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Jericho Sims

C · 6′10″ · Current team: Milwaukee Bucks

Regular season · Dec 3, 2025 · DET 109 @ MIL 113 · Final

Jericho Sims: season-high 15 points vs Pistons (Dec 3, 2025)

ANSWER

15 PTS · 7-of-7 FG · 1-of-1 FT · 30:06 MIN

Usual before this game: 2.1 PTS · 1.2 FGA · 12.1 MIN, from this season's 15 games plus last season's average, counted as 2.5 games

Best Game Score of 16 games this season: 17.2 against a usual 2.6 (+14.6)

Season-high 15 points (previous high 6, set on Nov 22, 2025)

SURPRISE SCORE
99Very rare
above usual

No more than 1 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 less than once a season.

How the score works

Why did Jericho Sims score 15 points?

In 30:06 against the Pistons on Dec 3, 2025, Jericho Sims scored 15 points: 7-of-7 from the field, 1-of-1 on free throws. Before this game, the usual line was 2.1 points on 1.2 shots in 12.1 minutes: this season's 15 games plus last season's average, counted as 2.5 games. The 15 points were a season high, above the previous 6. By Game Score it was the best of 16 games this season. Shot attempts: 7, against a usual 1.2. Points by shot type, against the usual: two-pointers 14 (1.8). Playing time was 30:06, against a usual 12.1 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 20.6, against a usual 7.7. Sims had 14 rebounds, against a usual 3.0. At home against the Pistons, the Bucks won 113-109. 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

Sims in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (blended)Change
Minutes30:0612.1+18.0
Points152.1+12.9
Shots (FGA) · FG%7-of-71.2 · 75.5%+5.8
FTA · FT%1-of-10.4 · 66.2%+0.6
Rebounds143.0+11.0
Assists10.7+0.3
Turnovers10.7+0.3
Game Score per 36 minutes20.67.7+12.9
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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 (blended)Change
Twos14 (7-of-7)1.8 (0.9-of-1.2)+12.2
Free throws1 (1-of-1)0.3 (0.3-of-0.4)+0.7
Total152.1+12.9
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Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

17.2 against a usual 2.6 (+14.6)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+11.4
Rebounds+4.4
Assists+0.2
Steals and blocks-0.4
Turnovers and fouls-1.0
Total+14.6
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Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 16 games, oldest first, this game last: 2, 2.4, 0.5, 0.3, -0.4, 3.9, 0.6, 3.4, 2.7, 4.2, 8, -1.6, 4, 3.5, 5.4, 17.2

Best Game Score of 16 games this season.

Previous best: 8.0, set on Nov 22, 2025.

1 earlier game not counted in the usual line or the rank: no minutes recorded.

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Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Bucks won 113-109 at home against the Pistons.
  • Previous appearance: Dec 1, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Pistons this season: 6 points (Nov 22, 2025).
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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.