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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hornets | 33 | 26 | 34 | 30 | 123 |
 Mavericks | 20 | 38 | 35 | 28 | 121 |
CHATeam statsDAL| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHA | 43-9147.3% | 20-4148.8% | 17-1894.4% | 45 | 28 | 10 |
| DAL | 48-10346.6% | 11-3333.3% | 14-1687.5% | 50 | 26 | 8 |
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Charlotte Hornets123| 38 | 17 | 7-17 | 1-5 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | +11 | −0.2 | ||||||
| 36 | 34, Career high (his best before, 33) | 10-16 | 8-12, Career high (his best before, 7) | 0 | 0 | 6-6 | 0 | 0 | +7 | +14.0 | ||||
| 32 | 10 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −1.4 | ||||||
| 31 | 22 | 8-17 | 6-10 | 0-0 | 0 | +9 | +4.8 | |||||||
| 27 | 23 | 7-13 | 3-7 | 0 | 6-6 | 0 | +12 | +5.8 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 20 | 8 | 3-10 | 2-5 | 0 | 0-0 | −7 | −1.0 | |||||||
| 16 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | −5.9 | ||||
| 15 | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 3-4 | 0 | 0 | −0.2 | |||||
| 15 | 2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −8 | −3.0 | ||||||
| 10 | 2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −9 | −1.2 | |||||
| Team | 123 | 43-9147.3% | 20-4148.8% | 45 | 28 | 10 | 17 | 17-1894.4% | 8 | 4 | 9 | |||
Bench 17 points on 6 for 19 shooting
Did not play: Liam McNeeley, Tre Mann and Pat Connaughton (coach’s decision).
Dallas Mavericks121| 38 | 49, Career high (his best before, 42) | 20-29 | 3-5 | 6-6 | 0 | +2 | +16.7 | |||||||
| 35 | 14 | 6-19 | 1-5 | 1-1 | −5 | −4.0 | ||||||||
| 29 | 13 | 6-15 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −13 | −4.5 | ||||||
| 27 | 6 | 2-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 | −11 | −0.4 | ||||||||
| 25 | 5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-2 | 0 | −8 | −1.3 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 27 | 16 | 6-15 | 4-11 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | +3 | −0.9 | ||||||
| 21 | 15 | 6-10 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0 | 0 | +11 | +5.7 | ||||||
| 17 | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 3-4 | +11 | +0.2 | ||||||
| 9 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | −0.5 | ||||
| 6 | 0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | −1.2 | |||
| 5 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | +0.1 | ||||
| Team | 121 | 48-10346.6% | 11-3333.3% | 50 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 14-1687.5% | 13 | 7 | 8 | |||
Bench 34 points on 12 for 30 shooting
Did not play: Miles Kelly and D'Angelo Russell (coach’s decision).
Hornets123Mavericks121ClickTap 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.
Kon Knueppel made 2 free throws with 4.1 seconds left, and the Charlotte Hornets beat the Dallas Mavericks 123-121 for their fifth straight win.
Cooper Flagg’s pull-up 3-pointer had tied it at 121 with 33 seconds left.
The Mavericks had the ball in a tie game with 24 seconds left, but Knueppel stole the ball from Flagg, lifting the Hornets’ chance to win from 29% to 71%. A basket would have put the Mavericks ahead. They had the ball down 2 after a timeout, but Flagg missed a 20-foot pull-up jumper at the buzzer that would have tied it.
During clutch time, the Hornets outscored the Mavericks 16-13. Knueppel scored 6 of the Hornets’ 16 on 1 for 2 shooting and 4 for 4 at the line. Early in the fourth quarter, Brandon Williams had 2 steals, both leading to baskets that put the Mavericks ahead, and the Mavericks scored 5 points off them.
Knueppel scored a career-high 34 points on 10 for 16 shooting. Brandon Miller added 23 points (10 in the first quarter), and LaMelo Ball had 22 points (18 on 6 3-pointers) and 9 assists. The Hornets had 3 20-point scorers. Miles Bridges assisted on 6 of Knueppel’s 10 baskets, 5 of them 3-pointers.
For the Mavericks, Flagg had a career-high 49 points and 10 rebounds on 20 for 29 shooting, and Max Christie went 1 for 7 from 3. Williams had 15 points and 6 assists off the bench.
The Hornets made 20 3-pointers, 8 of them by Knueppel and 6 by Ball. The Mavericks outscored the Hornets 60-38 in the paint. The Mavericks’ starters were outscored 28-15 in 7 minutes together.
Charlotte HornetsDallas MavericksPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. Wins: how much his shots, free throws, turnovers and passes moved his team’s chance to win (1.00 is a whole win).
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.
106 points from the field on 91 shots: 6.4 more than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 15-25 | 60.0% | 67% |
| In the paint | 4-19 | 21.1% | 45% |
| Mid-range | 4-6 | 66.7% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 5-10 | 50.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 15-31 | 48.4% | 35% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Flagg | 19 | 10 | 3-5 | +5 |
| Max Christie | 15 | 7 | 2-3 | +3 |
| Klay Thompson | 12 | 2 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Caleb Martin | 9 | 6 | 2-2 | +3 |
| Everyone else | 17 | 9 | 3-5 | +4 |
The tracking credits him with 34 points on 72 possessions. He usually scores about 21 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P.J. Washington | 15 | 9 | 3-3 | +4 |
| Max Christie | 14 | 3 | 1-3 | −2 |
| Cooper Flagg | 8 | 2 | 1-4 | −1 |
| Klay Thompson | 7 | 7 | 2-2 | +5 |
| Everyone else | 11 | 2 | 0-1 | −2 |
The tracking credits him with 23 points on 56 possessions. He usually scores about 19 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caleb Martin | 20 | 2 | 1-3 | −5 |
| Cooper Flagg | 9 | 9 | 3-3 | +6 |
| P.J. Washington | 7 | 3 | 1-4 | +1 |
| Max Christie | 6 | 3 | 1-3 | +1 |
| Everyone else | 22 | 5 | 2-3 | −3 |
The tracking credits him with 22 points on 64 possessions. He usually scores about 22 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.
Score margin over time — positive = DAL leads, negative = CHA leads
DAL Largest Lead
4
Q4 9:54
CHA Largest Lead
15
Q1 0:14
Key Scoring Runs (8+)
DAL 8-0 run
Q1 0:03 – Q2 10:23
-15 → -7
CHA 8-0 run
Q3 8:45 – Q3 7:55
-3 → -11
DAL 9-0 run
Q3 0:59 – Q4 11:36
-6 → +3
