FloaterDaily Brief
Wednesday, December 30, 2015Regular season · 10 games
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10 games, 1 went to overtime. Biggest comeback: ORL trailed BKN by 7 at halftime and won 100–93.

Final
LAC122
CHA117
Q1 LAC +7; Q2 LAC +9; Q3 LAC +6; Q4 LAC +5
Final
BKN93
ORL100
Q1 ORL 0; Q2 ORL -7; Q3 ORL -5; Q4 ORL +7
Final
LAL112
BOS104
Q1 LAL -3; Q2 LAL +2; Q3 LAL +11; Q4 LAL +8
Final
WAS91
TOR94
Q1 TOR +1; Q2 TOR +11; Q3 TOR +12; Q4 TOR +3
Final · OT
IND100
CHI102
Q1 CHI 0; Q2 CHI +10; Q3 CHI +4; Q4 CHI 0; OT1 CHI +2
Final
UTA80
MIN94
Q1 MIN +6; Q2 MIN +7; Q3 MIN +10; Q4 MIN +14
Final
GSW91
DAL114
Q1 DAL +6; Q2 DAL +18; Q3 DAL +19; Q4 DAL +23
Final
PHX79
SAS112
Q1 SAS +20; Q2 SAS +28; Q3 SAS +28; Q4 SAS +33
Final
DEN103
POR110
Q1 POR -1; Q2 POR +7; Q3 POR +13; Q4 POR +7
Final
PHI110
SAC105
Q1 PHI -1; Q2 PHI 0; Q3 PHI +4; Q4 PHI +5
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 · 2014–15Dec 30, 2014: 10 games. Top scorer: Kyrie Irving (CLE @ ATL), 35 points.
The lead · BKN @ ORL

Orlando takes care of Brooklyn

A 7-point win, 100–93. Nikola Vucevic led Orlando with 20 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists.

Game flow · ORL 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 Q3Final00-7-5+7ORL AHEAD ↑BKN AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
BKN2626212093
ORL26192332100
Who led
Nikola VucevicPoints, last 10 games: 14, 18, 14, 25, 20, 26, 21, 22, 28, 20ORL20 PTS · 9 REB · 3 AST
Evan FournierPoints, last 10 games: 5, 3, 15, 2, 17, 16, 17, 12, 20, 17ORL17 PTS · 3 REB · 5 AST
Brook LopezPoints, last 10 games: 14, 11, 25, 18, 20, 21, 13, 19, 26, 24BKN24 PTS · 15 REB · 2 AST
Bojan BogdanovicPoints, last 10 games: 15, 10, 8, 5, 13, 12, 17, 14, 9, 20BKN20 PTS · 6 REB · 3 AST
Second story · LAL @ BOS

Lakers knock off Boston, 112–104

The Celtics came in at 18–13; the Lakers at 5–27. Jordan Clarkson led Lakers with 24 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists.

The whole night · final margins
CHI over IND2TOR over WAS3LAC over CHA5PHI over SAC5ORL over BKN7POR over DEN7LAL over BOS8MIN over UTA14DAL over GSW23SAS over PHX33Final margin, points. Pink = LAL over BOS.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+9.5points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
9.9Season avg19.4Last 5

19.4 points a game over his last five games, against 9.9 in 25 earlier games. Today: 23 points in 31 minutes.

Losing minutes
−13.5minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
23.2Season avg9.7Last 3

9.7 minutes a game over his last three games, against 23.2 in 33 earlier games. Today: 0 points in 15 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+25.3minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
15.6Season avg40.9Today

41 minutes today, against 15.6 a game in 21 earlier games. Line: 29 points, 1 rebounds, 5 assists.

Top performances

DeMar DeRozan leads the day with 34

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.
DeMar DeRozanPoints, last 10 games: 27, 25, 20, 31, 30, 28, 28, 22, 19, 34TOR vs WAS · W
22.9 PPG season to date · +11.4 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Ties season high34 PTS · 6 REB · 5 AST
Will BartonPoints, last 10 games: 23, 14, 16, 32, 25, 17, 16, 19, 29, 31DEN @ POR · L
16.7 PPG season to date · +14.8 vs his regular-season average before tonight
31 PTS · 5 REB · 4 AST
Kemba WalkerPoints, last 10 games: 33, 16, 12, 27, 18, 14, 10, 22, 38, 29CHA vs LAC · L
18.9 PPG season to date · +10.5 vs his regular-season average before tonight
29 PTS · 3 REB · 7 AST
CJ McCollumPoints, last 10 games: 26, 22, 16, 24, 27, 20, 19, 16, 35, 29POR vs DEN · W
20.7 PPG season to date · +8.6 vs his regular-season average before tonight
29 PTS · 3 REB · 4 AST
Aaron BrooksPoints, last 10 games: 17, 4, 7, 2, 11, 8, 6, 7, 17, 29CHI vs IND · W
9.3 PPG season to date · +20.6 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Season high29 PTS · 1 REB · 5 AST
Jimmy ButlerPoints, last 10 games: 15, 23, 24, 43, 12, 24, 23, 17, 5, 28CHI vs IND · W
21.0 PPG season to date · +7.2 vs his regular-season average before tonight
28 PTS · 4 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
Will BartonDEN+5.5 22.2 last 10 · 16.7 season
Klay ThompsonGSW+5.2 24.5 last 10 · 19.3 season
Draymond GreenGSW+4.0 18.8 last 10 · 14.8 season
Khris MiddletonMIL+4.0 19.8 last 10 · 15.8 season
Garrett TempleWAS+3.9 10.7 last 10 · 6.8 season
Cold
Paul GeorgeIND−7.6 16.5 last 10 · 24.1 season
Mo WilliamsCLE−4.7 6.7 last 10 · 11.4 season
Victor OladipoORL−4.3 8.0 last 10 · 12.3 season
Markieff MorrisPHX−3.6 6.9 last 10 · 10.5 season
Robert CovingtonPHI−3.3 8.2 last 10 · 11.5 season