Indiana Pacers – Charlotte Hornets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 20 October 2021

IND122–123CHA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 90% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 26 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.

↑ CHA winsIND wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

LaMelo Ball decided it, the Charlotte Hornets player with the most points (31, with 9 rebounds and 7 assists; 0 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Miles Bridges's (+15). 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 Charlotte Hornets 123-122 Indiana Pacers (October 20, 2021) was hit by P.J. Washington: a free throw with 4.6 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Charlotte Hornets up 123-122. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Charlotte Hornets 123-122 Indiana Pacers (October 20, 2021) was a 24-0 run by the Charlotte Hornets in the third quarter (from 8:24 to 2:46), from 63-84 to 87-84. The Indiana Pacers' best was a 9-0 run between the second quarter and the third quarter, from 73-59 to 82-59.

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Play: P.J. Washington makes free throw 2 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.

P.J. Washington decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 4.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 3 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Washington 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.

20 October 2021 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401359833:752; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · IND

Brogdon · Sabonis · Duarte · Holiday · Lamb

Closing lineup · CHA

Oubre · Hayward · Bridges · Martin · Washington

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IND

Malcolm Brogdon

40′ · 0

Domantas Sabonis

39′ · -1

Chris Duarte

33′ · +7

Justin Holiday

26′ · +1

Myles Turner

26′ · -8

Torrey Craig

28′ · -3

Jeremy Lamb

24′ · +5

T.J. McConnell

24′ · -8

CHA

Kelly Oubre Jr.

35′ · +1

Gordon Hayward

35′ · +12

Miles Bridges

33′ · +15

Mason Plumlee

32′ · +4

LaMelo Ball

29′ · 0

Cody Martin

24′ · -6

Ish Smith

21′ · -1

P.J. Washington

19′ · -10

Jalen McDaniels

11′ · -10

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Indiana Pacers

Turner, Sabonis, Brogdon, Duarte, and Holiday played 11.5 minutes together.
Sabonis, Brogdon, Craig, Duarte, and Lamb played 7.2 minutes together.
Turner, Brogdon, Craig, Duarte, and McConnell played 3.1 minutes together.

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

Charlotte Hornets

Oubre, Bridges, Ball, Hayward, and Plumlee played 19.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Martin, Washington, McDaniels, Hayward, and Smith played 5.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Ball, and Plumlee played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.

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Indiana Pacers

Turner, Brogdon, Craig, Lamb, and McConnell played 2.6 minutes together.
Turner, Sabonis, Brogdon, Craig, and Lamb played 2.5 minutes together.
Sabonis, Brogdon, Craig, Lamb, and McConnell played 2.4 minutes together.
Sabonis, Craig, Duarte, Lamb, and McConnell played 2.3 minutes together.
Sabonis, Craig, Lamb, Holiday, and McConnell played 2.1 minutes together.
Turner, Brogdon, Duarte, Holiday, and McConnell played 1.8 minutes together.
Turner, Sabonis, Brogdon, Holiday, and McConnell played 1.7 minutes together.
Sabonis, Duarte, Lamb, Holiday, and McConnell played 1.7 minutes together.
Sabonis, Brogdon, Craig, Holiday, and McConnell played 1.7 minutes together.
Sabonis, Craig, Duarte, Holiday, and McConnell played 1.6 minutes together.
Sabonis, Brogdon, Duarte, Lamb, and Holiday played 1.4 minutes together.
Turner, Sabonis, Brogdon, Craig, and McConnell played 1.4 minutes together.
Sabonis, Brogdon, Lamb, Holiday, and McConnell played 1.1 minutes together.
Turner, Brogdon, Duarte, Lamb, and Holiday played 1.0 minutes together.

Charlotte Hornets

Oubre, Martin, Washington, Ball, and Plumlee played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Oubre, Martin, Washington, McDaniels, and Smith played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Martin, Ball, Hayward, Smith, and Plumlee played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Smith, and Plumlee played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Bridges, Washington, McDaniels, Hayward, and Smith played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Bridges, Martin, Washington, Hayward, and Smith played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Oubre, Bridges, Hayward, Smith, and Plumlee played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Oubre, Bridges, Martin, Washington, and Smith played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Oubre, Bridges, Washington, Hayward, and Smith played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Martin, Washington, Hayward, Smith, and Plumlee played 1.0 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.

Malcolm Brogdon covered 5.07 km, more than anyone in the game.

Malcolm Brogdon touched the ball 102 times, a game high.
Malcolm Brogdon made 71 passes, a game high.
Domantas Sabonis had 30 rebound chances, a game high.

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Indiana Pacers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Malcolm Brogdon	5.07	6.9	102	71
Domantas Sabonis	4.86	6.8	92	62
Chris Duarte	4.38	7.4	46	28
Torrey Craig	3.72	7.3	33	27
Justin Holiday	3.39	7.4	34	24
T.J. McConnell	3.33	7.5	67	58
Myles Turner	3.23	7.0	36	23
Jeremy Lamb	3.15	7.1	35	23

Charlotte Hornets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Gordon Hayward	4.55	7.1	71	38
Miles Bridges	4.25	7.2	51	37
Kelly Oubre Jr.	4.18	6.6	29	11
Mason Plumlee	3.96	6.7	56	43
LaMelo Ball	3.94	7.5	93

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 2021-22 regular season, not this game.

Indiana Pacers

Myles Turner contested 10.7 shots per game over his 42 games.
He ranks 12 of 386 in the league.
Domantas Sabonis recovered 1.0 loose balls per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 17 of 386 in the league.
Malcolm Brogdon recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 36 games.
He ranks 54 of 386 in the league.

Charlotte Hornets

Cody Martin drew 0.27 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 9 of 386 in the league.
LaMelo Ball recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 75 games.
He ranks 9 of 386 in the league.
Kelly Oubre Jr. deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 28 of 386 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 Charlotte Hornets have won 34 of their 78 games against the Indiana Pacers.

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Game context

Attendance

15.521

81.4% of capacity

Spectrum Center · Charlotte

Scoring

245

combined points

23.8 above the season average (221.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

36 calls reviewed3 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Personal · 00:12.3

Miles Bridges → Torrey Craig

Bridges (CHA) brushes Craig's (IND) left forearm and marginal contact occurs following the rebounding sequence.

Foul: Loose Ball · 00:37.0

LaMelo Ball → Torrey Craig

Ball (CHA) grabs and pulls Craig's (IND) jersey, affecting Craig's ability to retrieve the rebound and subsequently causing the contact between Ball and Sabonis (IND) to occur.

Stoppage: Out-of-Bounds · 01:21.9

Torrey Craig → Hornets

Craig's (IND) foot remains in bounds as he makes contact with the ball. After batting the ball away, he steps out of bounds and re-establishes himself in bounds before making contact with the ball again.