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Aneesah Morrow

PF · 6′1″ · Current team: Toronto Tempo

Regular season · Aug 25, 2025 · CON 79 @ NYL 81 · Final

Aneesah Morrow 18 points vs Liberty (Aug 25, 2025): 3rd-best of 34 games

ANSWER

18 PTS · 6-of-11 FG · 3-of-3 3P · 3-of-4 FT · 25:48 MIN

Usual before this game: 7.2 PTS · 7.0 FGA · 17.8 MIN, from 33 regular-season games

3rd-best Game Score of 34 games this season: 17.4 against a usual 5.3 (+12.1)

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 once or twice a season.

How the score works

Why did Aneesah Morrow score 18 points?

Aneesah Morrow scored 18 points against the Liberty on Aug 25, 2025 in 25:48: 6-of-11 from the field (54.5%), 3-of-3 from three, 3-of-4 on free throws. Before this game, Morrow averaged 7.2 points on 7.0 shots in 17.8 minutes across 33 regular-season games. This game had the 3rd-best Game Score of 34 games this season. Shot attempts: 11, against a usual 7.0. Morrow shot 54.5% from the field, against a usual 37.7%. Points by shot type, against the usual: threes 9 (1.2), two-pointers 6 (4.5), free throws 3 (1.5). Playing time was 25:48, against a usual 17.8 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 24.3, against a usual 10.8. Rebounds: 15, against a usual 6.1. At the Liberty, the Sun lost 81-79. 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

Morrow in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (33 games)Change
Minutes25:4817.8+8.0
Points187.2+10.8
Shots (FGA) · FG%11 · 54.5%7.0 · 37.7%+4.0 · +16.8
3PA · 3P%3-of-31.7 · 22.8%+1.3
FTA · FT%3-of-41.9 · 81.0%+2.1
Rebounds156.1+8.9
Assists00.5-0.5
Turnovers11.2-0.2
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 32 games23.923.1+0.8
Game Score per 36 minutes24.310.8+13.5
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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 (33 games)Change
Threes9 (3-of-3)1.2 (0.4-of-1.7)+7.8
Twos6 (3-of-8)4.5 (2.2-of-5.3)+1.5
Free throws3 (3-of-4)1.5 (1.5-of-1.9)+1.5
Total187.2+10.8
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

17.4 against a usual 5.3 (+12.1)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+9.1
Rebounds+3.5
Assists-0.3
Steals and blocks-1.2
Turnovers and fouls+1.0
Total+12.1
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 34 games, oldest first, this game last: -1.5, 1.7, -2.1, 2.4, 5.1, 2.1, -1.2, 0, 14.3, 11.1, 8.3, -3.5, 17.6, 17.6, 4.8, 3.3, 1.8, 5.9, 2.8, 2.9, 6.5, 8.1, 4.4, 14, -3.9, 5.2, 4.1, 10.9, 10.7, 10.1, 0.5, 4.4, 7.5, 17.4

3rd-best Game Score of 34 games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Sun lost 81-79 at the Liberty.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Liberty this season: 8 points (Jun 1, 2025), 4 points (Aug 1, 2025), 16 points (Aug 3, 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 WNBA regular-season games of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, checked on 2026.