FloaterDaily Brief
Saturday, January 10, 2015Regular season · 9 games
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9 games, none went to overtime. Biggest comeback: TOR trailed BOS by 7 after the first quarter and won 109–96.

Final
CHA110
NYK82
Q1 CHA +3; Q2 CHA +31; Q3 CHA +45; Q4 CHA +28
Final
DAL100
LAC120
Q1 LAC +6; Q2 LAC +8; Q3 LAC +16; Q4 LAC +20
Final
BKN93
DET98
Q1 DET +1; Q2 DET 0; Q3 DET +5; Q4 DET +5
Final
IND92
PHI93
Q1 PHI -2; Q2 PHI -6; Q3 PHI +2; Q4 PHI +1
Final
BOS96
TOR109
Q1 TOR -7; Q2 TOR +4; Q3 TOR +17; Q4 TOR +13
Final
MIL87
CHI95
Q1 CHI +10; Q2 CHI +9; Q3 CHI +6; Q4 CHI +8
Final
UTA82
HOU97
Q1 HOU 0; Q2 HOU +9; Q3 HOU +21; Q4 HOU +15
Final
SAS108
MIN93
Q1 SAS +9; Q2 SAS +15; Q3 SAS +20; Q4 SAS +15
Final
ORL92
POR103
Q1 POR +13; Q2 POR +5; Q3 POR +2; Q4 POR +11
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 · 2013–14Jan 10, 2014: 12 games. Top scorer: LeBron James (MIA @ BKN), 36 points.
The lead · BOS @ TOR

Toronto gets past Boston

109–96, with Toronto ahead 47–43 at halftime. Kyle Lowry led Toronto with 19 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists.

Game flow · TOR 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 Q3Final0-7+4+17+13TOR AHEAD ↑BOS AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
BOS2617223196
TOR19283527109
Who led
Kyle LowryPoints, last 10 games: 15, 22, 34, 25, 30, 25, 22, 19, 24, 19TOR19 PTS · 5 REB · 7 AST
Lou WilliamsPoints, last 10 games: 15, 22, 12, 9, 31, 7, 20, 17, 15, 19TOR19 PTS · 2 REB · 3 AST
Kelly OlynykPoints, last 10 games: 14, 11, 15, 15, 2, 0, 5, 6, 13, 23BOS23 PTS · 5 REB · 2 AST
Avery BradleyPoints, last 10 games: 20, 17, 2, 9, 22, 17, 4, 21, 23, 17BOS17 PTS · 1 REB · 2 AST
Second story · the whole slate

Charlotte posts the night's biggest win

Charlotte beat New York by 28, the widest margin of 9 games.

PHI over IND1DET over BKN5CHI over MIL8POR over ORL11TOR over BOS13HOU over UTA15SAS over MIN15LAC over DAL20CHA over NYK28Final margin, points. Pink = the widest win.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+11.5points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
18.7Season avg30.2Last 5

30.2 points a game over his last five games, against 18.7 in 38 earlier games. Today: 28 points in 28 minutes.

Losing minutes
−9.8minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
22.2Season avg12.4Last 3

12.4 minutes a game over his last three games, against 22.2 in 28 earlier games. Today: 3 points in 14 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+26.3minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
9.5Season avg35.8Today

36 minutes today, against 9.5 a game in 23 earlier games. Line: 22 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assists.

Top performances

Pau Gasol leads the day with 46

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.
Pau GasolPoints, last 10 games: 23, 8, 20, 10, 17, 29, 27, 13, 12, 46CHI vs MIL · W
18.7 PPG season to date · +28.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Most like it since 1995–96: LaMarcus Aldridge POR, Apr 20, 2014: 46 PTS · 18 REB · 2 AST
Career high46 PTS · 18 REB · 3 AST
Nikola VucevicPoints, last 10 games: 18, 12, 22, 26, 10, 10, 20, 20, 14, 34ORL @ POR · L
18.4 PPG season to date · +16.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Career high34 PTS · 16 REB · 2 AST
James HardenPoints, last 10 games: 32, 28, 33, 36, 11, 28, 20, 21, 25, 30HOU vs UTA · W
26.8 PPG season to date · +3.2 vs his regular-season average before tonight
30 PTS · 3 REB · 5 AST
David WestPoints, last 10 games: 6, 17, 10, 10, 6, 11, 10, 16, 11, 28IND @ PHI · L
12.7 PPG season to date · +16.0 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Season high28 PTS · 9 REB · 2 AST
Kemba WalkerPoints, last 10 games: 6, 42, 28, 12, 10, 30, 33, 31, 29, 28CHA @ NYK · W
18.9 PPG season to date · +9.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
28 PTS · 7 REB · 1 AST
LaMarcus AldridgePoints, last 10 games: 23, 23, 32, 27, 25, 23, 30, 21, 24, 25POR vs ORL · W
23.1 PPG season to date · +1.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
25 PTS · 6 REB · 3 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
Andrew WigginsMIN+6.5 21.0 last 10 · 14.5 season
Kemba WalkerCHA+6.0 24.9 last 10 · 18.9 season
Ty LawsonDEN+3.8 20.5 last 10 · 16.7 season
Ronnie PriceLAL+3.8 9.4 last 10 · 5.6 season
Gerald HendersonCHA+3.8 13.6 last 10 · 9.8 season
Cold
Deron WilliamsBKN−5.6 8.3 last 10 · 13.9 season
Kobe BryantLAL−5.5 17.5 last 10 · 23.0 season
Jeff GreenBOS−4.6 13.0 last 10 · 17.6 season
Mario ChalmersMIA−4.0 6.9 last 10 · 10.9 season
Bojan BogdanovicBKN−3.8 3.3 last 10 · 7.1 season