FloaterDaily Brief
Saturday, April 10, 2010Regular season · 8 games
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8 games, none went to overtime. Biggest comeback: IND trailed NJN by 9 after the first quarter and won 115–102.

Final
DET95
CHA99
Q1 CHA -1; Q2 CHA +7; Q3 CHA +5; Q4 CHA +4
Final
NJN102
IND115
Q1 IND -9; Q2 IND -4; Q3 IND +9; Q4 IND +13
Final
ATL105
WAS95
Q1 ATL 0; Q2 ATL +2; Q3 ATL 0; Q4 ATL +10
Final
PHI120
MEM101
Q1 PHI -5; Q2 PHI -7; Q3 PHI +8; Q4 PHI +19
Final
BOS105
MIL90
Q1 BOS -3; Q2 BOS +1; Q3 BOS +3; Q4 BOS +15
Final
SAS104
DEN85
Q1 SAS +1; Q2 SAS +5; Q3 SAS +7; Q4 SAS +19
Final
DAL126
SAC108
Q1 DAL +11; Q2 DAL +12; Q3 DAL +21; Q4 DAL +18
Final
GSW104
LAC107
Q1 LAC +8; Q2 LAC +8; Q3 LAC +4; Q4 LAC +3
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 · 2008–09Apr 10, 2009: 13 games. Top scorer: Chris Paul (NOH @ DAL), 42 points.
The lead · NJN @ IND

Indiana rallies from 9 down to beat New Jersey

Trailing by 9 after one, Indiana outscored the Nets 90–68 the rest of the way. Final: 115–102. Troy Murphy led Indiana with 25 points, 9 rebounds and 0 assists.

Game flow · IND margin at each break
Quarter-end scores only (4 points), so swings inside a period don't show. Pink = the rally, from the biggest deficit to the final.
-20-100+10+20TipEnd Q1HalfEnd Q3Final0-9-4+9+13IND AHEAD ↑NJN AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
NJN34261923102
IND25313227115
Who led
Troy MurphyPoints, last 10 games: 10, 12, 17, 21, 19, 29, 17, 17, 14, 25IND25 PTS · 9 REB · 0 AST
Danny GrangerPoints, last 10 games: 32, 31, 44, 18, 33, 25, 18, 33, 36, 22IND22 PTS · 4 REB · 4 AST
Brook LopezPoints, last 10 games: 26, 37, 7, 22, 19, 12, 22, 5, 26, 20NJN20 PTS · 5 REB · 2 AST
Yi JianlianPoints, last 10 games: 5, 31, 7, 8, 11, 10, 3, 11, 15, 18NJN18 PTS · 7 REB · 2 AST
Second story · PHI @ MEM

Philadelphia beats Memphis, 120–101

Philadelphia led 86–78 after three and won by 19. Marreese Speights led Philadelphia with 22 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist.

The whole night · final margins
LAC over GSW3CHA over DET4ATL over WAS10IND over NJN13BOS over MIL15DAL over SAC18PHI over MEM19SAS over DEN19Final margin, points. Pink = PHI over MEM.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+13.2points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
8.4Season avg21.6Last 5

21.6 points a game over his last five games, against 8.4 in 71 earlier games. Today: 23 points in 40 minutes.

Losing minutes
−14.4minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
26.1Season avg11.7Last 3

11.7 minutes a game over his last three games, against 26.1 in 64 earlier games. Today: 2 points in 19 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+27.4minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
15.6Season avg43Today

43 minutes today, against 15.6 a game in 66 earlier games. Line: 10 points, 15 rebounds, 1 assists.

Top performances

Dirk Nowitzki leads the day with 39

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.
Dirk NowitzkiPoints, last 10 games: 18, 15, 13, 34, 28, 24, 30, 22, 40, 39DAL @ SAC · W
25.1 PPG season to date · +14.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
39 PTS · 7 REB · 2 AST
Carl LandryPoints, last 10 games: 23, 11, 30, 17, 17, 22, 14, 20, 14, 30SAC vs DAL · L
16.8 PPG season to date · +13.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
30 PTS · 6 REB · 0 AST
Stephen CurryPoints, last 10 games: 14, 30, 17, 18, 15, 15, 29, 27, 27, 29GSW @ LAC · L
17.1 PPG season to date · +12.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
29 PTS · 9 REB · 4 AST
Jamal CrawfordPoints, last 10 games: 11, 12, 17, 14, 17, 29, 18, 19, 25, 28ATL @ WAS · W
18.0 PPG season to date · +10.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
28 PTS · 1 REB · 1 AST
Tyreke EvansPoints, last 10 games: 10, 29, 25, 15, 17, 20, 6, 22, 28, 27SAC vs DAL · L
20.2 PPG season to date · +6.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
27 PTS · 8 REB · 6 AST
Chris KamanPoints, last 10 games: 22, 4, 9, 17, 22, 14, 22, 14, 23, 27LAC vs GSW · W
18.5 PPG season to date · +8.6 vs his regular-season average before tonight
27 PTS · 10 REB · 2 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
Andray BlatcheWAS+8.0 21.9 last 10 · 13.9 season
Manu GinobiliSAS+7.6 24.2 last 10 · 16.6 season
Shaun LivingstonWAS+7.1 13.6 last 10 · 6.5 season
Terrence WilliamsNJN+6.6 14.9 last 10 · 8.3 season
Marcus ThorntonNOH+5.6 19.9 last 10 · 14.3 season
Cold
Devin BrownCHI−6.5 1.5 last 10 · 8.0 season
Ronnie BrewerMEM−5.5 3.3 last 10 · 8.8 season
Nate RobinsonBOS−5.3 4.9 last 10 · 10.2 season
Tony ParkerSAS−4.9 11.1 last 10 · 16.0 season
Ty LawsonDEN−4.7 3.6 last 10 · 8.3 season