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According to the Denver Post, Porter’s brother, Coban Porter, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of vehicular homicide and reckless driving.Ĭoban Porter plays college basketball for the University of Denver. Michael Porter Jr., fourth on the Nuggets in scoring, was also out (personal reasons). The back-to-back MVP missed his second straight game with left hamstring tightness. The Nuggets, as obvious as it sounds, sure could’ve used Jokic. OKC did most of its work in the paint, where it outscored Denver 58-44. At least not from 3-point range (7-of-26). Surrounding SGA with shooters makes for lethal offense, but the Thunder didn’t shoot it well Sunday. SGA and Muscala have a 16.2 net rating when they share the floor. In two-man lineups, Gilgeous-Alexander has the highest net rating when he’s playing alongside Lindy Waters III (21.3 net rating). The Thunder led throughout the first half. They got off to a fast start against the Nuggets. Heading into Sunday, that group had outscored opponents by 18.3 points per 100 possessions in the 63 minutes they shared the floor. It’s the best five-man lineup combination the Thunder has by net rating (minimum 50 minutes). Mark Daigneault started Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Josh Giddey, Lu Dort, Jalen Williams and Mike Muscala. One of them happened to be the deciding bucket, made by a world-class scorer over an excellent defender. Gilgeous-Alexander scored just four points in the fourth quarter on 2-of-4 shooting. He had five rebounds and five assists.īut Gordon bottled up SGA in crunch time. Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points on 13-of-21 shooting. Once Gordon passed, Gilgeous-Alexander kissed an eight-foot jumper high off the glass. Gordon rushed to recover, but he overran Gilgeous-Alexander, who’s never in a rush. Gilgeous-Alexander snuck behind Gordon on a back cut, and Giddey fed SGA the ball. That’s what happened when the Thunder inbounded the ball with 9.2 seconds left, and only five seconds left on the shot clock in a tied game. And Josh Giddey will find Gilgeous-Alexander. If there’s a crack, Gilgeous-Alexander will find it. The 6-foot-8 Nuggets forward played admirable defense on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander down the stretch.īut SGA is slippery. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander puts Thunder aheadĬredit Aaron Gordon. More: Thunder rookie Jaylin Williams has support of OKC's Vietnamese community A game-winning stop has a way of covering up missed shots. Murray got the better of Dort at times, leading the Nikola Jokic-less Nuggets with 26 points on 11-of-23 shooting, but Dort got the better of Murray at the right time.

Murray had to settle for a 13-foot fadeaway, which fell short.ĭort was mobbed by his Thunder teammates. Murray dribbled in, pulled it back out, then drove again into Dort’s chest, which is basically a slab of concrete. The other eight players should’ve grabbed a bucket of popcorn and a courtside seat. It was going to be a one-on-one between Murray and Dort. Seven points on 3-of-13 shooting off.īut Dort can sleep well Sunday night, because his heroic defensive stand against Jamal Murray sealed a 101-99 Thunder win in Denver.ĭenver, down by two points, inbounded the ball to Murray with 9.2 seconds left. Illustration by Elias Stein.Watch Video: OKC Thunder: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander speed animation Marc Finn and Andres Waters contributed research. Statistical models by Nate Silver, Jay Boice, Neil Paine, Ryan Best and Holly Fuong. For historical team ratings, see the Complete History Of The NBA.ĭesign and development by Ryan Best and Jay Boice. Quality is determined by the harmonic mean of the teams’ Elo ratings importance measures how much the result will alter playoff projections the overall number is the average of the quality and importance values.ĭownload data. Elo ratings - which power the pure Elo forecast - are a measure of team strength based on head-to-head results, margin of victory and quality of opponent. A team’s current rating reflects any injuries and rest days in effect at the moment of the team's next game. A team’s full-strength rating assumes all of its key players are in the lineup. These are combined with up-to-date depth charts - tracking injuries, trades, changes in playing time and other player transactions - to generate talent estimates for each team. Our player-based RAPTOR forecast doesn’t account for wins and losses it is based entirely on our NBA player projections, which estimate each player’s future performance based on the trajectory of similar NBA players. How this works: These forecasts are based on 50,000 simulations of the rest of the season.