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A.J. Green vs top defenses

MIL · 2025-26 to 2026-27 · regular season

A.J. Green has averaged 10.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per game in 13 games against top-5 defenses, vs 9.8 points and 2.6 rebounds in 54 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
10.7
points per game · 13 games
Vs everyone else
9.8
points per game · 54 games
Difference
+0.9
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

A.J. Green per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51310.72.92.53.20.50.329.344.1%100.0%66.1%64.7%+0.9
Everyone else549.82.61.92.80.50.128.140.9%88.6%60.2%58.7%
2026-27Top 519.01.02.03.00.00.024.050.0%–75.0%75.0%+1.7
Everyone else67.32.31.52.20.20.019.346.9%100.0%67.8%67.2%
2025-26Top 51210.83.12.63.30.50.329.843.8%100.0%65.6%64.1%+0.7
Everyone else4810.12.71.92.90.50.129.340.5%88.2%59.6%58.0%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 28, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)9 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  2. Apr 8, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  3. Apr 3, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 1 reb, 5 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  4. Apr 1, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 47 min
  5. Mar 28, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 27 min
  6. Mar 12, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  7. Mar 2, 2026vs BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  8. Feb 24, 2026vs MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  9. Feb 12, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  10. Jan 21, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  11. Jan 15, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  12. Dec 3, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 40 min
  13. Nov 26, 2025at MIA · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 5 reb, 8 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 36 min

What counts: a team's defensive rating is 100 × the points its opponents scored ÷ possessions, with possessions = FGA + 0.44*FTA - OREB + TOV, mean of both teams. A game's rank uses only games played before that date. Until every team has 15 games, the prior season's final ranks are used (7 games here, 60 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 18 games where the opponent's rank could not be determined are left out of both columns. TS% = PTS ÷ (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)); eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA; both from totals for each row. Past results, not a projection.