FloaterDaily Brief
Tuesday, January 9, 2018Regular season · 4 games
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4 games, none went to overtime. Biggest comeback: DAL trailed ORL by 5 at halftime and won 114–99.

Final
MIA90
TOR89
Q1 MIA +1; Q2 MIA +10; Q3 MIA +8; Q4 MIA +1
Final
POR117
OKC106
Q1 POR -2; Q2 POR +4; Q3 POR +12; Q4 POR +11
Final
ORL99
DAL114
Q1 DAL +6; Q2 DAL -5; Q3 DAL +7; Q4 DAL +15
Final
SAC86
LAL99
Q1 LAL +4; Q2 LAL +1; Q3 LAL +10; Q4 LAL +13
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 · 2016–17Jan 9, 2017: 3 games. Top scorer: Anthony Davis (NOP @ NYK), 40 points.
The lead · ORL @ DAL

Orlando's skid reaches five

Dallas won 114–99; the Magic fall to 12–29. Dennis Smith Jr. led Dallas with 20 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists.

Game flow · DAL 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+6-5+7+15DAL AHEAD ↑ORL AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
ORL1929272499
DAL25183932114
Who led
Dennis Smith Jr.Points, last 10 games: 6, 6, 8, 9, 21, 19, 14, 15, 11, 20DAL20 PTS · 6 REB · 3 AST
Dirk NowitzkiPoints, last 10 games: 20, 18, 18, 15, 13, 13, 12, 19, 5, 20DAL20 PTS · 3 REB · 1 AST
Aaron GordonPoints, last 10 games: 14, 24, 14, 13, 14, 39, 20, 16, 30, 19ORL19 PTS · 8 REB · 2 AST
D.J. AugustinPoints, last 10 games: 14, 2, 9, 9, 5, 5, 3, 3, 9, 18ORL18 PTS · 2 REB · 5 AST
Second story · POR @ OKC

Portland beats OKC, 117–106

Portland led 88–76 after three and won by 11. CJ McCollum led Portland with 27 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists.

The whole night · final margins
MIA over TOR1POR over OKC11LAL over SAC13DAL over ORL15Final margin, points. Pink = POR over OKC.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+8.1points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
25.3Season avg33.4Last 5

33.4 points a game over his last five games, against 25.3 in 38 earlier games. Today: 25 points in 35 minutes.

Losing minutes
−8.3minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
33.8Season avg25.5Last 3

25.5 minutes a game over his last three games, against 33.8 in 33 earlier games. Today: 16 points in 33 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+21.6minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
6.8Season avg28.4Today

28 minutes today, against 6.8 a game in 8 earlier games. Line: 8 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assists.

Top performances

CJ McCollum leads the day with 27

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.
CJ McCollumPoints, last 10 games: 13, 15, 17, 34, 18, 32, 19, 20, 25, 27POR @ OKC · W
21.5 PPG season to date · +5.7 vs his regular-season average before tonight
27 PTS · 3 REB · 7 AST
DeMar DeRozanPoints, last 10 games: 45, 29, 8, 15, 25, 52, 35, 20, 35, 25TOR vs MIA · L
25.3 PPG season to date · −0.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
25 PTS · 4 REB · 6 AST
Goran DragicPoints, last 10 games: 8, 10, 13, 14, 11, 25, 24, 19, 16, 24MIA @ TOR · W
16.9 PPG season to date · +7.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
24 PTS · 12 REB · 4 AST
Russell WestbrookPoints, last 10 games: 30, 27, 31, 30, 40, 38, 20, 29, 26, 22OKC vs POR · L
24.8 PPG season to date · −2.9 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 9 REB · 12 AST
Julius RandlePoints, last 10 games: 16, 16, 6, 18, 29, 15, 9, 15, 15, 22LAL vs SAC · W
13.4 PPG season to date · +8.8 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 14 REB · 6 AST
Paul GeorgePoints, last 10 games: 18, 17, 26, 24, 33, 25, 24, 31, 19, 22OKC vs POR · L
20.9 PPG season to date · +1.1 vs his regular-season average before tonight
22 PTS · 4 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
Lou WilliamsLAC+6.4 28.6 last 10 · 22.2 season
Reggie BullockDET+5.5 13.0 last 10 · 7.5 season
Shabazz NapierPOR+5.0 14.9 last 10 · 9.9 season
Russell WestbrookOKC+4.5 29.3 last 10 · 24.8 season
Dario SaricPHI+4.5 18.1 last 10 · 13.6 season
Cold
Reggie JacksonDET−4.2 10.4 last 10 · 14.6 season
Kristaps PorzingisNYK−4.1 19.6 last 10 · 23.7 season
Thaddeus YoungIND−4.0 7.7 last 10 · 11.7 season
Jonathon SimmonsORL−3.6 10.4 last 10 · 14.0 season
Robert CovingtonPHI−3.2 10.7 last 10 · 13.9 season