Sacramento Kings – Utah Jazz · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 3 January 2023

SAC117–115UTA

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Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 92% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· 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.

↑ UTA winsSAC wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

De'Aaron Fox decided it, the Sacramento Kings player with the most points (37, with 3 rebounds and 6 assists; -6 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Domantas Sabonis's (+20). 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 Utah Jazz 115-117 Sacramento Kings (January 3, 2023) was hit by De'Aaron Fox: a layup with 0.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Sacramento Kings up 117-115. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Utah Jazz 115-117 Sacramento Kings (January 3, 2023) was a 13-0 run by the Sacramento Kings in the first quarter (from 7:46 to 5:54), from 10-14 to 23-14. The Utah Jazz' best was a 7-0 run in the third quarter (from 8:44 to 7:49), from 58-70 to 65-70.

What were the keys of the last Utah Jazz vs Sacramento Kings game?

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Play: De'Aaron Fox makes driving layup.

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.

De'Aaron Fox decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.1 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 9 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Fox 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.

3 January 2023 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401468718:700; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · SAC

Sabonis · Fox · Barnes · Murray · Huerter

Closing lineup · UTA

Markkanen · Clarkson · Conley · Olynyk · Vanderbilt

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SAC

Domantas Sabonis

39′ · +21

De'Aaron Fox

38′ · -6

Harrison Barnes

37′ · +4

Keegan Murray

37′ · +19

Kevin Huerter

32′ · +18

Davion Mitchell

18′ · -14

Malik Monk

15′ · -6

Richaun Holmes

9′ · -13

Trey Lyles

9′ · -12

KZ Okpala

7′ · -1

UTA

Lauri Markkanen

36′ · -6

Jordan Clarkson

35′ · -15

Mike Conley

33′ · +11

Kelly Olynyk

28′ · -5

Jarred Vanderbilt

25′ · +2

Walker Kessler

17′ · -5

Nickeil Alexander-Walker

15′ · -13

Rudy Gay

13′ · +3

Malik Beasley

31′ · +12

Ochai Agbaji

7′ · +6

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Sacramento Kings

Sabonis, Fox, Huerter, Murray, and Barnes played 23.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 12 points.
Sabonis, Huerter, Mitchell, Murray, and Barnes played 7.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Holmes, Lyles, Fox, Monk, and Mitchell played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.

Utah Jazz

Markkanen, Vanderbilt, Conley, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 13.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Vanderbilt, Conley, and Clarkson played 4.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Beasley, Agbaji, Kessler, Gay, and Conley played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

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Sacramento Kings

Holmes, Lyles, Fox, Monk, and Okpala played 3.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Sabonis, Monk, Mitchell, Murray, and Barnes played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Sabonis, Fox, Monk, Okpala, and Murray played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Sabonis, Fox, Monk, Mitchell, and Barnes played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 6 points.
Sabonis, Fox, Huerter, Okpala, and Murray played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Utah Jazz

Beasley, Kessler, Gay, Conley, and Clarkson played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Beasley, Markkanen, Conley, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Kessler, Gay, and Conley played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 9 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Alexander-Walker, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Beasley, Vanderbilt, Alexander-Walker, Agbaji, and Olynyk played 2.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Markkanen, Alexander-Walker, Kessler, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Vanderbilt, Alexander-Walker, and Olynyk played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Alexander-Walker, Kessler, and Gay played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Beasley, Markkanen, Vanderbilt, Alexander-Walker, and Clarkson played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Beasley, Kessler, Conley, Olynyk, and Clarkson played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Markkanen, Alexander-Walker, Kessler, Gay, and Clarkson played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Vanderbilt, Agbaji, Conley, and Olynyk played 1.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 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.

Domantas Sabonis covered 4.75 km, more than anyone in the game.

Domantas Sabonis touched the ball 103 times, a game high.
Domantas Sabonis made 83 passes, a game high.
Domantas Sabonis defended 12 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 8.
Domantas Sabonis had 24 rebound chances, a game high.

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Sacramento Kings

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Domantas Sabonis	4.75	6.8	103	83
De'Aaron Fox	4.71	6.8	87	56
Harrison Barnes	4.67	6.9	56	37
Keegan Murray	4.62	6.9	47	33
Kevin Huerter	3.89	6.8	35	20
Davion Mitchell	2.28	7.1	34	30
Malik Monk	1.87	6.7	27	18
Trey Lyles	1.09	6.7	15	9
Richaun Holmes	1.05	6.5	7	6
KZ Okpala	0.95	7.4	5	3

Utah Jazz

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Lauri Markkanen	4.46	6.8	61	38
Mike Conley	4.15	6.8	76	59
Jordan Clarkson	4.14	6.6	56	33
Malik Beasley	3.48	6.2	38	23
Kelly Olynyk	3.43	6.7	54	44

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.

Sacramento Kings

De'Aaron Fox deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 18 of 382 in the league.
Domantas Sabonis contested 9.5 shots per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 18 of 382 in the league.
Davion Mitchell drew 0.19 charges per game over his 77 games.
He ranks 23 of 382 in the league.

Utah Jazz

Walker Kessler defended 6.7 shots at the rim per game over his 74 games, and opponents made 13 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 3 of 149 in the league.
Lauri Markkanen defended 5.7 shots at the rim per game over his 66 games, and opponents made 12 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 5 of 149 in the league.
Kelly Olynyk drew 0.18 charges per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 25 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 Utah Jazz have won 63 of their 124 games against the Sacramento Kings.

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Game context

Attendance

18.206

99.5% of capacity

Delta Center · Salt Lake City

Scoring

232

combined points

2.6 above the season average (229.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

29 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: Jump Ball Violation · 01:46.6

Lauri Markkanen → Keegan Murray

Markkanen (UTA) and Murray (SAC) both come together as they pursue the loose ball and briefly become tangled up with neither having control of the ball.