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Thursday, March 19, 2015Regular season · 4 games
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4 games, 1 went to overtime. Biggest comeback: UTA trailed LAL by 3 at halftime and won 80–73.

Final · OT
MIN95
NYK92
Q1 MIN +3; Q2 MIN +8; Q3 MIN 0; Q4 MIN 0; OT1 MIN +3
Final
DEN108
HOU118
Q1 HOU +6; Q2 HOU +16; Q3 HOU +17; Q4 HOU +10
Final
NOP72
PHX74
Q1 PHX +6; Q2 PHX +9; Q3 PHX +2; Q4 PHX +2
Final
UTA80
LAL73
Q1 UTA +2; Q2 UTA -3; Q3 UTA +3; Q4 UTA +7
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 · 2013–14Mar 19, 2014: 10 games. Top scorer: Kevin Love (MIN @ DAL), 35 points.
The lead · UTA @ LAL

Lakers' skid reaches four

Utah won 80–73; the Lakers fall to 17–50. Gordon Hayward led Utah with 22 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.

Game flow · UTA 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+2-3+3+7UTA AHEAD ↑LAL AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
UTA1815252280
LAL1620191873
Who led
Gordon HaywardPoints, last 10 games: 14, 21, 13, 25, 24, 29, 12, 18, 26, 22UTA22 PTS · 5 REB · 5 AST
Trey BurkePoints, last 10 games: 4, 16, 10, 12, 5, 0, 9, 8, 14, 17UTA17 PTS · 2 REB · 2 AST
Tarik BlackPoints, last 10 games: 0, 3, 0, 3, 6, 10, 10, 7, 4, 13LAL13 PTS · 10 REB · 2 AST
Wesley JohnsonPoints, last 10 games: 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 13, 4, 8, 16, 12LAL12 PTS · 2 REB · 0 AST
Second story · NOP @ PHX

Phoenix leads New Orleans wire to wire

Phoenix was ahead at every break and won 74–72. Best quarter: the second, 22–19. Markieff Morris led Phoenix with 17 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists.

The whole night · final margins
PHX over NOP2MIN over NYK3UTA over LAL7HOU over DEN10Final margin, points. Pink = PHX over NOP.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+9.3points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
7.7Season avg17.0Last 5

17.0 points a game over his last five games, against 7.7 in 55 earlier games. Today: 13 points in 17 minutes.

Losing minutes
−6.1minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
27.8Season avg21.7Last 3

21.7 minutes a game over his last three games, against 27.8 in 68 earlier games. Today: 12 points in 22 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+28.2minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
15.2Season avg43.4Today

43 minutes today, against 15.2 a game in 53 earlier games. Line: 10 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists.

Top performances

James Harden leads the day with 50

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.
James HardenPoints, last 10 games: 15, 33, 18, 38, 28, 18, 15, 34, 17, 50HOU vs DEN · W
27.1 PPG season to date · +23.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Most like it since 1995–96: Devin Booker PHX, Mar 27, 2019: 50 PTS · 10 REB · 4 AST
Career high50 PTS · 10 REB · 4 AST
Randy FoyePoints, last 10 games: 19, 9, 10, 3, 20, 7, 11, 20, 16, 23DEN @ HOU · L
7.6 PPG season to date · +15.8 vs his regular-season average before tonight
23 PTS · 2 REB · 6 AST
Wilson ChandlerPoints, last 10 games: 14, 12, 9, 16, 26, 17, 8, 10, 13, 23DEN @ HOU · L
13.8 PPG season to date · +9.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
23 PTS · 6 REB · 2 AST
Gordon HaywardPoints, last 10 games: 14, 21, 13, 25, 24, 29, 12, 18, 26, 22UTA @ LAL · W
19.7 PPG season to date · +2.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 5 REB · 5 AST
Kevin MartinPoints, last 10 games: 13, 9, 29, 10, 16, 14, 19, 23, 37, 22MIN @ NYK · W
20.3 PPG season to date · +1.7 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 2 REB · 0 AST
Langston GallowayPoints, last 10 games: 6, 11, 5, 14, 4, 12, 10, 7, 22, 21NYK vs MIN · L
11.4 PPG season to date · +9.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
21 PTS · 7 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
Russell WestbrookOKC+7.4 35.0 last 10 · 27.6 season
Danilo GallinariDEN+6.3 17.1 last 10 · 10.8 season
Khris MiddletonMIL+5.5 18.3 last 10 · 12.8 season
JJ RedickLAC+5.1 20.7 last 10 · 15.6 season
Tony ParkerSAS+5.1 20.1 last 10 · 15.0 season
Cold
Donald SloanIND−7.5 0.7 last 10 · 8.2 season
Kobe BryantLAL−7.2 15.1 last 10 · 22.3 season
Cory JosephSAS−4.6 2.9 last 10 · 7.5 season
Jared DudleyMIL−4.3 3.1 last 10 · 7.4 season
Ty LawsonDEN−4.3 11.5 last 10 · 15.8 season