FloaterDaily Brief
Tuesday, February 4, 2003Regular season · 8 games
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8 games, 1 went to overtime. Biggest comeback: POR trailed ORL by 6 after the first quarter and won 96–89.

Final
LAL97
IND94
Q1 LAL -2; Q2 LAL -2; Q3 LAL +4; Q4 LAL +3
Final
POR96
ORL89
Q1 POR -6; Q2 POR +4; Q3 POR +2; Q4 POR +7
Final
CLE84
WAS93
Q1 WAS +2; Q2 WAS +7; Q3 WAS +4; Q4 WAS +9
Final
LAC92
NYK105
Q1 NYK +8; Q2 NYK +8; Q3 NYK +13; Q4 NYK +13
Final
TOR98
MIL95
Q1 TOR +7; Q2 TOR +10; Q3 TOR -2; Q4 TOR +3
Final
HOU89
MIN103
Q1 MIN +4; Q2 MIN 0; Q3 MIN +7; Q4 MIN +14
Final
SAC110
DAL109
Q1 SAC +13; Q2 SAC +6; Q3 SAC +3; Q4 SAC +1
Final · OT
CHI100
DEN102
Q1 DEN -2; Q2 DEN +8; Q3 DEN +5; Q4 DEN 0; OT1 DEN +2
Bars under each score: who led after each quarter, from the winner's side. winner ahead behind behind in a 10+ point comeback tied
On this day · 2001–02Feb 4, 2002: 4 games. Top scorer: Allen Iverson (PHI vs TOR), 36 points.
The lead · POR @ ORL

Portland makes it three straight

Portland beat Orlando 96–89 and moved to 31–16. Scottie Pippen led Portland with 25 points, 17 rebounds and 7 assists.

Game flow · POR margin at each break
Quarter-end scores only (4 points), so swings inside a period don't show.
-15-10-50+5+10+15TipEnd Q1HalfEnd Q3Final0-6+4+2+7POR AHEAD ↑ORL AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
POR1432173396
ORL2022192889
Who led
Scottie PippenPoints, last 10 games: 8, 14, 15, 7, 19, 13, 6, 6, 11, 25POR25 PTS · 17 REB · 7 AST
Rasheed WallacePoints, last 10 games: 10, 18, 10, 12, 14, 11, 38, 28, 29, 15POR15 PTS · 10 REB · 6 AST
Tracy McGradyPoints, last 10 games: 20, 31, 35, 35, 31, 33, 31, 35, 38, 24ORL24 PTS · 9 REB · 3 AST
Mike MillerPoints, last 10 games: 27, 18, 14, 17, 19, 11, 21, 15, 10, 20ORL20 PTS · 7 REB · 3 AST
Second story · the whole slate

Four games go down to the wire

Four of 8 games were decided by four points or fewer. Widest margin: Minnesota by 14.

SAC over DAL1DEN over CHI2LAL over IND3TOR over MIL3POR over ORL7WAS over CLE9NYK over LAC13MIN over HOU14Final margin, points. Pink = decided by 4 or fewer.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+9.2points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
18.8Season avg28.0Last 5

28.0 points a game over his last five games, against 18.8 in 39 earlier games. Today: 24 points in 44 minutes.

Losing minutes
−11.1minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
22.1Season avg11.0Last 3

11.0 minutes a game over his last three games, against 22.1 in 46 earlier games. Today: 2 points in 17 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+18.5minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
19.5Season avg38.0Today

38 minutes today, against 19.5 a game in 39 earlier games. Line: 17 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists.

Top performances

Latrell Sprewell leads the day with 38

Sparkline: points in his last 10 games, tonight in pink. Black tag: most points in a game this season to date, or in his career when his whole career is in our box scores (after 5+ games). Plus/minus: points tonight against his average before tonight.
Latrell SprewellPoints, last 10 games: 7, 24, 17, 21, 28, 21, 28, 13, 9, 38NYK vs LAC · W
17.6 PPG season to date · +20.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Season high38 PTS · 3 REB · 3 AST
Kobe BryantPoints, last 10 games: 36, 36, 22, 26, 23, 11, 40, 38, 42, 35LAL @ IND · W
28.2 PPG season to date · +7.0 vs his regular-season average before tonight
35 PTS · 7 REB · 2 AST
Steve FrancisPoints, last 10 games: 44, 4, 26, 16, 26, 22, 10, 27, 21, 31HOU @ MIN · L
22.9 PPG season to date · +8.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
31 PTS · 2 REB · 6 AST
Juwan HowardPoints, last 10 games: 12, 25, 25, 28, 15, 1, 17, 14, 26, 30DEN vs CHI · W
17.4 PPG season to date · +12.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Ties season high30 PTS · 9 REB · 8 AST
Dirk NowitzkiPoints, last 10 games: 15, 26, 30, 30, 13, 34, 32, 20, 25, 28DAL vs SAC · L
23.0 PPG season to date · +5.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
28 PTS · 16 REB · 5 AST
Michael FinleyPoints, last 10 games: 16, 19, 19, 20, 27, 29, 17, 22, 17, 28DAL vs SAC · L
20.0 PPG season to date · +8.2 vs his regular-season average before tonight
28 PTS · 3 REB · 0 AST
Hot and cold

Last 10 games against the season so far

Points per game in each player's last 10 games minus his season average through tonight. Regular season, players with 20+ games and 20+ minutes a game.
Hot
Joe JohnsonPHX+5.8 13.9 last 10 · 8.1 season
Stephon MarburyPHX+5.8 28.3 last 10 · 22.5 season
Peja StojakovicSAC+4.9 23.8 last 10 · 18.9 season
David WesleyNOH+4.7 21.4 last 10 · 16.7 season
Howard EisleyNYK+4.2 12.9 last 10 · 8.7 season
Cold
Jay WilliamsCHI−4.9 4.3 last 10 · 9.2 season
Ricky DavisCLE−4.8 16.8 last 10 · 21.6 season
Shammond WilliamsBOS−4.5 3.0 last 10 · 7.5 season
Doug ChristieSAC−4.3 5.8 last 10 · 10.1 season
Brent BarrySEA−4.1 5.8 last 10 · 9.9 season