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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rockets | 24 | 24 | 37 | 31 | 116 |
 Clippers | 21 | 30 | 32 | 22 | 105 |
HOUTeam statsLAC| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOU | 50-10348.5% | 11-3828.9% | 5-1435.7% | 59 | 31 | 18 |
| LAC | 41-10439.4% | 8-3721.6% | 15-1788.2% | 51 | 23 | 12 |
Point at or clickTap a player to see his shots, then his whole game from there. ClickTap a number under REB, AST, STL, BLK, TO or PF to see those plays.
Houston Rockets116| 40 | 18 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 2-3 | +12 | +12.9 | ||||||||
| 36 | 21 | 9-17 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 0 | +14 | +3.3 | |||||||
| 33 | 15 | 6-19 | 2-10 | 0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | +8 | −4.2 | |||||
| 23 | 13 | 5-14 | 3-10 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +8 | −0.8 | |||||
| 21 | 5 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | +2 | −5.1 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 21 | 13 | 6-9 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0-3 | +10 | +0.3 | ||||||
| 17 | 9 | 4-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | −4.5 | ||||||
| 14 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | +0.5 | |||||
| 12 | 7 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −6 | −0.7 | ||||||
| 12 | 13 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-3 | 0 | +9 | +4.9 | ||||||
| 6 | 0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −3.0 | ||||
| 5 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | +0.1 | |||||
| Team | 116 | 50-10348.5% | 11-3828.9% | 59 | 31 | 18 | 13 | 5-1435.7% | 17 | 7 | 8 | |||
Bench 44 points on 20 for 37 shooting
LA Clippers105| 46 | 14 | 6-22 | 2-9 | 0 | 0-0 | −7 | −6.0 | |||||||
| 36 | 18 | 7-17 | 0-7 | 0 | 4-4 | 0 | −11 | −3.2 | ||||||
| 28 | 24, Season high (his best before, 23) | 10-14 | 1-3 | 3-3 | 0 | −4 | +8.6 | |||||||
| 24 | 9 | 3-13 | 0-3 | 3-4 | −20 | −2.2 | ||||||||
| 8 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | −1.9 | |
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 38 | 9 | 4-10 | 1-3 | 0 | 0-0 | −10 | +0.3 | |||||||
| 31 | 15 | 5-16 | 2-6 | 3-4 | 0 | −4 | −5.6 | |||||||
| 29 | 16 | 6-12 | 2-6 | 2-2 | +6 | +6.5 | ||||||||
| Team | 105 | 41-10439.4% | 8-3721.6% | 51 | 23 | 12 | 14 | 15-1788.2% | 16 | 13 | 8 | |||
Bench 40 points on 15 for 38 shooting
Did not play: Ivica Zubac, Bones Hyland and Norman Powell (coach’s decision).
Rockets116Clippers105ClickTap 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.
Amen Thompson had 18 points (16 in the paint), 11 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists, his first career triple-double, and the Houston Rockets beat the LA Clippers 116-105.
Nate Williams’ driving layup put the Rockets ahead for good with 17 seconds left in the third quarter.
The Clippers got within 89-88 on Brandon Boston’s 3-pointer with 9:19 to play, but Williams answered with a corner 3-pointer, and the Clippers got no closer than 105-102.
Late in the fourth quarter, Boston had 2 of his 4 steals in 16 seconds, the first leading to his own driving dunk and the second to his own driving dunk.
Cam Whitmore scored 21 points (14 in the paint). All 13 of Boban Marjanovic’s points came in the fourth quarter.
For the Clippers, Terance Mann scored a season-high 24 points on 10 for 14 shooting, and Amir Coffey went 0 for 7 from 3. Daniel Theis had 16 points and 11 rebounds off the bench.
The Rockets shot 48.5% from the field and 28.9% from 3 to the Clippers’ 39.4% and 21.6%. The Clippers gave up 17 offensive rebounds, about 4 more than usual for the shots the Rockets missed. The Clippers were outscored 24-13 in 7 minutes with Plumlee, Coffey, Mann, Moon and Brown on the floor together.
Houston RocketsLA ClippersPS, 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. 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 102 shots: 3.0 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 32-38 | 84.2% | 66% |
| In the paint | 5-15 | 33.3% | 44% |
| Mid-range | 2-12 | 16.7% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 2-5 | 40.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 9-33 | 27.3% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kobe Brown | 17 | 3 | 1-4 | −3 |
| Amir Coffey | 15 | 8 | 3-3 | +3 |
| Brandon Boston | 14 | 2 | 1-2 | −3 |
| Terance Mann | 10 | 4 | 2-3 | +1 |
| Everyone else | 20 | 4 | 2-5 | −3 |
The tracking credits him with 21 points on 76 possessions. He usually scores about 26 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xavier Moon | 15 | 2 | 1-1 | −1 |
| Kobe Brown | 14 | 0 | 0-0 | −3 |
| Brandon Boston | 14 | 2 | 1-2 | −1 |
| Terance Mann | 13 | 5 | 2-2 | +2 |
| Everyone else | 30 | 15 | 7-7 | +8 |
The tracking credits him with 24 points on 85 possessions. He usually scores about 19 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kobe Brown | 17 | 0 | 0-4 | −4 |
| Amir Coffey | 15 | 2 | 1-4 | −1 |
| Terance Mann | 12 | 3 | 1-5 | 0 |
| Xavier Moon | 8 | 6 | 2-4 | +4 |
| Everyone else | 17 | 4 | 2-4 | 0 |
The tracking credits him with 15 points on 69 possessions. He usually scores about 15 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.
LAC win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
HOU
50/50
LAC
Highest Leverage Moments
Smith Jr. 28' 3PT Jump Shot (15 PTS) (Thompson 10 AST)
Q4 2:55
15.7%
29→14
Boston Jr. 24' 3PT Jump Shot (13 PTS) (Plumlee 4 AST)
Q4 4:31
13.2%
11→24
Holiday 26' 3PT Jump Shot (3 PTS) (Whitmore 3 AST)
Q3 1:20
13.1%
60→47
Williams 3' Running Layup (8 PTS) (Hinton 3 AST)
Q3 0:18
11.8%
55→43
Williams 3PT Jump Shot (11 PTS) (Hinton 4 AST)
Q4 8:36
10.9%
46→35
