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Aaron Nesmith vs top-10 defenses

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

Aaron Nesmith has averaged 11.8 points and 3.7 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-10 defenses, vs 13.7 points and 3.8 rebounds in 28 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
11.8
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
13.7
points per game · 28 games
Difference
−1.9
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Aaron Nesmith per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 101211.83.71.92.30.30.628.341.9%84.2%56.2%53.4%−1.9
Everyone else2813.73.82.02.00.60.528.543.1%85.3%56.8%52.5%
2026-27Top 100–––––––––––
Everyone else612.22.21.81.70.70.223.139.3%86.4%55.6%48.2%
2025-26Top 101211.83.71.92.30.30.628.341.9%84.2%56.2%53.4%−2.3
Everyone else2214.14.32.12.10.60.630.044.0%84.9%57.1%53.4%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Mar 23, 2026at ORL · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  2. Mar 21, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  3. Mar 17, 2026at NYK · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  4. Mar 13, 2026vs NYK · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  5. Feb 8, 2026at TOR · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  6. Feb 2, 2026vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  7. Jan 23, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  8. Jan 14, 2026vs TOR · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  9. Jan 10, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 9 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  10. Jan 2, 2026vs SAS · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 29 min
  11. Dec 29, 2025at HOU · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 24 min
  12. Dec 27, 2025at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 19 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 (6 games here, 34 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 11 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.