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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Suns | 22 | 20 | 35 | 31 | 108 |
 Timberwolves | 25 | 25 | 31 | 25 | 106 |
PHXTeam statsMIN| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHX | 33-7245.8% | 11-2445.8% | 31-3588.6% | 52 | 22 | 23 |
| MIN | 40-9542.1% | 9-2733.3% | 17-2470.8% | 31 | 21 | 6 |
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Phoenix Suns108| 32 | 15 | 4-14 | 0-1 | 7-8 | 0 | −8 | −3.5 | |||||||
| 22 | 13 | 4-9 | 0-2 | 5-7 | 0 | 0 | −21 | +1.0 | ||||||
| 21 | 4 | 2-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −17 | −11.5 | ||||||
| 20 | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0 | −18 | −2.6 | |||||||
| 16 | 3 | 1-6 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −27 | −8.2 | |||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 30 | 17 | 6-10 | 5-8, Career high (his best before, 3) | 0-0 | 0 | +25 | +3.4 | |||||||
| 28 | 12 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +23 | +8.3 | ||||||||
| 28 | 17 | 5-8 | 4-6 | 0 | 0 | 3-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +22 | +1.3 | |||
| 27 | 15 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 8-8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +22 | +3.0 | |||||
| 15 | 8 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 3-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +17 | +1.6 | |||
| 2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +7 | −0.1 | ||
| Team | 108 | 33-7245.8% | 11-2445.8% | 52 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 31-3588.6% | 13 | 4 | 3 | |||
Bench 69 points on 22 for 35 shooting
Did not play: Mike James and Greg Monroe (coach’s decision).
Minnesota Timberwolves106| 40 | 18 | 8-14 | 0-0 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | −3 | +2.3 | ||||||
| 40 | 28 | 7-17 | 4-7, Ties his career high | 10-12 | +10 | +8.8 | ||||||||
| 37 | 13 | 5-16 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0 | −7.7 | ||||||||
| 37 | 10 | 5-18 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0 | +7 | −7.3 | |||||||
| 35 | 17 | 8-14 | 1-3 | 0 | 0-1 | 0 | +3 | +5.3 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 18 | 6 | 2-7 | 1-4 | 0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −17 | −2.6 | ||||
| 16 | 2 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | −17 | −3.2 | |||||||
| 13 | 10 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | −8 | +8.0 | |||
| 6 | 2 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0.8 | |||
| Team | 106 | 40-9542.1% | 9-2733.3% | 31 | 21 | 6 | 19 | 17-2470.8% | 10 | 14 | 8 | |||
Bench 20 points on 7 for 16 shooting
Did not play: Cole Aldrich, Aaron Brooks and Shabazz Muhammad (coach’s decision); Nemanja Bjelica (injury/illness).
Suns108Timberwolves106ClickTap a team’s number to see the plays behind it.
PS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. The game’s highs are in blue, hot shooting in gold, cold in gray. ClickTap a column’s heading to sort by it.
Isaiah Canaan made 3 free throws with 6.1 seconds left, and the Phoenix Suns rallied from 15 points down in the second quarter to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 108-106 to end a 5-game losing streak.
The Suns trailed 50-35 with 1:47 left in the second quarter. They outscored the Timberwolves 73-56 the rest of the way.
The Timberwolves had the ball down 2 with 5.3 seconds left, but Alex Len blocked Jimmy Butler III’s driving layup at the rim. It would have tied the game. They had the ball down 2 after a timeout, but Butler missed a 16-foot jumper at the buzzer that would have tied it.
During clutch time, the Timberwolves outscored the Suns 11-8. Butler (No. 8 in clutch points, 2017-18) scored 4 of the Timberwolves’ 11 on 2 for 6 shooting. Early in the fourth quarter, Len had 2 steals, one of them leading to his tip-in that put the Suns ahead 92-91, and the Suns scored 5 points off them.
Canaan had 15 points and 7 assists off the bench, and Len added 12 points, 19 rebounds and 6 assists on 6 for 9 shooting off the bench.
For the Timberwolves, Karl-Anthony Towns had 28 points (12 in the third quarter) and 11 rebounds.
The Timberwolves gave up 13 offensive rebounds, about 5 more than usual for the shots the Suns missed. The Suns outscored the Timberwolves 69-20 off the bench. They did not make a field goal in the last 5:16. The Suns’ starters were outscored 44-19 in 15 minutes together.
Phoenix SunsMinnesota TimberwolvesPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes.
The five plays that moved the chance to win most, in order.
Each play from the side of the team that made it: its chance to win before and after, and the change in percentage points. On the court, each shot is the shooter’s face (gray when he missed), bigger the more it moved the chance. The Suns’ chance bottomed out at 8.4% (3rd quarter, 6:00 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
77 points from the field on 72 shots: 2.3 more than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 13-21 | 61.9% | 63% |
| In the paint | 4-8 | 50.0% | 40% |
| Mid-range | 5-19 | 26.3% | 40% |
| Corner 3 | 4-8 | 50.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 7-16 | 43.8% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamal Crawford | 12 | 0 | 0-0 | −3 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 12 | 8 | 3-3 | +5 |
| Jimmy Butler III | 12 | 3 | 1-3 | 0 |
| Marcus Georges-Hunt | 9 | 0 | 0-0 | −2 |
| Everyone else | 10 | 3 | 1-3 | +1 |
The tracking credits him with 14 points on 55 possessions. He usually scores about 12 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taj Gibson | 23 | 0 | 0-1 | −3 |
| Gorgui Dieng | 16 | 14 | 5-7 | +12 |
| Karl-Anthony Towns | 5 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Jamal Crawford | 3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 8 | 3 | 1-2 | +2 |
The tracking credits him with 17 points on 55 possessions. He usually scores about 6 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Butler III | 29 | 4 | 2-6 | −4 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 23 | 2 | 1-4 | −4 |
| Jeff Teague | 3 | 2 | 1-2 | +1 |
| Karl-Anthony Towns | 3 | 0 | 0-2 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 3 | 2 | 1-1 | +1 |
The tracking credits him with 10 points on 61 possessions. He usually scores about 17 on that many.
What the players each one guarded scored, against what they usually score on as many possessions.
Possessions, and parts of possessions when defenders switched, from the NBA’s matchup tracking. The line under a defender’s name: his share of the scorer’s possessions. Usual: what the scorer averaged a possession against every defender in the regular season, eased toward the league’s rate when he has few possessions.
MIN win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
PHX
50/50
MIN
Highest Leverage Moments
Canaan Free Throw 2 of 3 (14 PTS)
Q4 0:06
38.3%
53→14
Canaan Free Throw 1 of 3 (13 PTS)
Q4 0:06
32.2%
85→53
Gibson 1' Cutting Dunk Shot (18 PTS) (Teague 8 AST)
Q4 1:22
24.9%
37→62
Butler 1' Tip Layup Shot (10 PTS)
Q4 1:06
24.9%
37→62
Bender 3PT Jump Shot (17 PTS) (Len 6 AST)
Q4 6:24
19.3%
58→39
