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Jock Landale

C · 6′11″ · Current team: Atlanta Hawks

Regular season · Nov 24, 2025 · DEN 125 @ MEM 115 · Final

Jock Landale 26 points vs Nuggets (Nov 24, 2025): 2nd-best of 18 games

ANSWER

26 PTS · 10-of-18 FG · 3-of-6 3P · 3-of-3 FT · 30:54 MIN

Usual before this game: 10.4 PTS · 7.5 FGA · 22.3 MIN, from 17 regular-season games

2nd-best Game Score of the 18 games the source holds this season: 20.0 against a usual 8.9 (+11.1)

Season-high 26 points among the games the source holds (previous high 21, set on Nov 20, 2025)

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 Jock Landale score 26 points?

In 30:54 against the Nuggets on Nov 24, 2025, Jock Landale scored 26 points: 10-of-18 from the field (55.6%), 3-of-6 from three (50.0%), 3-of-3 on free throws. Coming in, Landale had averaged 10.4 points on 7.5 shots in 22.3 minutes, from 17 regular-season games. No earlier game the source holds this season reached 26 points. This game had the 2nd-best Game Score of the 18 games the source holds this season. Shot attempts: 18, against a usual 7.5. Landale shot 55.6% from the field, against a usual 54.3%. Points by shot type, against the usual: two-pointers 14 (6.0), threes 9 (3.2), free throws 3 (1.2). Playing time was 30:54, against a usual 22.3 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 23.3, against a usual 14.3. At home against the Nuggets, the Grizzlies lost 125-115. 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

01

What changed

Landale in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (17 games)Change
Minutes30:5422.3+8.6
Points2610.4+15.6
Shots (FGA) · FG%18 · 55.6%7.5 · 54.3%+10.5 · +1.3
3PA · 3P%6 · 50.0%2.4 · 43.9%+3.6 · +6.1
FTA · FT%3-of-31.8 · 66.7%+1.2
Rebounds105.3+4.7
Assists21.6+0.4
Turnovers11.1-0.1
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 17 games28.517.3+11.2
Game Score per 36 minutes23.314.3+9.0
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 (17 games)Change
Threes9 (3-of-6)3.2 (1.1-of-2.4)+5.8
Twos14 (7-of-12)6.0 (3.0-of-5.1)+8.0
Free throws3 (3-of-3)1.2 (1.2-of-1.8)+1.8
Total2610.4+15.6
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

20.0 against a usual 8.9 (+11.1)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+10.9
Rebounds+0.9
Assists+0.3
Steals and blocks-0.9
Turnovers and fouls-0.1
Total+11.1
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 18 games, oldest first, this game last: 5.9, 2.9, 6.7, 18.1, 5, 14.8, 12.6, 12.5, 8.2, 9.4, 9.9, 6.3, 11, 0.6, 0.9, 20.5, 5.4, 20

2nd-best Game Score of the 18 games the source holds this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Grizzlies lost 125-115 at home against the Nuggets.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 22, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Nuggets this season.
  • The source holds fewer Grizzlies games than this season has, so season highs, lows and ranks count only the games it holds.
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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.