San Antonio Spurs – Oklahoma City Thunder · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 24 February 2021

SAS99–102OKC

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 83% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 22 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.

↑ OKC winsSAS wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander decided it, the Oklahoma City Thunder player with the most points (42, with 8 rebounds and 4 assists; +15 with him on the floor). 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 Oklahoma City Thunder 102-99 San Antonio Spurs (February 24, 2021) was hit by Luguentz Dort: a three-pointer with 0.6 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Oklahoma City Thunder up 102-99. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Oklahoma City Thunder 102-99 San Antonio Spurs (February 24, 2021) was a 11-0 run by the San Antonio Spurs between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 19-28 to 30-28. The Oklahoma City Thunder' best was a 9-0 run in the first quarter (from 6:33 to 3:59), from 8-12 to 17-12.

What were the keys of the last Oklahoma City Thunder vs San Antonio Spurs game?

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Play: Luguentz Dort makes 23-foot three point jumper (Al Horford 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.

Luguentz Dort decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Dort 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.

24 February 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401267655:591; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · SAS

Poeltl · Walker · Murray · Mills · Bates-Diop

Closing lineup · OKC

Gilgeous-Alexander · Maledon · Dort · Bazley · Horford

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SAS

Jakob Poeltl

35′ · -15

Lonnie Walker IV

33′ · -7

Dejounte Murray

32′ · +8

Trey Lyles

26′ · -8

Luka Samanic

19′ · -4

Patty Mills

28′ · -1

LaMarcus Aldridge

26′ · +9

Tre Jones

12′ · -6

Keita Bates-Diop

20′ · -1

Drew Eubanks

9′ · +10

OKC

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

38′ · +15

Theo Maledon

35′ · +7

Luguentz Dort

31′ · +6

Darius Bazley

30′ · +11

Al Horford

30′ · +10

Kenrich Williams

18′ · -6

Isaiah Roby

17′ · -10

Justin Jackson

13′ · -2

Hamidou Diallo

11′ · -5

Mike Muscala

17′ · -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. SAS and OKC.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

San Antonio Spurs

Lyles, Murray, Poeltl, Walker, and Samanic played 14.6 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Murray, Poeltl, Walker, Aldridge, and Mills played 6.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Bates-Diop, Eubanks, Jones, Aldridge, and Mills played 5.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Gilgeous-Alexander, Bazley, Dort, Maledon, and Horford played 27.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Jackson, Diallo, Williams, Roby, and Muscala played 5.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 10 points.
Jackson, Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams, Roby, and Muscala played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

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San Antonio Spurs

Lyles, Murray, Poeltl, Bates-Diop, and Walker played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Lyles, Poeltl, Walker, Samanic, and Mills played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Murray, Bates-Diop, Eubanks, Aldridge, and Mills played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 13 points.
Poeltl, Bates-Diop, Jones, Aldridge, and Mills played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Poeltl, Walker, Jones, Aldridge, and Mills played 2.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Lyles, Murray, Bates-Diop, Walker, and Aldridge played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Lyles, Murray, Bates-Diop, Aldridge, and Mills played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Jackson, Williams, Roby, Maledon, and Muscala played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Bazley, Maledon, and Muscala played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Diallo, Williams, Roby, Maledon, and Muscala played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams, Dort, Roby, and Muscala played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Jackson, Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams, and Roby played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams, Dort, Roby, and Horford played 1.1 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.

This is how the NBA's cameras measured the players in this game.

Dejounte Murray touched the ball 83 times, a game high.
Dejounte Murray made 56 passes, a game high.
Jakob Poeltl defended 8 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 5.
Jakob Poeltl had 15 rebound chances, a game high.

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San Antonio Spurs

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jakob Poeltl	4.23	6.9	36	28
Dejounte Murray	3.89	7.1	83	56
Lonnie Walker IV	3.89	6.7	45	26
Patty Mills	3.30	6.7	45	29
Trey Lyles	3.15	7.1	41	31
LaMarcus Aldridge	2.90	6.3	45	30
Keita Bates-Diop	2.65	7.6	26	19
Luka Samanic	2.49	7.8	17	13
Tre Jones	1.59	7.3	26	20
Drew Eubanks	1.22	7.5	10	6

Oklahoma City Thunder

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	4.31	6.5	79	45
Theo Maledon	4.31	7.2	50	44
Darius Bazley	3.52	6.7	44	33
Luguentz Dort	3.52	6.6	32	19
Al Horford	3.20	6.2	47

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.

San Antonio Spurs

Jakob Poeltl contested 14.5 shots per game over his 69 games.
He ranks 3 of 364 in the league.
Dejounte Murray deflected 2.9 passes per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 15 of 364 in the league.
Patty Mills drew 0.09 charges per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 69 of 364 in the league.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Darius Bazley contested 9.0 shots per game over his 55 games.
He ranks 27 of 364 in the league.
Mike Muscala contested 8.5 shots per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 38 of 364 in the league.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander contested 8.2 shots per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 47 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 Oklahoma City Thunder have won 44 of their 90 games against the San Antonio Spurs.

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Game context

Scoring

201

combined points

23.2 below the season average (224.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

10 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors