Portland Trail Blazers – Phoenix Suns · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 November 2022

POR108–106PHX

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 88% of NBA games since 2017

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

↑ PHX winsPOR wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Jerami Grant decided it, the Portland Trail Blazers player with the most points (30, with 2 rebounds and 5 assists; -2 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Nassir Little'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 Phoenix Suns 106-108 Portland Trail Blazers (November 4, 2022) was hit by Jerami Grant: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Portland Trail Blazers up 108-106. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Phoenix Suns 106-108 Portland Trail Blazers (November 4, 2022) was a 8-0 run by the Phoenix Suns in the first quarter (from 10:12 to 8:42), from 3-5 to 11-5. The Portland Trail Blazers' best was a 8-0 run in the second quarter (from 4:13 to 2:06), from 46-39 to 54-39.

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Play: Jerami Grant makes 13-foot two point shot (Justise Winslow 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.

Jerami Grant decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of 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 Grant 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.

4 November 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401468285:671; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · POR

Grant · Hart · Winslow · Nurkic · Johnson

Closing lineup · PHX

Booker · Bridges · Ayton · Craig · Biyombo

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POR

Jerami Grant

39′ · -2

Josh Hart

38′ · 0

Justise Winslow

32′ · +6

Shaedon Sharpe

28′ · -10

Jusuf Nurkic

25′ · -3

Keon Johnson

23′ · +2

Nassir Little

23′ · +10

Drew Eubanks

23′ · +3

Jabari Walker

9′ · +4

PHX

Devin Booker

38′ · +3

Mikal Bridges

38′ · +7

Chris Paul

34′ · +4

Deandre Ayton

30′ · +3

Cameron Johnson

5′ · +8

Torrey Craig

23′ · -4

Landry Shamet

19′ · -5

Jock Landale

15′ · +3

Damion Lee

20′ · -6

Josh Okogie

5′ · -7

Dario Saric

9′ · -8

Bismack Biyombo

4′ · -8

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Portland Trail Blazers

Winslow, Hart, Sharpe, Grant, and Nurkic played 10.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Winslow, Hart, Eubanks, Little, and Grant played 6.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Hart, Johnson, Sharpe, Grant, and Nurkic played 6.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.

Phoenix Suns

Paul, Booker, Craig, Bridges, and Ayton played 17.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Paul, Booker, Bridges, Ayton, and Johnson played 5.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
Booker, Craig, Bridges, Shamet, and Landale played 5.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.

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Portland Trail Blazers

Winslow, Hart, Johnson, Grant, and Nurkic played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Winslow, Eubanks, Little, Sharpe, and Walker played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Hart, Eubanks, Little, Johnson, and Grant played 3.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Hart, Eubanks, Johnson, Sharpe, and Grant played 3.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Winslow, Eubanks, Little, Johnson, and Walker played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Winslow, Hart, Little, Grant, and Nurkic played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Eubanks, Little, Johnson, Sharpe, and Grant played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Eubanks, Little, Johnson, Sharpe, and Walker played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Winslow, Hart, Little, Walker, and Nurkic played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Phoenix Suns

Paul, Booker, Lee, Bridges, and Ayton played 4.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Booker, Lee, Shamet, Landale, and Saric played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Lee, Okogie, Shamet, Landale, and Saric played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Paul, Lee, Bridges, Shamet, and Ayton played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Paul, Lee, Bridges, Shamet, and Landale played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Booker, Lee, Okogie, Shamet, and Landale played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Paul, Lee, Shamet, Biyombo, and Saric played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Lee, Okogie, Shamet, Biyombo, and Saric played 1.1 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.

Josh Hart covered 4.62 km, more than anyone in the game.

Justise Winslow touched the ball 89 times, a game high.
Justise Winslow had 13 rebound chances, a game high.

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Portland Trail Blazers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Josh Hart	4.62	6.5	64	52
Jerami Grant	4.39	6.2	71	45
Justise Winslow	3.67	6.4	89	73
Shaedon Sharpe	3.52	7.0	29	17
Keon Johnson	2.98	6.8	42	24
Drew Eubanks	2.82	6.6	21	14
Nassir Little	2.75	6.4	27	18
Jusuf Nurkić	2.59	5.6	54	35
Jabari Walker	1.19	7.0	9	6

Phoenix Suns

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Mikal Bridges	4.42	6.4	54	41
Devin Booker	4.25	6.0	81	48
Chris Paul	3.46	5.5	85	73
Deandre Ayton	3.06	5.6	45	28
Torrey Craig	2.96	6.9	28	21

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 2022-23 regular season, not this game.

Portland Trail Blazers

Josh Hart recovered 0.9 loose balls per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 7 of 382 in the league.
Jusuf Nurkić contested 8.9 shots per game over his 52 games.
He ranks 23 of 382 in the league.
Jerami Grant drew 0.13 charges per game over his 63 games.
He ranks 40 of 382 in the league.

Phoenix Suns

Deandre Ayton contested 9.6 shots per game over his 67 games.
He ranks 17 of 382 in the league.
Devin Booker recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 52 games.
He ranks 22 of 382 in the league.
Cameron Johnson deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 42 games.
He ranks 28 of 382 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 Phoenix Suns have won 148 of their 282 games against the Portland Trail Blazers.

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Game context

Attendance

17.071

100% of capacity

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Scoring

214

combined points

15.4 below the season average (229.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

34 calls reviewed3 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: Traveling · 00:00.9

Jerami Grant → Suns

Grant (POR) gathers the ball with one hand and then takes three steps before releasing the shot attempt.

Turnover: Traveling · 00:01.1

Mikal Bridges → Trail Blazers

Bridges (PHX) brings two hands to the ball and gathers it on his right foot. He then comes down on two feet for his first step and can choose either foot as his pivot foot. He establishes his left foot as his pivot by stepping with his right and then leaves the ground and releases his shot attempt.

Foul: Defense 3 Second · 00:13.1

Keon Johnson → Suns

Johnson (POR) has a foot on the lane line for more than three seconds without imminently actively guarding an opponent.