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Maxime Raynaud

C · 7′1″ · Current team: Sacramento Kings

Regular season · Dec 3, 2025 · SAC 95 @ HOU 121 · Final

Maxime Raynaud 25 points vs Rockets (Dec 3, 2025)

ANSWER

25 PTS · 10-of-15 FG · 2-of-2 3P · 3-of-3 FT · 32:18 MIN

Usual before this game: 6.2 PTS · 5.0 FGA · 14.5 MIN, from 13 regular-season games

Game Score 23.9 against a usual 4.5 (+19.4)

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 Maxime Raynaud score 25 points?

In 32:18 against the Rockets on Dec 3, 2025, Maxime Raynaud scored 25 points: 10-of-15 from the field (66.7%), 2-of-2 from three, 3-of-3 on free throws. Before this game, Raynaud averaged 6.2 points on 5.0 shots in 14.5 minutes across 13 regular-season games. Shot attempts: 15, against a usual 5.0. Raynaud shot 66.7% from the field, against a usual 47.7%. Points by shot type, against the usual: two-pointers 16 (4.5), threes 6 (0.5), free throws 3 (1.2). Raynaud played 32:18 against a usual 14.5 minutes; per 36 minutes the Game Score was 26.6, against a usual 11.2. At the Rockets, the Kings lost 121-95, a 26-point loss. 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

Raynaud in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (13 games)Change
Minutes32:1814.5+17.8
Points256.2+18.8
Shots (FGA) · FG%15 · 66.7%5.0 · 47.7%+10.0 · +19.0
3PA · 3P%2-of-20.7 · 22.2%+1.3
FTA · FT%3-of-31.5 · 80.0%+1.5
Rebounds63.5+2.5
Assists30.7+2.3
Turnovers10.6+0.4
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 13 games22.718.4+4.3
Game Score per 36 minutes26.611.2+15.4
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 (13 games)Change
Threes6 (2-of-2)0.5 (0.2-of-0.7)+5.5
Twos16 (8-of-13)4.5 (2.2-of-4.3)+11.5
Free throws3 (3-of-3)1.2 (1.2-of-1.5)+1.8
Total256.2+18.8
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

23.9 against a usual 4.5 (+19.4)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+15.0
Rebounds+1.2
Assists+1.6
Steals and blocks+1.1
Turnovers and fouls+0.5
Total+19.4
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: 0.5, -0.4, 5.9, 7.1, 4, 3.2, 5.1, 10.3, 5.1, -2.4, -0.2, 14.8, 5.9, 23.9

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Kings lost 121-95 at the Rockets, a 26-point loss.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 30, 2025, 3 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Rockets 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.