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Te-Hina Paopao

SG · 5′9″ · Current team: Atlanta Dream

Regular season · Aug 29, 2025 · DAL 78 @ ATL 100 · Final

Te-Hina Paopao 14 points vs Wings (Aug 29, 2025): season-best Game Score

ANSWER

14 PTS · 5-of-8 FG · 4-of-7 3P · 26:36 MIN

Usual before this game: 5.7 PTS · 4.9 FGA · 16.0 MIN, from 37 regular-season games

Best Game Score of 38 games this season: 18.9 against a usual 4.2 (+14.7)

SURPRISE SCORE
98Rare
above usual

No more than 2 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 a season or less.

How the score works

Why did Te-Hina Paopao score 14 points?

In 26:36 against the Wings on Aug 29, 2025, Te-Hina Paopao scored 14 points: 5-of-8 from the field, 4-of-7 from three (57.1%). Coming in, Paopao had averaged 5.7 points on 4.9 shots in 16.0 minutes, from 37 regular-season games. This game had the best Game Score of 38 games this season. Shot attempts: 8, against a usual 4.9. Points by shot type, against the usual: threes 12 (3.5). Minutes: 26:36, against a usual 16.0; Game Score per 36 minutes: 25.6, against a usual 9.5. Paopao had 8 assists, against a usual 2.2. The Dream won 100-78 at home against the Wings, a 22-point win. 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

Paopao in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (37 games)Change
Minutes26:3616.0+10.6
Points145.7+8.3
Shots (FGA) · FG%5-of-84.9 · 44.4%+3.1
3PA · 3P%7 · 57.1%2.9 · 40.6%+4.1 · +16.5
Rebounds61.5+4.5
Assists82.2+5.8
Turnovers21.0+1.0
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 36 games18.117.6+0.5
Game Score per 36 minutes25.69.5+16.1
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 (37 games)Change
Threes12 (4-of-7)3.5 (1.2-of-2.9)+8.5
Twos2 (1-of-1)2.0 (1.0-of-2.0)0.0
Free throws0 (0-of-0)0.2 (0.2-of-0.4)-0.2
Total145.7+8.3
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

18.9 against a usual 4.2 (+14.7)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+7.3
Rebounds+2.1
Assists+4.1
Steals and blocks+2.2
Turnovers and fouls-1.0
Total+14.7
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 38 games, oldest first, this game last: 5.9, 0.1, 6.2, -1.4, 2.6, 4.6, 3.8, 2.1, -2.8, 16.2, 13.2, 4.3, 15.7, -1.1, -0.1, 0.5, 1.3, -1.4, 1.4, 1.7, 12.3, 3, -1.8, 4, 1.3, 7.7, 6, 8.7, 5.5, 3, 2.4, 2.4, 9.2, 2.9, 5.9, 7.4, 3.3, 18.9

Best Game Score of 38 games this season.

Previous best: 16.2, set on Jun 15, 2025.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Dream won 100-78 at home against the Wings, a 22-point win.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Wings this season: 0 points (May 24, 2025), 0 points (Jun 24, 2025), 11 points (Jul 30, 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.