FloaterDaily Brief
Thursday, March 11, 2004Regular season · 2 games
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2 games, none went to overtime. Every winner was ahead or tied at every quarter break.

Final
NOH86
HOU97
Q1 HOU 0; Q2 HOU +15; Q3 HOU +17; Q4 HOU +11
Final
DAL102
SAC120
Q1 SAC +10; Q2 SAC +12; Q3 SAC +12; Q4 SAC +18
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 · 2002–03Mar 11, 2003: 9 games. Top scorer: Tracy McGrady (ORL @ WAS), 43 points.
The lead · NOH @ HOU

Cuttino Mobley hits six threes, Houston tops New Orleans

31 points for Cuttino Mobley. Final: 97–86.

Game flow · HOU margin at each break
Quarter-end scores only (4 points), so swings inside a period don't show.
-25-15-5+5+15+25TipEnd Q1HalfEnd Q3Final00+15+17+11HOU AHEAD ↑NOH AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
NOH2113223086
HOU2128242497
Who led
Cuttino MobleyPoints, last 10 games: 28, 11, 22, 16, 9, 5, 18, 13, 10, 31HOU31 PTS · 5 REB · 2 AST
Steve FrancisPoints, last 10 games: 16, 16, 8, 21, 15, 16, 25, 11, 24, 19HOU19 PTS · 6 REB · 5 AST
Baron DavisPoints, last 10 games: 34, 26, 18, 24, 33, 12, 26, 6, 33, 30NOH30 PTS · 5 REB · 4 AST
Darrell ArmstrongPoints, last 10 games: 5, 7, 7, 4, 7, 3, 0, 11, 0, 11NOH11 PTS · 1 REB · 3 AST
Second story · DAL @ SAC

Sacramento leads Dallas wire to wire

Sacramento was ahead at every break and won 120–102. Best quarter: the first, 37–27. Doug Christie led Sacramento with 22 points, 3 rebounds and 12 assists.

Top-scorer duel · SAC vs DAL
Doug Christie · SACDirk Nowitzki · DALPTS2221REB38AST124Top scorer on each side. Bars scale within each stat. Pink = the winning side.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+7.5points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
17.5Season avg25.0Last 5

25.0 points a game over his last five games, against 17.5 in 63 earlier games. Today: 17 points in 29 minutes.

Losing minutes
−13.3minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
36.0Season avg22.7Last 3

22.7 minutes a game over his last three games, against 36.0 in 63 earlier games. Today: 6 points in 28 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+12.3minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
12.7Season avg25Today

25 minutes today, against 12.7 a game in 53 earlier games. Line: 9 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists.

Top performances

Cuttino Mobley leads the day with 31

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.
Cuttino MobleyPoints, last 10 games: 28, 11, 22, 16, 9, 5, 18, 13, 10, 31HOU vs NOH · W
15.5 PPG season to date · +15.8 vs his regular-season average before tonight
31 PTS · 5 REB · 2 AST
Baron DavisPoints, last 10 games: 34, 26, 18, 24, 33, 12, 26, 6, 33, 30NOH @ HOU · L
23.0 PPG season to date · +7.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
30 PTS · 5 REB · 4 AST
Doug ChristiePoints, last 10 games: 9, 13, 17, 28, 10, 4, 17, 13, 23, 22SAC vs DAL · W
9.8 PPG season to date · +12.4 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 3 REB · 12 AST
Peja StojakovicPoints, last 10 games: 27, 37, 21, 32, 23, 27, 14, 28, 20, 22SAC vs DAL · W
25.3 PPG season to date · −3.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 5 REB · 1 AST
Brad MillerPoints, last 10 games: 18, 21, 18, 16, 23, 19, 8, 22, 7, 21SAC vs DAL · W
15.2 PPG season to date · +5.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
21 PTS · 16 REB · 3 AST
Dirk NowitzkiPoints, last 10 games: 25, 16, 23, 21, 19, 15, 21, 18, 26, 21DAL @ SAC · L
21.3 PPG season to date · −0.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
21 PTS · 8 REB · 4 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
Amar'e StoudemirePHX+7.5 26.5 last 10 · 19.0 season
Hedo TurkogluSAS+7.0 16.2 last 10 · 9.2 season
Gilbert ArenasWAS+6.3 26.3 last 10 · 20.0 season
Speedy ClaxtonGSW+5.8 16.3 last 10 · 10.5 season
Zydrunas IlgauskasCLE+5.8 21.1 last 10 · 15.3 season
Cold
Shareef Abdur-RahimPOR−8.1 10.2 last 10 · 18.3 season
Vin BakerBOS−6.0 5.3 last 10 · 11.3 season
David WesleyNOH−5.1 9.8 last 10 · 14.9 season
Darrell ArmstrongNOH−5.1 5.5 last 10 · 10.6 season
Devean GeorgeLAL−4.7 3.4 last 10 · 8.1 season