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Santi Aldama

F-C · 7′0″ · Current team: Dallas Mavericks

Regular season · Dec 15, 2025 · MEM 121 @ LAC 103 · Final

Santi Aldama 3 points on 1-of-5 vs Clippers (Dec 15, 2025): lowest of 26 games

ANSWER

3 PTS · 1-of-5 FG · 0-of-4 3P · 1-of-2 FT · 30:48 MIN

Usual before this game: 13.5 PTS · 10.8 FGA · 26.4 MIN, from 25 regular-season games

Lowest Game Score of the 26 games the source holds this season: 1.5 against a usual 12.0 (-10.5)

Season-low 3 points among the games the source holds (previous low 4, set on Dec 2, 2025)

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 Santi Aldama score 3 points?

In 30:48 against the Clippers on Dec 15, 2025, Santi Aldama scored 3 points: 1-of-5 from the field, 0-of-4 from three, 1-of-2 on free throws. Coming in, Aldama had averaged 13.5 points on 10.8 shots in 26.4 minutes, from 25 regular-season games. No earlier game the source holds this season was as low as 3 points. By Game Score it was the lowest of the 26 games the source holds this season. Aldama took 5 shots, 5.8 fewer than usual. Points by shot type, against the usual: two-pointers 2 (7.2), threes 0 (4.6). Minutes: 30:48, against a usual 26.4; Game Score per 36 minutes: 1.8, against a usual 16.4. At the Clippers, the Grizzlies won 121-103. 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

Aldama in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (25 games)Change
Minutes30:4826.4+4.4
Points313.5-10.5
Shots (FGA) · FG%1-of-510.8 · 47.2%-5.8
3PA · 3P%0-of-44.4 · 34.2%-0.4
FTA · FT%1-of-22.6 · 67.2%-0.6
Rebounds26.5-4.5
Assists23.0-1.0
Turnovers11.00.0
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 25 games10.320.6-10.3
Game Score per 36 minutes1.816.4-14.6
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 (25 games)Change
Threes0 (0-of-4)4.6 (1.5-of-4.4)-4.6
Twos2 (1-of-1)7.2 (3.6-of-6.4)-5.2
Free throws1 (1-of-2)1.7 (1.7-of-2.6)-0.7
Total313.5-10.5
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

1.5 against a usual 12.0 (-10.5)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-8.1
Rebounds-1.5
Assists-0.7
Steals and blocks-0.4
Turnovers and fouls+0.2
Total-10.5
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 26 games, oldest first, this game last: 2.1, 12.3, 9.6, 12.1, 16.9, 4.7, 9.4, 6.3, 14.2, 8.4, 10.1, 17.8, 14.2, 11.8, 9.3, 24.4, 19, 12, 14.7, 14.9, 8.6, 5.2, 3.3, 21.1, 18.3, 1.5

Lowest Game Score of the 26 games the source holds this season.

Previous lowest: 2.1, set on Oct 22, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Grizzlies won 121-103 at the Clippers.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Clippers this season: 13 points (Nov 28, 2025), 7 points (Dec 5, 2025).
  • 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.