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Awak Kuier

PF · 6′6″ · Current team: Dallas Wings

Regular season · Aug 20, 2026 · IND 85 @ DAL 91 · Final

Awak Kuier: season-high 7 blocks vs Fever (Aug 20, 2026)

ANSWER

11 PTS · 7 BLK · 4-of-8 FG · 2-of-6 3P · 1-of-2 FT · 35:42 MIN

Usual before this game: 5.5 PTS · 1.2 BLK · 4.4 FGA · 16.4 MIN, from 33 regular-season games

Best Game Score of 34 games this season: 17.7 against a usual 4.9 (+12.8)

Season-high 7 blocks (previous high 4, set on Jul 20, 2026)

SURPRISE SCORE
96Unusual
above usual

No more than 4 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 Awak Kuier have 7 blocks?

In 35:42 against the Fever on Aug 20, 2026, Awak Kuier scored 11 points: 4-of-8 from the field, 2-of-6 from three (33.3%), 1-of-2 on free throws. Before this game, Kuier averaged 5.5 points on 4.4 shots in 16.4 minutes across 33 regular-season games. The previous high this season was 4 blocks. This game had the best Game Score of 34 games this season. Shot attempts: 8, against a usual 4.4. From threes, 6 points against a usual 1.7. Playing time was 35:42, against a usual 16.4 minutes; per 36 minutes, the Game Score was 17.8, against a usual 10.7. Steals and blocks: 1 and 7, against a usual 0.5 and 1.2. The Wings won 91-85 at home against the Fever. 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

Kuier in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (33 games)Change
Minutes35:4216.4+19.3
Points115.5+5.5
Shots (FGA) · FG%4-of-84.4 · 48.6%+3.6
3PA · 3P%6 · 33.3%1.8 · 32.2%+4.2 · +1.1
FTA · FT%1-of-21.0 · 72.7%+1.0
Rebounds83.2+4.8
Assists40.9+3.1
Turnovers00.9-0.9
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 32 games10.815.8-5.0
Game Score per 36 minutes17.810.7+7.1
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 (33 games)Change
Threes6 (2-of-6)1.7 (0.6-of-1.8)+4.3
Twos4 (2-of-2)3.1 (1.5-of-2.6)+0.9
Free throws1 (1-of-2)0.7 (0.7-of-1.0)+0.3
Total115.5+5.5
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

17.7 against a usual 4.9 (+12.8)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+3.4
Rebounds+1.5
Assists+2.1
Steals and blocks+4.6
Turnovers and fouls+1.2
Total+12.8
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 34 games, oldest first, this game last: 2, 6.6, -0.7, 13.8, -1.5, 12.9, 12, 10.9, 2.6, 7.1, 3.1, -0.2, -2.1, 1.8, 3.8, -0.5, 1.1, 12.3, 16.6, 3.6, -0.1, 0.4, 9, 1.1, 1.8, -1.1, 5.3, 5, 2.6, 2.8, 14.1, 8.1, 6.5, 17.7

Best Game Score of 34 games this season.

Previous best: 16.6, set on Jul 7, 2026.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Wings won 91-85 at home against the Fever.
  • Previous appearance: Aug 17, 2026, 3 days earlier.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Fever this season: 0 points (May 9, 2026), 8 points (Aug 14, 2026).
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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.