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Saddiq Bey

F · 6′8″ · Current team: New Orleans Pelicans

Regular season · Nov 19, 2025 · DEN 125 @ NOP 118 · Final

Saddiq Bey 2 points on 0-of-3 in 19 minutes vs Nuggets (Nov 19, 2025)

ANSWER

2 PTS · 0-of-3 FG · 0-of-3 3P · 2-of-4 FT · 18:54 MIN

Usual before this game: 12.4 PTS · 10.2 FGA · 27.5 MIN, from 13 regular-season games

Game Score 0.7 against a usual 9.9 (-9.2)

SURPRISE SCORE
95Unusual
below usual

No more than 5 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 Saddiq Bey score 2 points?

Saddiq Bey scored 2 points against the Nuggets on Nov 19, 2025 in 18:54: 0-of-3 from the field, 0-of-3 from three, 2-of-4 on free throws. Coming in, Bey had averaged 12.4 points on 10.2 shots in 27.5 minutes, from 13 regular-season games. Bey took 3 shots, 7.2 fewer than usual. Points by shot type, against the usual: threes 0 (6.5), two-pointers 0 (4.5). Playing time was 18:54, against a usual 27.5 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 1.3, against a usual 13.0. At home against the Nuggets, the Pelicans lost 125-118. 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

Bey in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (13 games)Change
Minutes18:5427.5-8.6
Points212.4-10.4
Shots (FGA) · FG%0-of-310.2 · 42.9%-7.2
3PA · 3P%0-of-35.4 · 40.0%-2.4
FTA · FT%2-of-42.1 · 70.4%+1.9
Rebounds24.8-2.8
Assists22.00.0
Turnovers10.7+0.3
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 13 games11.818.3-6.5
Game Score per 36 minutes1.313.0-11.7
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
Threes0 (0-of-3)6.5 (2.2-of-5.4)-6.5
Twos0 (0-of-0)4.5 (2.2-of-4.8)-4.5
Free throws2 (2-of-4)1.4 (1.4-of-2.1)+0.6
Total212.4-10.4
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

0.7 against a usual 9.9 (-9.2)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-7.6
Rebounds-1.5
Assists0.0
Steals and blocks+0.2
Turnovers and fouls-0.3
Total-9.2
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: 11.1, 8.4, 5.9, 5.8, 7.2, -1.2, 12.7, 18.6, 8.7, 10.3, 21.3, 11.7, 8.8, 0.7

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Pelicans lost 125-118 at home against the Nuggets.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 16, 2025, 3 days earlier.
  • Between the previous appearance and this game, the Pelicans played on Nov 17, 2025; Bey was not in that box score; the data does not say why.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Nuggets this season: 7 points (Oct 29, 2025).
06

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.