Chicago Bulls – Utah Jazz · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 6 March 2024

CHI119–117UTA

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Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 89% of NBA games since 2017

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↑ UTA winsCHI wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

DeMar DeRozan decided it, the Chicago Bulls player with the most points (29, with 6 rebounds and 7 assists; +5 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Coby White's (+9). 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 117-119 Chicago Bulls (March 6, 2024) was hit by DeMar DeRozan: a free throw with 9.1 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Chicago Bulls up 118-117. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Utah Jazz 117-119 Chicago Bulls (March 6, 2024) was a 10-0 run by the Chicago Bulls between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 30-29 to 40-29. The Utah Jazz' best was a 7-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 3:34 to 2:30), from 104-111 to 111-111.

What were the keys of the last Utah Jazz vs Chicago Bulls game?

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Play: DeMar DeRozan makes free throw 1 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.

DeMar DeRozan decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 9.1 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 11 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games DeRozan 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.

6 March 2024 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401585526:612; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · CHI

White · DeRozan · Dosunmu · Caruso · Vucevic

Closing lineup · UTA

Sexton · Collins · Sensabaugh · Dunn · Clarkson

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CHI

Coby White

42′ · +7

DeMar DeRozan

38′ · +5

Ayo Dosunmu

36′ · -3

Alex Caruso

34′ · +1

Nikola Vucevic

31′ · +4

Julian Phillips

15′ · +6

Onuralp Bitim

6′ · -5

Jevon Carter

20′ · -5

Andre Drummond

17′ · -2

UTA

Collin Sexton

35′ · +4

John Collins

32′ · +4

Brice Sensabaugh

30′ · +1

Kris Dunn

29′ · -1

Luka Samanic

19′ · -2

Jordan Clarkson

34′ · -3

Talen Horton-Tucker

24′ · -10

Johnny Juzang

20′ · +3

Omer Yurtseven

16′ · -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. CHI and UTA.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Chicago Bulls

Caruso, White, Dosunmu, DeRozan, and Vucevic played 23.6 minutes together.
Caruso, Carter, White, DeRozan, and Drummond played 6.1 minutes together.
White, Dosunmu, Phillips, Bitim, and Vucevic played 3.6 minutes together.

The plus-minus of each Chicago Bulls lineup is not shown: its rotation stints do not add up with each other.

Utah Jazz

Dunn, Collins, Sexton, Samanic, and Sensabaugh played 12.2 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Dunn, Horton-Tucker, Yurtseven, Juzang, and Clarkson played 11.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Collins, Sexton, Samanic, Sensabaugh, and Clarkson played 5.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

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Chicago Bulls

Carter, White, Phillips, DeRozan, and Drummond played 3.1 minutes together.
Caruso, Carter, White, Phillips, and Drummond played 2.5 minutes together.
Carter, Dosunmu, Phillips, Bitim, and Drummond played 2.1 minutes together.
Carter, White, Dosunmu, DeRozan, and Drummond played 1.8 minutes together.
Caruso, Carter, Dosunmu, DeRozan, and Drummond played 1.5 minutes together.
White, Dosunmu, Phillips, DeRozan, and Vucevic played 1.3 minutes together.
Carter, Dosunmu, Phillips, DeRozan, and Vucevic played 1.1 minutes together.

Utah Jazz

Collins, Sexton, Horton-Tucker, Sensabaugh, and Clarkson played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 8 points.
Dunn, Collins, Sexton, Sensabaugh, and Clarkson played 3.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Collins, Sexton, Horton-Tucker, Juzang, and Clarkson played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Sexton, Horton-Tucker, Yurtseven, Juzang, and Clarkson played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Collins, Sexton, Horton-Tucker, Samanic, and Sensabaugh played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Dunn, Yurtseven, Juzang, Sensabaugh, and Clarkson played 1.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

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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.

Coby White covered 4.60 km, more than anyone in the game.

DeMar DeRozan touched the ball 77 times, a game high.
Nikola Vučević defended 9 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 8.
John Collins had 25 rebound chances, a game high.

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Chicago Bulls

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Coby White	4.60	6.1	73	55
Ayo Dosunmu	4.38	6.7	72	54
DeMar DeRozan	4.20	6.1	77	49
Alex Caruso	4.17	6.7	55	42
Nikola Vučević	3.39	6.1	65	47
Jevon Carter	2.38	6.8	19	13
Julian Phillips	1.91	7.3	16	12
Andre Drummond	1.83	6.0	21	12
Onuralp Bitim	0.72	6.5	3	2

Utah Jazz

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jordan Clarkson	4.15	6.7	49	26
Collin Sexton	3.97	6.4	70	44
John Collins	3.93	6.8	69	47
Brice Sensabaugh	3.72	7.0	28	16
Kris Dunn	3.54	6.7	64

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 2023-24 regular season, not this game.

Chicago Bulls

Alex Caruso deflected 3.8 passes per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 1 of 373 in the league.
Coby White recovered 0.9 loose balls per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 19 of 373 in the league.
Nikola Vučević contested 8.2 shots per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 24 of 373 in the league.

Utah Jazz

John Collins recovered 0.9 loose balls per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 27 of 373 in the league.
Kris Dunn deflected 2.3 passes per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 33 of 373 in the league.
Collin Sexton recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 52 of 373 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 34 of their 69 games against the Chicago Bulls.

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Game context

Attendance

18.206

99.5% of capacity

Delta Center · Salt Lake City

Scoring

236

combined points

7.6 above the season average (228.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

26 calls reviewed4 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Offensive · 00:09.3

Jordan Clarkson → Ayo Dosunmu

Clarkson (UTA) extends both arms out into Dosunmu's (CHI) front and initiates contact to create space during the inbound.

Turnover: 5 Second Violation · 00:09.3

Kris Dunn → Bulls

Dunn (UTA) does not inbound the ball within five seconds of receiving it from the game official.

Foul: Personal · 00:45.0

Nikola Vucevic → Collin Sexton

Vucevic (CHI) brings his left hand out and makes direct contact with the ball, which dislodges it from Sexton's (UTA) grasp prior to incidental contact occurring.

Stoppage: Out-of-Bounds · 01:47.2

Kris Dunn → DeMar DeRozan

Dunn (UTA) reaches in across DeRozan's (CHI) lower body, causing him to lose control of the ball out of bounds. Although possession was incorrectly given to CHI, there should have been a foul assessed to Dunn for the contact.