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Sidy Cissoko

G · 6′6″ · Current team: Portland Trail Blazers

Regular season · Dec 2, 2025 · POR 118 @ TOR 121 · Final

Sidy Cissoko 3 points on 1-of-5 vs Raptors (Dec 2, 2025): lowest of 16 games

ANSWER

3 PTS · 1-of-5 FG · 1-of-4 3P · 21:42 MIN

Usual before this game: 4.3 PTS · 3.9 FGA · 17.1 MIN, from 15 regular-season games

Lowest Game Score of 16 games this season: -2.1 against a usual 2.7 (-4.8)

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 Sidy Cissoko score 3 points?

In 21:42 against the Raptors on Dec 2, 2025, Sidy Cissoko scored 3 points: 1-of-5 from the field, 1-of-4 from three, no free throw attempts. Before this game, Cissoko averaged 4.3 points on 3.9 shots in 17.1 minutes across 15 regular-season games. By Game Score it was the lowest of 16 games this season. Points by shot type, against the usual: two-pointers 0 (1.9), threes 3 (1.8). Cissoko played 21:42 against a usual 17.1 minutes; per 36 minutes the Game Score was -3.5, against a usual 5.8. At the Raptors, the Trail Blazers lost 121-118. 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

Cissoko in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (15 games)Change
Minutes21:4217.1+4.6
Points34.3-1.3
Shots (FGA) · FG%1-of-53.9 · 39.0%+1.1
3PA · 3P%1-of-42.2 · 27.3%+1.8
FTA · FT%0-of-01.1 · 62.5%-1.1
Rebounds22.00.0
Assists01.4-1.4
Turnovers10.9+0.1
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 14 games11.812.3-0.5
Game Score per 36 minutes-3.55.8-9.3
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 (15 games)Change
Threes3 (1-of-4)1.8 (0.6-of-2.2)+1.2
Twos0 (0-of-1)1.9 (0.9-of-1.7)-1.9
Free throws0 (0-of-0)0.6 (0.6-of-1.1)-0.6
Total34.3-1.3
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

-2.1 against a usual 2.7 (-4.8)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-2.1
Rebounds+0.2
Assists-1.0
Steals and blocks-0.6
Turnovers and fouls-1.3
Total-4.8
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 16 games, oldest first, this game last: 0, 8, -0.2, 0, 4.2, -0.1, 3.6, -1.3, 7.9, 2.6, 7.4, 4.6, 1.9, -0.2, 2.7, -2.1

Lowest Game Score of 16 games this season.

Previous lowest: -1.3, set on Nov 16, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Trail Blazers lost 121-118 at the Raptors.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 30, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Raptors this season.
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.