Milwaukee Bucks – Brooklyn Nets · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 31 March 2022

MIL120–119BKN

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 98% of NBA games since 2017

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

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

This is how the game was decided.

Giannis Antetokounmpo decided it, the Milwaukee Bucks player with the most points (44, with 14 rebounds and 6 assists; +12 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 Brooklyn Nets 119-120 Milwaukee Bucks (March 31, 2022) was hit by Giannis Antetokounmpo: a free throw with 3.0 s left in overtime, putting the Milwaukee Bucks up 120-119. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Brooklyn Nets 119-120 Milwaukee Bucks (March 31, 2022) was a 11-0 run by the Brooklyn Nets in the fourth quarter (from 7:31 to 4:58), from 92-96 to 103-96. The Milwaukee Bucks' best was a 9-0 run between the fourth quarter and overtime, from 103-110 to 112-110.

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Play: Giannis Antetokounmpo 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.

Giannis Antetokounmpo decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 3 seconds left in overtime 1, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 8 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Antetokounmpo 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.

31 March 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401360967:769; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2021-22 regular season, not this game.

Milwaukee Bucks

Jrue Holiday deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 66 games.
He ranks 14 of 386 in the league.
Giannis Antetokounmpo defended 5.1 shots at the rim per game over his 67 games, and opponents made 11 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 7 of 131 in the league.
Bobby Portis contested 9.0 shots per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 25 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 20 of their 56 games against the Milwaukee Bucks.

20-36record of the Brooklyn Nets · NBA 2012-13 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2012-13 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

17.917

101% of capacity

Barclays Center · Brooklyn

Scoring

239

combined points

17.8 above the season average (221.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

29 calls reviewed5 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: Traveling · 00:04

Kevin Durant → Bucks

Durant (BKN) switches his pivot foot prior to the shot attempt.

Foul: Loose Ball · 00:18.8

Seth Curry → Wesley Matthews

Curry (BKN) dislodges Matthews (MIL) from his legally obtained rebounding position.

Foul: Shooting · 01:30.1

Giannis Antetokounmpo → Bruce Brown

Antetokounmpo (MIL) makes contact to Brown's (BKN) wrist and affects his putback dunk attempt.

Violation: Lane · 01:39.6

Seth Curry → Giannis Antetokounmpo

Curry (BKN) is positioned inside of the three-point arc before Antetokounmpo (MIL) releases his free throw attempt.