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Ace Bailey

F · 6′9″ · Current team: Utah Jazz

Regular season · Nov 11, 2025 · IND 128 @ UTA 152 · Final

Ace Bailey 20 points vs Pacers (Nov 11, 2025)

ANSWER

20 PTS · 7-of-13 FG · 4-of-8 3P · 2-of-2 FT · 25:36 MIN

Usual before this game: 6.3 PTS · 6.8 FGA · 19.3 MIN, from 10 regular-season games

Game Score 14.6 against a usual 3.9 (+10.7)

SURPRISE SCORE
95Unusual
above usual

No more than 5 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far above their usual.

For a player who plays every game, a game this far above the usual comes about 2 to 4 times a season.

How the score works

Why did Ace Bailey score 20 points?

Ace Bailey scored 20 points against the Pacers on Nov 11, 2025 in 25:36: 7-of-13 from the field (53.8%), 4-of-8 from three (50.0%), 2-of-2 on free throws. Before this game, Bailey averaged 6.3 points on 6.8 shots in 19.3 minutes across 10 regular-season games. Shot attempts: 13, against a usual 6.8. Bailey shot 53.8% from the field, against a usual 35.3%. Points by shot type, against the usual: threes 12 (1.2), two-pointers 6 (4.0). Playing time was 25:36, against a usual 19.3 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 20.5, against a usual 7.3. The Jazz won 152-128 at home against the Pacers, a 24-point win. The box score records what changed, not why: it holds no injury, matchup or coaching information.

Generated from the box score and this season's game log. How the score works

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What changed

Bailey in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (10 games)Change
Minutes25:3619.3+6.3
Points206.3+13.7
Shots (FGA) · FG%13 · 53.8%6.8 · 35.3%+6.2 · +18.5
3PA · 3P%8 · 50.0%2.2 · 18.2%+5.8 · +31.8
FTA · FT%2-of-21.2 · 91.7%+0.8
Rebounds43.7+0.3
Assists11.6-0.6
Turnovers11.4-0.4
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 10 games23.018.5+4.5
Game Score per 36 minutes20.57.3+13.2
02

Points by shot type

Twos, threes and free throws: the changes add up to the points change

Points by shot type against the usual line
Shot typeThis gameUsual (10 games)Change
Threes12 (4-of-8)1.2 (0.4-of-2.2)+10.8
Twos6 (3-of-5)4.0 (2.0-of-4.6)+2.0
Free throws2 (2-of-2)1.1 (1.1-of-1.2)+0.9
Total206.3+13.7
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

14.6 against a usual 3.9 (+10.7)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+11.3
Rebounds+0.5
Assists-0.4
Steals and blocks-0.7
Turnovers and fouls0.0
Total+10.7
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: 0.5, -2.2, 1.5, 7.3, 4.5, 1.9, -0.2, 5.7, 10.4, 9.8, 14.6

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Jazz won 152-128 at home against the Pacers, a 24-point win.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 10, 2025, 1 day earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Pacers this season.
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What this page cannot tell you

The same on every performance page

Limits

Box scores record what happened, not why: no injuries or health, defensive assignments, matchups, coaching decisions or play-by-play.

METHOD

Game Score against the player's own usual line. How rare a gap is comes from NBA regular-season games of 2023-24 and 2024-25, checked on 2025-26.