Toronto Raptors – Detroit Pistons · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 25 November 2024

TOR100–102DET

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 54 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.

↑ DET winsTOR wins ↓

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

This is how the game was decided.

Jaden Ivey decided it, the Detroit Pistons player with the most points (25, with 5 rebounds and 8 assists; +25 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 Detroit Pistons 102-100 Toronto Raptors (November 25, 2024) was hit by Jaden Ivey: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Detroit Pistons up 102-100. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Detroit Pistons 102-100 Toronto Raptors (November 25, 2024) was a 9-0 run by the Toronto Raptors between the first quarter and the second quarter, from 17-29 to 26-29. The Detroit Pistons' best was a 8-0 run in the first quarter (from 9:53 to 8:18), from 6-4 to 14-4.

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Play: Jaden Ivey makes 8-foot two point shot.

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.

Jaden Ivey 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 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Ivey 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.

25 November 2024 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401704844:759; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · TOR

Barnes · Barrett · Mitchell · Agbaji · Mogbo

Closing lineup · DET

Harris · Ivey · Hardaway · Beasley · Fontecchio

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TOR

Scottie Barnes

37′ · -2

RJ Barrett

34′ · -16

Davion Mitchell

31′ · -13

Jakob Poeltl

28′ · -13

Ochai Agbaji

24′ · -26

Chris Boucher

22′ · +11

Bruno Fernando

14′ · +13

Jamison Battle

22′ · +20

Jamal Shead

17′ · +11

Jonathan Mogbo

12′ · +5

DET

Tobias Harris

37′ · +10

Jaden Ivey

36′ · +25

Tim Hardaway Jr.

35′ · +12

Malik Beasley

33′ · +10

Jalen Duren

25′ · +16

Isaiah Stewart

23′ · -16

Ausar Thompson

16′ · -9

Marcus Sasser

14′ · -22

Ronald Holland II

11′ · -2

Simone Fontecchio

9′ · -14

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

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Toronto Raptors

Poeltl, Barrett, Agbaji, Mitchell, and Barnes played 13.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 15 points.
Boucher, Fernando, Barrett, Shead, and Battle played 4.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Boucher, Fernando, Barnes, Shead, and Battle played 4.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 8 points.

Detroit Pistons

Beasley, Ivey, Duren, Harris, and Hardaway played 14.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 18 points.
Ivey, Duren, Thompson, Harris, and Hardaway played 6.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Beasley, Stewart, Ivey, Holland, and Hardaway played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.

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Toronto Raptors

Poeltl, Barrett, Mitchell, Barnes, and Battle played 4.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Boucher, Agbaji, Barnes, Shead, and Mogbo played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Poeltl, Barrett, Mitchell, Barnes, and Mogbo played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Poeltl, Barrett, Agbaji, Barnes, and Shead played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Boucher, Fernando, Barrett, Agbaji, and Mitchell played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Poeltl, Boucher, Mitchell, Barnes, and Battle played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Poeltl, Boucher, Barrett, Agbaji, and Mitchell played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Boucher, Barnes, Shead, Mogbo, and Battle played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Boucher, Fernando, Barrett, Mitchell, and Battle played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Poeltl, Mitchell, Barnes, Mogbo, and Battle played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Fernando, Mitchell, Barnes, Mogbo, and Battle played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Poeltl, Barrett, Agbaji, Mitchell, and Mogbo played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.

Detroit Pistons

Beasley, Stewart, Ivey, Thompson, and Harris played 3.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 6 points.
Stewart, Sasser, Fontecchio, Thompson, and Holland played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Stewart, Ivey, Holland, Harris, and Hardaway played 2.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Stewart, Sasser, Fontecchio, and Harris played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Beasley, Stewart, Sasser, Fontecchio, and Holland played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Beasley, Duren, Sasser, Harris, and Hardaway played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Beasley, Stewart, Sasser, Thompson, and Harris played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Stewart, Ivey, Thompson, Harris, and Hardaway played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Stewart, Sasser, Holland, Harris, and Hardaway played 1.4 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.

Jaden Ivey covered 4.52 km, more than anyone in the game.

Scottie Barnes touched the ball 96 times, a game high.
Scottie Barnes made 64 passes, a game high.
Jalen Duren defended 12 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 4.
Isaiah Stewart had 21 rebound chances, a game high.

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Toronto Raptors

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Scottie Barnes	4.31	6.8	96	64
RJ Barrett	4.22	6.9	67	42
Davion Mitchell	3.85	6.9	59	49
Jakob Poeltl	3.60	7.2	53	40
Ochai Agbaji	3.04	7.1	23	17
Jamison Battle	2.43	6.8	21	11
Chris Boucher	2.30	6.1	17	7
Jamal Shead	1.91	6.8	37	28
Bruno Fernando	1.48	6.5	31	20
Jonathan Mogbo	1.38	6.4	19	15

Detroit Pistons

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jaden Ivey	4.52	6.8	86	62
Tobias Harris	4.41	6.6	49	34
Tim Hardaway Jr.	3.89	6.3	29	19
Malik Beasley	3.64	6.5	50	28
Jalen Duren	3.02	6.8	52

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 2024-25 regular season, not this game.

Toronto Raptors

Jakob Poeltl contested 8.9 shots per game over his 57 games.
He ranks 17 of 388 in the league.
Davion Mitchell drew 0.14 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 23 of 388 in the league.
Scottie Barnes recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 26 of 388 in the league.

Detroit Pistons

Tim Hardaway Jr. drew 0.24 charges per game over his 76 games.
He ranks 6 of 388 in the league.
Ausar Thompson deflected 3.6 passes per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 7 of 388 in the league.
Jaden Ivey recovered 0.9 loose balls per game over his 30 games.
He ranks 9 of 388 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 Detroit Pistons have won 71 of their 117 games against the Toronto Raptors.

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Game context

Attendance

18.421

90.6% of capacity

Little Caesars Arena · Detroit

Scoring

202

combined points

25.7 below the season average (227.7)

⚖️ The last two minutes

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

13 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors