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Sidy Cissoko

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

Regular season · Dec 20, 2025 · POR 98 @ SAC 93 · Final

Sidy Cissoko 1 point on 0-of-5 vs Kings (Dec 20, 2025): lowest of 23 games

ANSWER

1 PTS · 0-of-5 FG · 0-of-3 3P · 1-of-2 FT · 23:36 MIN

Usual before this game: 5.5 PTS · 4.8 FGA · 19.9 MIN, from 22 regular-season games

Lowest Game Score of 23 games this season: -4.1 against a usual 3.5 (-7.6)

SURPRISE SCORE
99Very rare
below usual

No more than 1 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 less than once a season.

How the score works

Why did Sidy Cissoko score 1 point?

Sidy Cissoko scored 1 point against the Kings on Dec 20, 2025 in 23:36: 0-of-5 from the field, 0-of-3 from three, 1-of-2 on free throws. Coming in, Cissoko had averaged 5.5 points on 4.8 shots in 19.9 minutes, from 22 regular-season games. This game had the lowest Game Score of 23 games this season. By shot type: threes 0 points (usual 2.8); two-pointers 0 points (usual 2.1). Cissoko played 23:36 against a usual 19.9 minutes; per 36 minutes the Game Score was -6.3, against a usual 6.3. The Trail Blazers won 98-93 at the Kings. 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

Cissoko in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (22 games)Change
Minutes23:3619.9+3.7
Points15.5-4.5
Shots (FGA) · FG%0-of-54.8 · 41.5%+0.2
3PA · 3P%0-of-32.8 · 33.9%+0.2
FTA · FT%1-of-20.9 · 68.4%+1.1
Rebounds32.2+0.8
Assists11.4-0.4
Turnovers21.0+1.0
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 21 games14.312.4+1.9
Game Score per 36 minutes-6.36.3-12.6
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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 (22 games)Change
Threes0 (0-of-3)2.8 (0.9-of-2.8)-2.8
Twos0 (0-of-2)2.1 (1.0-of-2.0)-2.1
Free throws1 (1-of-2)0.6 (0.6-of-0.9)+0.4
Total15.5-4.5
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Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

-4.1 against a usual 3.5 (-7.6)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-5.8
Rebounds+0.3
Assists-0.2
Steals and blocks-0.7
Turnovers and fouls-1.2
Total-7.6
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Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 23 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, 10.3, 5.4, -0.7, 18.1, 4.8, -0.3, -4.1

Lowest Game Score of 23 games this season.

Previous lowest: -2.1, set on Dec 2, 2025.

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Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Trail Blazers won 98-93 at the Kings.
  • Previous appearance: Dec 18, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Kings this season: 3 points (Dec 18, 2025).
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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.