FloaterDaily Brief
Tuesday, December 17, 2019Regular season · 6 games
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6 games, 1 went to overtime. Biggest comeback: IND trailed LAL by 4 after the first quarter and won 105–102.

Final
SAC102
CHA110
Q1 CHA +5; Q2 CHA +6; Q3 CHA +1; Q4 CHA +8
Final
LAL102
IND105
Q1 IND -4; Q2 IND -2; Q3 IND +2; Q4 IND +3
Final
ATL120
NYK143
Q1 NYK +14; Q2 NYK +24; Q3 NYK +25; Q4 NYK +23
Final · OT
BKN108
NOP101
Q1 BKN 0; Q2 BKN +7; Q3 BKN -3; Q4 BKN 0; OT1 BKN +7
Final
ORL102
UTA109
Q1 UTA +6; Q2 UTA +11; Q3 UTA +11; Q4 UTA +7
Final
PHX99
LAC120
Q1 LAC +8; Q2 LAC +10; Q3 LAC +21; Q4 LAC +21
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 · 2018–19Dec 17, 2018: 8 games. Top scorer: James Harden (HOU vs UTA), 47 points.
The lead · LAL @ IND

Indiana holds off Lakers, 105–102

Indiana led 78–76 after three and held on to win by three. Domantas Sabonis led Indiana with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists.

Game flow · IND margin at each break
Quarter-end scores only (4 points), so swings inside a period don't show.
-10-50+5+10TipEnd Q1HalfEnd Q3Final0-4-2+2+3IND AHEAD ↑LAL AHEAD ↓
By quarter
Q1Q2Q3Q4T
LAL28242426102
IND24262827105
Who led
Domantas SabonisPoints, last 10 games: 13, 18, 17, 18, 19, 18, 15, 12, 12, 26IND26 PTS · 10 REB · 4 AST
Myles TurnerPoints, last 10 games: 3, 17, 12, 4, 7, 5, 11, 11, 14, 16IND16 PTS · 7 REB · 0 AST
LeBron JamesPoints, last 10 games: 23, 25, 25, 20, 31, 32, 25, 28, 32, 20LAL20 PTS · 9 REB · 9 AST
Dwight HowardPoints, last 10 games: 8, 4, 13, 7, 5, 8, 2, 4, 2, 20LAL20 PTS · 6 REB · 0 AST
Second story · BKN @ NOP

Brooklyn pulls away in overtime to beat New Orleans

Level at 93 after 48 minutes, Brooklyn won overtime 15–8. Final: 108–101. Spencer Dinwiddie led Brooklyn with 31 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists.

Top-scorer duel · BKN vs NOP
Spencer Dinwiddie · BKNBrandon Ingram · NOPPTS3122REB211AST71Top scorer on each side. Bars scale within each stat. Pink = the winning side.
Fantasy angleRecent form and minutes against each player's season average from games before today.
Heating up
+6.3points, last 5 vs season avg
Points per game
8.3Season avg14.6Last 5

14.6 points a game over his last five games, against 8.3 in 26 earlier games. Today: 16 points in 37 minutes.

Losing minutes
−13.2minutes, last 3 vs season avg
Minutes per game
24.5Season avg11.3Last 3

11.3 minutes a game over his last three games, against 24.5 in 25 earlier games. Today: 0 points in 12 minutes.

Stepped-up role
+14.0minutes, today vs season avg
Minutes per game
10.0Season avg24Today

24 minutes today, against 10.0 a game in 18 earlier games. Line: 10 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists.

Top performances

Trae Young leads the day with 42

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.
Trae YoungPoints, last 10 games: 49, 37, 24, 39, 30, 21, 15, 23, 30, 42ATL @ NYK · L
28.3 PPG season to date · +14.2 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Most like it since 1995–96: Ricky Davis CLE, Dec 13, 2002: 42 PTS · 4 REB · 8 AST
42 PTS · 4 REB · 8 AST
Spencer DinwiddiePoints, last 10 games: 16, 32, 29, 24, 13, 24, 24, 24, 24, 31BKN @ NOP · W
21.4 PPG season to date · +10.0 vs his regular-season average before tonight
31 PTS · 2 REB · 7 AST
Bojan BogdanovicPoints, last 10 games: 30, 33, 11, 9, 23, 19, 13, 14, 32, 30UTA vs ORL · W
21.1 PPG season to date · +9.2 vs his regular-season average before tonight
30 PTS · 5 REB · 5 AST
Donovan MitchellPoints, last 10 games: 26, 20, 16, 18, 29, 22, 26, 30, 28, 30UTA vs ORL · W
25.2 PPG season to date · +5.0 vs his regular-season average before tonight
30 PTS · 3 REB · 4 AST
RJ BarrettPoints, last 10 games: 18, 16, 2, 9, 12, 5, 22, 8, 7, 27NYK vs ATL · W
14.2 PPG season to date · +13.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
Career high27 PTS · 6 REB · 1 AST
Domantas SabonisPoints, last 10 games: 13, 18, 17, 18, 19, 18, 15, 12, 12, 26IND vs LAL · W
18.0 PPG season to date · +8.3 vs his regular-season average before tonight
26 PTS · 10 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
Ben McLemoreHOU+5.7 16.3 last 10 · 10.6 season
Norman PowellTOR+4.4 19.0 last 10 · 14.6 season
Anthony DavisLAL+3.6 31.0 last 10 · 27.4 season
Davis BertansWAS+3.6 19.0 last 10 · 15.4 season
Tobias HarrisPHI+3.5 23.2 last 10 · 19.7 season
Cold
Lou WilliamsLAC−4.3 15.6 last 10 · 19.9 season
Eric BledsoeMIL−4.0 11.0 last 10 · 15.0 season
Kevin LoveCLE−3.7 12.2 last 10 · 15.9 season
Jabari ParkerATL−3.7 12.1 last 10 · 15.8 season
Coby WhiteCHI−3.4 7.8 last 10 · 11.2 season