Detroit Pistons – Golden State Warriors · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 4 January 2023

DET122–119GSW

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 95% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 27 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.

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

This is how the game was decided.

Bojan Bogdanovic decided it, the Detroit Pistons player with the most points (29, with 4 rebounds and 5 assists; +5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Killian Hayes's (+12). 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 Golden State Warriors 119-122 Detroit Pistons (January 4, 2023) was hit by Saddiq Bey: a three-pointer with 0.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Detroit Pistons up 122-119. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Golden State Warriors 119-122 Detroit Pistons (January 4, 2023) was a 8-0 run by the Golden State Warriors in the first quarter (from 2:48 to 1:52), from 18-26 to 26-26. The Detroit Pistons' best was a 8-0 run in the first quarter (from 8:07 to 6:57), from 8-9 to 16-9.

What were the keys of the last Golden State Warriors vs Detroit Pistons game?

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Play: Saddiq Bey makes 28-foot three point jumper (Killian Hayes 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.

Saddiq Bey 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 3 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Bey 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 January 2023 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401468728:635; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · DET

Hayes · Bogdanovic · Stewart · Burks · Bey

Closing lineup · GSW

DiVincenzo · Thompson · Looney · Lamb · Jerome

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DET

Killian Hayes

35′ · +12

Bojan Bogdanovic

33′ · +5

Jalen Duren

32′ · +5

Isaiah Stewart

31′ · +4

Jaden Ivey

27′ · -3

Alec Burks

31′ · 0

Saddiq Bey

29′ · -3

Hamidou Diallo

18′ · -5

Rodney McGruder

5′ · 0

GSW

Donte DiVincenzo

34′ · -14

Klay Thompson

34′ · 0

Jordan Poole

34′ · +4

Draymond Green

30′ · 0

Kevon Looney

28′ · -5

Anthony Lamb

28′ · +2

Ty Jerome

27′ · -2

Moses Moody

15′ · +3

Patrick Baldwin Jr.

11′ · -3

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Detroit Pistons

Hayes, Stewart, Ivey, Duren, and Bogdanovic played 14.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Hayes, Bey, Stewart, Burks, and Bogdanovic played 9.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Diallo, Bey, Stewart, Ivey, and Burks played 7.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

Golden State Warriors

Looney, DiVincenzo, Poole, Thompson, and Green played 9.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
DiVincenzo, Poole, Lamb, Thompson, and Green played 8.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Jerome, Poole, Moody, Baldwin, and Green played 4.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

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Detroit Pistons

Diallo, Bey, Ivey, Duren, and Burks played 5.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 10 points.
Hayes, Duren, Burks, Bogdanovic, and McGruder played 4.7 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Diallo, Hayes, Bey, Duren, and Bogdanovic played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Hayes, Bey, Duren, Burks, and Bogdanovic played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Diallo, Hayes, Bey, Duren, and Burks played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.

Golden State Warriors

Looney, Jerome, Poole, Lamb, and Moody played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Looney, DiVincenzo, Jerome, Lamb, and Thompson played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Looney, DiVincenzo, Poole, Lamb, and Thompson played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.
DiVincenzo, Jerome, Poole, Baldwin, and Green played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Jerome, Lamb, Moody, Thompson, and Green played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Looney, Jerome, Lamb, Moody, and Thompson played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Looney, DiVincenzo, Jerome, Baldwin, and Thompson played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
DiVincenzo, Jerome, Baldwin, Thompson, and Green played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 7 points.
Looney, DiVincenzo, Jerome, Lamb, and Moody played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Looney, DiVincenzo, Jerome, Poole, and Lamb played 1.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 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.

Donte DiVincenzo covered 4.07 km, more than anyone in the game.

Killian Hayes touched the ball 79 times, a game high.
Killian Hayes made 62 passes, a game high.
Kevon Looney had 21 rebound chances, a game high.

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Detroit Pistons

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Killian Hayes	3.97	6.4	79	62
Bojan Bogdanovic	3.93	6.7	48	29
Jalen Duren	3.80	6.8	43	32
Saddiq Bey	3.59	6.9	45	28
Isaiah Stewart	3.48	6.3	37	22
Alec Burks	3.41	6.1	42	30
Jaden Ivey	3.35	6.9	51	32
Hamidou Diallo	2.27	7.2	27	19
Rodney McGruder	0.63	7.1	1	0

Golden State Warriors

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Donte DiVincenzo	4.07	6.7	48	41
Klay Thompson	3.96	6.5	45	20
Jordan Poole	3.86	6.4	75	45
Anthony Lamb	3.52	7.0	40	31
Draymond Green	3.25	6.1	65

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.

Detroit Pistons

Isaiah Stewart contested 10.8 shots per game over his 50 games.
He ranks 9 of 382 in the league.
Killian Hayes deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 14 of 382 in the league.
Saddiq Bey recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 32 of 382 in the league.

Golden State Warriors

Draymond Green deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 16 of 382 in the league.
Kevon Looney contested 9.4 shots per game over his 82 games.
He ranks 20 of 382 in the league.
Donte DiVincenzo deflected 2.5 passes per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 29 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 Golden State Warriors have won 28 of their 56 games against the Detroit Pistons.

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Game context

Attendance

18.064

100% of capacity

Chase Center · San Francisco

Scoring

241

combined points

11.6 above the season average (229.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

24 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors