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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | OT | Final/OT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pacers | 39 | 30 | 17 | 35 | 13 | 134 |
 Timberwolves | 33 | 40 | 19 | 29 | 7 | 128 |
INDTeam statsMIN| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IND | 49-9750.5% | 13-2650.0% | 23-2785.2% | 51 | 31 | 14 |
| MIN | 45-10742.1% | 15-4037.5% | 23-2592.0% | 44 | 37 | 11 |
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Indiana Pacers134| 46 | 36, Career high (his best before, 33) | 13-21 | 1-2 | 9-11 | +6 | +15.3 | ||||||||
| 41 | 32 | 12-22 | 6-7 | 2-2 | +20 | +5.9 | ||||||||
| 37 | 11 | 3-8 | 2-5 | 0 | 3-3 | 0 | +14 | −0.4 | ||||||
| 30 | 8 | 3-7 | 0-2 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | +10 | −4.2 | ||||||
| 27 | 8 | 4-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −11 | −8.1 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 28 | 18 | 6-14 | 2-5 | 0 | 4-5 | 0 | 0 | −4 | +0.3 | |||||
| 28 | 6 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | −1.3 | |||||
| 27 | 15 | 5-9 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | +0.1 | |||||
| Team | 134 | 49-9750.5% | 13-2650.0% | 51 | 31 | 14 | 18 | 23-2785.2% | 10 | 5 | 7 | |||
Bench 39 points on 14 for 29 shooting
Did not play: Edmond Sumner, JaKarr Sampson, Kelan Martin and Goga Bitadze (coach’s decision).
Minnesota Timberwolves128| 39 | 8 | 3-15 | 0-4 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −23 | −10.9 | ||||
| 37 | 30 | 8-19 | 2-7 | 12-12 | −18 | +7.2 | ||||||||
| 37 | 11 | 4-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3.8 | ||||||
| 35 | 20, Season high (his best before, 17) | 6-13 | 3-6 | 5-5 | 0 | 0 | −10 | +8.9 | ||||||
| 19 | 2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −3 | +0.1 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 41 | 31 | 13-25 | 5-13 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | +5 | +2.3 | ||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | +4 | −0.9 | |||||||
| 18 | 18 | 8-14 | 2-3 | 0-1 | +4 | +9.1 | ||||||||
| 15 | 2 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | +9 | −0.8 | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | +2.5 | |||
| Team | 128 | 45-10742.1% | 15-4037.5% | 44 | 37 | 11 | 20 | 23-2592.0% | 11 | 12 | 8 | |||
Bench 57 points on 23 for 48 shooting
Did not play: Jake Layman, Ed Davis and Juancho Hernangomez (coach’s decision).
Pacers134Timberwolves128ClickTap 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.
Domantas Sabonis had a career-high 36 points (24 in the paint), 16 rebounds and 10 assists, his seventh career triple-double, and the Indiana Pacers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 134-128 in overtime.
Domantas Sabonis made 2 free throws with 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie it at 121, and the Pacers outscored the Timberwolves 13-7 in overtime.
The Timberwolves had the ball down 3 with 35 seconds left, but Sabonis stole the ball from Malik Beasley. A 3-pointer would have tied the game.
During clutch time, the Pacers outscored the Timberwolves 31-24. Jeremy Lamb scored 9 of the Pacers’ 31 on 3 for 4 shooting and 2 for 2 at the line. In the fourth quarter and overtime, Beasley had 2 of his 3 steals, and the Timberwolves scored 2 points off them. In that stretch, Ricky Rubio had 7 of his 13 assists, 1 of them on a basket by Jaden McDaniels that tied the game and 2 on baskets by Beasley and Anthony Edwards that put the Timberwolves ahead.
Malcolm Brogdon had 32 points (18 on 6 3-pointers), 9 rebounds and 7 assists. The Pacers had 2 30-point scorers. Sabonis and Brogdon set each other up for 9 baskets and 21 points, 3 of them in the fourth quarter or overtime.
For the Timberwolves, Beasley had 31 points and 3 steals off the bench, and Karl-Anthony Towns added 30 points and 10 rebounds. Rubio had a season-high 20 points and 13 assists. Naz Reid had 18 points, 9 rebounds and 3 blocks off the bench. The Timberwolves had 2 30-point scorers.
The Pacers shot 50.5% from the field and 50.0% from 3 to the Timberwolves’ 42.1% and 37.5%. They outscored the Timberwolves 20-8 on the fast break. The Pacers were outscored 22-10 in 5 minutes with Lamb, McDermott, McConnell, Sabonis and Holiday on the floor together.
Indiana PacersMinnesota 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 Pacers’ chance bottomed out at 5.3% (4th quarter, 46s left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
111 points from the field on 97 shots: 6.0 more than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 19-38 | 50.0% | 64% |
| In the paint | 13-22 | 59.1% | 43% |
| Mid-range | 4-11 | 36.4% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 1-3 | 33.3% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 12-23 | 52.2% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl-Anthony Towns | 47 | 15 | 6-12 | 0 |
| Naz Reid | 17 | 7 | 3-4 | +2 |
| Ricky Rubio | 8 | 6 | 2-2 | +3 |
| Jaden McDaniels | 7 | 8 | 3-4 | +6 |
| Everyone else | 19 | 6 | 3-3 | 0 |
The tracking credits him with 42 points on 98 possessions. He usually scores about 31 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricky Rubio | 26 | 4 | 2-4 | −4 |
| Malik Beasley | 14 | 0 | 0-2 | −4 |
| Jaden McDaniels | 13 | 7 | 3-4 | +3 |
| Anthony Edwards | 10 | 6 | 2-3 | +3 |
| Everyone else | 20 | 14 | 5-10 | +8 |
The tracking credits him with 31 points on 83 possessions. He usually scores about 25 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Okogie | 16 | 0 | 0-2 | −4 |
| Jaden McDaniels | 9 | 4 | 2-4 | +2 |
| Ricky Rubio | 9 | 0 | 0-1 | −2 |
| Malik Beasley | 7 | 4 | 1-1 | +2 |
| Everyone else | 15 | 10 | 4-7 | +6 |
The tracking credits him with 18 points on 56 possessions. He usually scores about 13 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
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Highest Leverage Moments
Beasley 25' 3PT Jump Shot (24 PTS) (Rubio 8 AST)
Q4 2:22
29.5%
43→73
Sabonis Free Throw 2 of 2 (31 PTS)
Q4 0:11
26.0%
79→53
McDaniels 25' 3PT Jump Shot (11 PTS) (Rubio 7 AST)
Q4 3:07
25.7%
29→55
A. Holiday 3PT Jump Shot (13 PTS) (Sabonis 8 AST)
Q4 2:39
24.9%
68→43
Beasley 1' Driving Dunk (29 PTS)
OT 1:05
23.1%
4→27
