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Pat Spencer

G · 6′2″ · Current team: Phoenix Suns

Regular season · Dec 22, 2025 · ORL 97 @ GSW 120 · Final

Pat Spencer 2 points on 0-of-5 vs Magic (Dec 22, 2025): lowest of 21 games

ANSWER

2 PTS · 0-of-5 FG · 0-of-2 3P · 2-of-2 FT · 12:00 MIN

Usual before this game: 7.2 PTS · 6.2 FGA · 15.7 MIN, from 20 regular-season games

Lowest Game Score of 21 games this season: -2.5 against a usual 6.5 (-9.0)

SURPRISE SCORE
96Unusual
below usual

No more than 4 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far below their usual.

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

How the score works

Why did Pat Spencer score 2 points?

In 12:00 against the Magic on Dec 22, 2025, Pat Spencer scored 2 points: 0-of-5 from the field, 0-of-2 from three, 2-of-2 on free throws. Coming in, Spencer had averaged 7.2 points on 6.2 shots in 15.7 minutes, from 20 regular-season games. This game had the lowest Game Score of 21 games this season. By shot type: two-pointers 0 points (usual 4.0); threes 0 points (usual 2.3); free throws 2 points (usual 0.9). Spencer played 12:00 against a usual 15.7 minutes. Spencer had 3 turnovers and 1 foul, against a usual 0.9 and 1.4. The Warriors won 120-97 at home against the Magic, a 23-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

Spencer in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (20 games)Change
Minutes12:0015.7-3.7
Points27.2-5.2
Shots (FGA) · FG%0-of-56.2 · 44.7%-1.2
3PA · 3P%0-of-21.8 · 41.7%+0.2
FTA · FT%2-of-21.1 · 86.4%+0.9
Rebounds22.4-0.4
Assists23.1-1.1
Turnovers30.9+2.1
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 20 games31.620.1+11.5
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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 (20 games)Change
Threes0 (0-of-2)2.3 (0.8-of-1.8)-2.3
Twos0 (0-of-3)4.0 (2.0-of-4.4)-4.0
Free throws2 (2-of-2)0.9 (0.9-of-1.1)+1.1
Total27.2-5.2
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Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

-2.5 against a usual 6.5 (-9.0)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-5.4
Rebounds0.0
Assists-0.8
Steals and blocks-0.8
Turnovers and fouls-2.0
Total-9.0
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Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 21 games, oldest first, this game last: 4.3, -0.7, -0.7, 10, 0.5, 7.7, 3, 9.2, 3.1, 15.8, 1.5, 0, 3.6, 15.3, 15.4, 18.7, 10.1, 8.4, 1.3, 2.8, -2.5

Lowest Game Score of 21 games this season.

Previous lowest: -0.7, set on Oct 27, 2025 and Oct 28, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Warriors won 120-97 at home against the Magic, a 23-point win.
  • Previous appearance: Dec 20, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Magic 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.