Utah led San Antonio by ten after the opening quarter, yet the Spurs won 117–111 in overtime in our provisional result. San Antonio made up most of the gap in the third, and neither side pulled away in the fourth. That leaves a better question than who started hot: which possessions changed the balance before overtime? If you watched, did the Spurs find cleaner shots, or did Utah have trouble ending defensive trips?
The quarter record has Utah ahead 32–22 after one, San Antonio scoring 34 in the third, and the teams matching each other at 20 in the fourth. The extra period went 12–6 to the Spurs. Those scores show when the game turned; they do not tell us what caused it.
