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Tyus Jones

G · 6′1″ · Current team: Denver Nuggets

Regular season · Nov 18, 2025 · GSW 113 @ ORL 121 · Final

Tyus Jones 8 points vs Warriors (Nov 18, 2025)

ANSWER

8 PTS · 3-of-3 FG · 2-of-2 3P · 14:54 MIN

Usual before this game: 1.4 PTS · 2.6 FGA · 12.7 MIN, from 14 regular-season games

Game Score 9.2 against a usual 1.5 (+7.7)

SURPRISE SCORE
95Unusual
above usual

No more than 5 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far above their usual.

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

How the score works

Why did Tyus Jones score 8 points?

In 14:54 against the Warriors on Nov 18, 2025, Tyus Jones scored 8 points: 3-of-3 from the field, 2-of-2 from three. Before this game, Jones averaged 1.4 points on 2.6 shots in 12.7 minutes across 14 regular-season games. By shot type: threes 6 points (usual 0.4); two-pointers 2 points (usual 1.0). Playing time was 14:54, against a usual 12.7 minutes. The Magic won 121-113 at home against the Warriors. 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

Jones in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (14 games)Change
Minutes14:5412.7+2.2
Points81.4+6.6
Shots (FGA) · FG%3-of-32.6 · 25.0%+0.4
3PA · 3P%2-of-21.4 · 10.5%+0.6
Rebounds00.9-0.9
Assists31.4+1.6
Turnovers10.3+0.7
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 13 games11.59.9+1.6
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 (14 games)Change
Threes6 (2-of-2)0.4 (0.1-of-1.4)+5.6
Twos2 (1-of-1)1.0 (0.5-of-1.2)+1.0
Total81.4+6.6
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

9.2 against a usual 1.5 (+7.7)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+7.2
Rebounds-0.4
Assists+1.1
Steals and blocks+0.2
Turnovers and fouls-0.4
Total+7.7
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: -1, 3.3, -4, 5.8, 2.3, 4, 4.9, 0.3, -0.1, 0.4, -0.7, 2.6, 3.3, 0.2, 9.2

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Magic won 121-113 at home against the Warriors.
  • Previous appearance: Nov 16, 2025, 2 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Warriors this season.
  • The source holds fewer Magic games than this season has, so season highs, lows and ranks count only the games it holds.
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.