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Oso Ighodaro

F · 6′11″ · Current team: Phoenix Suns

Regular season · Nov 13, 2025 · IND 98 @ PHX 133 · Final

Oso Ighodaro 17 points vs Pacers (Nov 13, 2025)

ANSWER

17 PTS · 7-of-9 FG · 3-of-5 FT · 26:24 MIN

Usual before this game: 3.7 PTS · 3.3 FGA · 16.1 MIN, from this season's 12 games plus last season's average, counted as 4 games

Game Score 18.9 against a usual 2.5 (+16.4)

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 Oso Ighodaro score 17 points?

Oso Ighodaro scored 17 points against the Pacers on Nov 13, 2025 in 26:24: 7-of-9 from the field, 3-of-5 on free throws (60.0%). Before this game, the usual line was 3.7 points on 3.3 shots in 16.1 minutes: this season's 12 games plus last season's average, counted as 4 games. Shot attempts: 9, against a usual 3.3. By shot type: two-pointers 14 points (usual 3.3); free throws 3 points (usual 0.4). Ighodaro played 26:24 against a usual 16.1 minutes; per 36 minutes the Game Score was 25.8, against a usual 5.6. Ighodaro had 3 steals and 3 blocks, against a usual 0.3 and 0.5. The Suns won 133-98 at home against the Pacers, a 35-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

Ighodaro in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (blended)Change
Minutes26:2416.1+10.3
Points173.7+13.3
Shots (FGA) · FG%7-of-93.3 · 49.6%+5.7
FTA · FT%5 · 60.0%0.8 · 48.1%+4.2 · +11.9
Rebounds73.3+3.7
Assists01.4-1.4
Turnovers11.2-0.2
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 11 games20.613.9+6.7
Game Score per 36 minutes25.85.6+20.2
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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-9)3.3 (1.7-of-3.3)+10.7
Free throws3 (3-of-5)0.4 (0.4-of-0.8)+2.6
Total173.7+13.3
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Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

18.9 against a usual 2.5 (+16.4)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+10.9
Rebounds+1.3
Assists-0.9
Steals and blocks+4.4
Turnovers and fouls+0.7
Total+16.4
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: 4.8, 6, -2.5, 0.2, 1.1, 3.7, 1.1, 1, 0.7, 1, 4, 1.1, 18.9

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Suns won 133-98 at home against the Pacers, a 35-point win.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 12, 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.