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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Trail Blazers | 31 | 34 | 18 | 31 | 114 |
 Suns | 33 | 29 | 20 | 28 | 110 |
PORTeam statsPHX| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POR | 40-8845.5% | 17-4736.2% | 17-2373.9% | 42 | 27 | 15 |
| PHX | 39-7949.4% | 9-2536.0% | 23-3271.9% | 38 | 20 | 13 |
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Portland Trail Blazers114| 38 | 21 | 7-18 | 4-11 | 3-4 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −5.9 | ||||||
| 38 | 41 | 15-22 | 3-8 | 8-13 | 0 | 0 | +13 | +12.8 | ||||||
| 36 | 8 | 3-9 | 2-7 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −6 | −5.2 | ||||||
| 29 | 2 | 1-6 | 0-3 | 0 | 0-0 | +8 | +1.9 | |||||||
| 17 | 9 | 3-6 | 1-3 | 2-2 | +8 | +1.8 | ||||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 21 | 12 | 4-7 | 2-5 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +19 | −2.0 | |||||
| 19 | 16 | 5-12 | 4-8 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | −4 | +0.2 | ||||||
| 16 | 2 | 1-6 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | −14 | −1.9 | |||||||
| 13 | 3 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −13 | −1.9 | |||
| 12 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | +10 | +0.9 | ||||||
| Team | 114 | 40-8845.5% | 17-4736.2% | 42 | 27 | 15 | 27 | 17-2373.9% | 13 | 9 | 10 | |||
Bench 33 points on 11 for 27 shooting
Did not play: Sidy Cissoko, Vít Krejčí, Blake Wesley and Yang Hansen (coach’s decision).
Phoenix Suns110| 39 | 35 | 14-29 | 2-7 | 5-6 | 0 | 0 | −5 | −4.0 | ||||||
| 38 | 22 | 7-17 | 0-2 | 8-13 | 0 | 0 | −3 | −6.3 | ||||||
| 37 | 20 | 6-10 | 2-4 | 6-6 | 0 | +9 | +6.2 | |||||||
| 29 | 12 | 4-7 | 3-6 | 0 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | −2.2 | ||||||
| 22 | 4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −2 | +0.9 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 24 | 7 | 3-5 | 1-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −12 | +5.6 | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | +3 | −3.0 | ||||||
| 20 | 5 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | −1.4 | |||||||
| 9 | 2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −10 | +1.4 | ||||||
| Team | 110 | 39-7949.4% | 9-2536.0% | 38 | 20 | 13 | 24 | 23-3271.9% | 9 | 12 | 6 | |||
Bench 17 points on 6 for 13 shooting
Did not play: Rasheer Fleming, Haywood Highsmith, Khaman Maluach, Amir Coffey and Jamaree Bouyea (coach’s decision).
Trail Blazers114Suns110ClickTap 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.
Deni Avdija had 41 points (22 in the paint) and 12 assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Phoenix Suns 114-110 in the play-in tournament.
Avdija’s driving layup answered Jordan Goodwin’s reverse layup and put the Trail Blazers back ahead for good with 16 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
The Suns had the ball down 2 with 5.5 seconds left, but Jerami Grant stole the ball from Goodwin. A basket would have tied the game. They had the ball down 2 after a timeout, but Jalen Green missed a 3-pointer with 8.9 seconds left that would have put them ahead.
During clutch time, the Trail Blazers outscored the Suns 12-10. Grant scored 5 of the Trail Blazers’ 12 on 2 for 2 shooting. In the fourth quarter, Royce O'Neale had 3 of his 4 steals, and the Suns scored 6 points off them.
Jrue Holiday scored 21 points (12 on 4 3-pointers). Avdija and Holiday set each other up for 6 baskets and 15 points, 3 of them 3-pointers.
For the Suns, Green scored 35 points, and Devin Booker added 22 points. Dillon Brooks had 20 points and 4 steals. The Suns had 3 20-point scorers.
The Trail Blazers grabbed 13 offensive rebounds to the Suns’ 9. Brooks fouled out.
Portland Trail BlazersPhoenix SunsPS, 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 Trail Blazers’ chance bottomed out at 4.3% (4th quarter, 7:13 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 88 shots: 3.3 more than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 10-14 | 71.4% | 67% |
| In the paint | 10-22 | 45.5% | 45% |
| Mid-range | 3-5 | 60.0% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 8-17 | 47.1% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 9-30 | 30.0% | 35% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Goodwin | 27 | 6 | 2-3 | −3 |
| Dillon Brooks | 15 | 8 | 3-5 | +3 |
| Jalen Green | 6 | 2 | 1-1 | 0 |
| Devin Booker | 6 | 2 | 0-2 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 21 | 19 | 8-9 | +12 |
The tracking credits him with 37 points on 74 possessions. He usually scores about 26 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dillon Brooks | 22 | 6 | 2-5 | 0 |
| Jalen Green | 15 | 3 | 1-4 | −1 |
| Collin Gillespie | 11 | 0 | 0-4 | −3 |
| Royce O'Neale | 6 | 2 | 1-1 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 17 | 10 | 3-4 | +5 |
The tracking credits him with 21 points on 73 possessions. He usually scores about 20 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royce O'Neale | 12 | 0 | 0-2 | −4 |
| Jalen Green | 4 | 3 | 1-3 | +2 |
| Devin Booker | 4 | 0 | 0-1 | −1 |
| Oso Ighodaro | 4 | 5 | 1-1 | +4 |
| Everyone else | 9 | 6 | 2-2 | +3 |
The tracking credits him with 14 points on 32 possessions. He usually scores about 10 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.
PHX win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
POR
50/50
PHX
Highest Leverage Moments
Avdija 4' Driving Layup (40 PTS)
Q4 0:16
46.8%
71→24
Grant 3PT Jump Shot (14 PTS) (Avdija 12 AST)
Q4 1:54
35.4%
73→37
Goodwin 4' Driving Reverse Layup (12 PTS) (Booker 4 AST)
Q4 0:33
33.5%
37→71
Avdija 5' Driving Finger Roll Layup (38 PTS)
Q4 0:37
26.1%
64→37
Booker Free Throw 1 of 2 (21 PTS)
Q4 1:34
20.6%
37→58
