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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cavaliers | 27 | 27 | 28 | 31 | 113 |
 Mavericks | 39 | 30 | 21 | 20 | 110 |
CLETeam statsDAL| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLE | 40-9243.5% | 17-4339.5% | 16-2369.6% | 57 | 33 | 16 |
| DAL | 39-8844.3% | 10-3727.0% | 22-2684.6% | 37 | 21 | 10 |
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Cleveland Cavaliers113| 39 | 22, Season high (his best before, 18) | 7-13 | 4-7, Ties his career high | 4-5 | 0 | +4 | +0.2 | |||||||
| 35 | 24 | 9-17 | 0-0 | 6-6 | 0 | +14 | +12.3 | |||||||
| 34 | 8 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 0-0 | +4 | −4.0 | ||||||||
| 32 | 3 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +15 | −6.9 | ||||
| 30 | 9 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 1-2 | +9 | +2.8 | ||||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 28 | 29 | 9-19 | 6-11, Season high (his best before, 4) | 5-8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −16 | +5.3 | |||||
| 24 | 16 | 6-11 | 4-8, Season high (his best before, 3) | 0 | 0-2 | 0 | −15 | +2.5 | ||||||
| 13 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −11 | −6.7 | |||||
| 6 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +11 | −2.4 | ||||
| Team | 113 | 40-9243.5% | 17-4339.5% | 57 | 33 | 16 | 21 | 16-2369.6% | 18 | 7 | 4 | |||
Bench 47 points on 16 for 36 shooting
Did not play: Isaiah Mobley and Damian Jones (coach’s decision); Sam Merrill (injury/illness).
Dallas Mavericks110| 37 | 39 | 14-29 | 3-10 | 0 | 8-10 | 0 | −9 | +6.8 | ||||||
| 36 | 12 | 5-13 | 0-4 | 2-2 | −8 | −5.0 | ||||||||
| 33 | 13 | 4-8 | 1-3 | 0 | 4-4 | 0 | 0 | +2 | +4.1 | |||||
| 30 | 14 | 4-13 | 1-5 | 0 | 5-6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | −5.0 | ||||
| 25 | 4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | −7 | −2.4 | |||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 28 | 19 | 6-11 | 5-9, Season high (his best before, 4) | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | +7.0 | ||||||
| 26 | 4 | 2-7 | 0-4 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −5 | −4.8 | |||||
| 21 | 2 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +12 | −1.4 | ||||||
| 5 | 3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | −0.9 | |||
| Team | 110 | 39-8844.3% | 10-3727.0% | 37 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 22-2684.6% | 7 | 12 | 7 | |||
Bench 28 points on 10 for 23 shooting
Did not play: Jaden Hardy, Richaun Holmes, Olivier-Maxence Prosper, Markieff Morris and A.J. Lawson (coach’s decision).
Cavaliers113Mavericks110ClickTap 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.
Jarrett Allen had 24 points (18 in the paint) and a season-high 23 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied from 20 points down in the second quarter to beat the Dallas Mavericks 113-110.
The Cavaliers trailed 50-30 with 9:45 left in the second quarter and 69-54 at halftime. They outscored the Mavericks 83-60 the rest of the way.
The Mavericks had the ball down 3 with 8.3 seconds left, but Max Strus blocked Seth Curry’s fadeaway 3-pointer, lifting the Cavaliers’ chance to win from 95% to over 99%. It would have tied the game.
During clutch time, the Cavaliers outscored the Mavericks 13-0. Caris LeVert scored 8 of the Cavaliers’ 13 on 2 for 4 shooting and 3 for 4 at the line.
LeVert had 29 points and 7 assists off the bench, and Isaac Okoro added a season-high 22 points (12 on 4 3-pointers). LeVert scored 15 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter. The Cavaliers had 3 20-point scorers.
For the Mavericks, Luka Dončić had 39 points and 6 assists, and Curry added 19 points with 5 3-pointers off the bench.
The Mavericks gave up 18 offensive rebounds, about 5 more than usual for the shots the Cavaliers missed. The Cavaliers outscored the Mavericks 17-5 in 6 minutes with LeVert, Allen, Strus, Wade and Okoro on the floor together.
Cleveland CavaliersDallas MavericksPS, 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 Cavaliers’ chance bottomed out at 5% (2nd quarter, 9:45 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
97 points from the field on 92 shots: 5.0 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 16-25 | 64.0% | 66% |
| In the paint | 7-23 | 30.4% | 44% |
| Mid-range | 0-1 | 0.0% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 7-15 | 46.7% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 10-28 | 35.7% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dante Exum | 14 | 7 | 2-5 | +3 |
| Derrick Jones Jr. | 13 | 0 | 0-3 | −4 |
| Luka Dončić | 8 | 8 | 3-4 | +6 |
| Josh Green | 7 | 3 | 1-3 | +1 |
| Everyone else | 16 | 11 | 4-7 | +7 |
The tracking credits him with 29 points on 57 possessions. He usually scores about 15 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dereck Lively II | 31 | 10 | 4-9 | +3 |
| Grant Williams | 20 | 4 | 2-2 | −1 |
| Luka Dončić | 11 | 4 | 2-3 | +1 |
| Derrick Jones Jr. | 6 | 8 | 3-5 | +7 |
| Everyone else | 11 | 6 | 3-5 | +3 |
The tracking credits him with 32 points on 79 possessions. He usually scores about 18 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luka Dončić | 22 | 5 | 2-4 | +2 |
| Tim Hardaway Jr. | 15 | 6 | 2-3 | +4 |
| Seth Curry | 14 | 4 | 1-1 | +2 |
| Derrick Jones Jr. | 11 | 2 | 1-4 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 14 | 7 | 2-3 | +5 |
The tracking credits him with 24 points on 76 possessions. He usually scores about 12 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.
DAL win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
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Highest Leverage Moments
LeVert 27' 3PT Pullup Jump Shot (26 PTS)
Q4 2:03
32.9%
62→30
Exum 26' 3PT Jump Shot (9 PTS) (Hardaway Jr. 1 AST)
Q4 10:28
11.6%
66→77
LeVert 25' 3PT Jump Shot (17 PTS) (Niang 3 AST)
Q4 11:40
11.0%
82→71
LeVert 26' 3PT Jump Shot (11 PTS) (Strus 2 AST)
Q3 4:23
10.9%
77→66
Porter Jr. Running Dunk (9 PTS) (Strus 1 AST)
Q3 9:51
10.4%
88→78
