Dallas Mavericks – Brooklyn Nets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 16 March 2022

DAL113–111BKN

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 86% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 20 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.

↑ BKN winsDAL wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Luka Dončić decided it, the Dallas Mavericks player with the most points (37, with 9 rebounds and 9 assists; -4 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Dorian Finney-Smith's (+10). 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 Brooklyn Nets 111-113 Dallas Mavericks (March 16, 2022) was hit by Spencer Dinwiddie: a three-pointer with 1.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Dallas Mavericks up 113-111. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Brooklyn Nets 111-113 Dallas Mavericks (March 16, 2022) was a 9-0 run by the Dallas Mavericks in the fourth quarter (from 11:19 to 8:55), from 79-93 to 88-93. The Brooklyn Nets' best was a 8-0 run in the second quarter (from 8:47 to 7:29), from 39-35 to 47-35.

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Play: Spencer Dinwiddie makes 26-foot three point jumper (Luka Doncic 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.

Spencer Dinwiddie decided this game: his points put his team ahead with one second left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 4 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Dinwiddie 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.

16 March 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401360855:622; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · DAL

Doncic · Brunson · Finney-Smith · Dinwiddie · Kleber

Closing lineup · BKN

Durant · Brown · Dragic · Claxton · Johnson

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DAL

Luka Doncic

39′ · -4

Jalen Brunson

34′ · +7

Dorian Finney-Smith

34′ · +10

Spencer Dinwiddie

33′ · -4

Dwight Powell

30′ · -5

Maxi Kleber

30′ · +7

Josh Green

18′ · +2

Frank Ntilikina

3′ · 0

Davis Bertans

9′ · +6

Sterling Brown

9′ · -9

BKN

Kevin Durant

40′ · +2

Bruce Brown

39′ · +4

Goran Dragic

36′ · +3

Patty Mills

36′ · -3

Andre Drummond

22′ · -11

Kessler Edwards

20′ · -3

Nic Claxton

26′ · +9

James Johnson

16′ · -13

Cam Thomas

6′ · +2

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Dallas Mavericks

Finney-Smith, Brunson, Doncic, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 10.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Finney-Smith, Kleber, Brunson, Doncic, and Powell played 5.1 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Finney-Smith, Kleber, Brunson, Doncic, and Dinwiddie played 4.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.

Brooklyn Nets

Brown, Durant, Dragic, Mills, and Drummond played 9.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Brown, Claxton, Edwards, Durant, and Mills played 6.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Claxton, Thomas, Dragic, Johnson, and Mills played 5.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

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Dallas Mavericks

Brown, Kleber, Doncic, Green, and Dinwiddie played 4.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Finney-Smith, Brunson, Bertans, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 3.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Finney-Smith, Ntilikina, Kleber, Doncic, and Green played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Brown, Brunson, Bertans, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Finney-Smith, Kleber, Doncic, Green, and Powell played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Kleber, Brunson, Doncic, Green, and Powell played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Brown, Kleber, Brunson, Bertans, and Dinwiddie played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Finney-Smith, Kleber, Brunson, Doncic, and Green played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Kleber, Brunson, Green, Bertans, and Dinwiddie played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Kleber, Doncic, Green, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Finney-Smith, Kleber, Doncic, Green, and Dinwiddie played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Kleber, Brunson, Doncic, Dinwiddie, and Powell played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.

Brooklyn Nets

Brown, Claxton, Durant, Dragic, and Mills played 5.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Brown, Edwards, Durant, Dragic, and Drummond played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Brown, Claxton, Edwards, Durant, and Dragic played 4.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Brown, Claxton, Durant, Johnson, and Mills played 3.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Brown, Edwards, Durant, Mills, and Drummond played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Edwards, Dragic, Johnson, Mills, and Drummond played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Brown, Edwards, Dragic, Johnson, and Drummond played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Durant, Dragic, Johnson, Mills, and Drummond played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Brown, Durant, Dragic, Johnson, and Drummond played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 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.

Bruce Brown covered 4.33 km, more than anyone in the game.

Luka Dončić touched the ball 94 times, a game high.
Goran Dragic made 63 passes, a game high.
Luka Dončić defended 10 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 7.
Andre Drummond had 20 rebound chances, a game high.

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Dallas Mavericks

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Luka Dončić	3.99	5.8	94	57
Jalen Brunson	3.93	6.5	58	40
Dwight Powell	3.70	7.0	39	30
Dorian Finney-Smith	3.62	6.1	27	19
Spencer Dinwiddie	3.52	6.0	55	36
Maxi Kleber	3.17	5.8	31	24
Josh Green	2.24	7.0	16	10
Sterling Brown	1.13	7.0	13	10
Davis Bertans	1.09	6.7	8	7
Frank Ntilikina	0.42	7.0	4	4

Brooklyn Nets

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Bruce Brown	4.33	6.3	71	52
Goran Dragic	4.15	6.5	84	63
Patty Mills	4.12	6.4	37	26
Kevin Durant	3.86	5.5	83	55
Nic Claxton	3.04	6.6	28	20

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.

Dallas Mavericks

Jalen Brunson drew 0.22 charges per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 15 of 386 in the league.
Maxi Kleber drew 0.17 charges per game over his 58 games.
He ranks 24 of 386 in the league.
Dwight Powell contested 8.1 shots per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 41 of 386 in the league.

Brooklyn Nets

Nic Claxton contested 9.1 shots per game over his 47 games.
He ranks 24 of 386 in the league.
Bruce Brown deflected 2.3 passes per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 36 of 386 in the league.
Kevin Durant contested 8.1 shots per game over his 55 games.
He ranks 42 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 Brooklyn Nets have won 9 of their 28 games against the Dallas Mavericks.

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Game context

Attendance

17.981

101.4% of capacity

Barclays Center · Brooklyn

Scoring

224

combined points

2.8 above the season average (221.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

18 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors