	4.14	6.3	35	22
Enes Freedom	3.62	6.4	47	34
Derrick Jones Jr.	2.90	7.0	30	19
Rodney Hood	2.88	6.7	34

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.

Philadelphia 76ers

Ben Simmons deflected 3.5 passes per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 5 of 364 in the league.
Matisse Thybulle deflected 3.2 passes per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 8 of 364 in the league.
Danny Green deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 27 of 364 in the league.

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.
Rodney Hood drew 0.09 charges per game over his 53 games.
He ranks 69 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 Portland Trail Blazers have won 32 of their 58 games against the Philadelphia 76ers.

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Game context

Scoring

232

combined points

7.8 above the season average (224.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

17 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors