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AJ Johnson vs top defenses

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

AJ Johnson has averaged 4.0 points and 1.7 assists per game in 6 games against top-5 defenses, vs 3.7 points and 0.9 assists in 35 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
4.0
points per game · 6 games
Vs everyone else
3.7
points per game · 35 games
Difference
+0.3
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

AJ Johnson per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 564.01.21.70.30.30.211.533.3%100.0%41.7%37.0%+0.3
Everyone else353.71.20.90.30.30.110.133.1%84.4%42.1%36.7%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else10.00.00.00.00.01.03.10.0%–0.0%0.0%
2025-26Top 564.01.21.70.30.30.211.533.3%100.0%41.7%37.0%+0.2
Everyone else343.81.31.00.30.30.110.333.3%84.4%42.4%37.0%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 10, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 20 min
  2. Mar 6, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 min
  3. Mar 1, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  4. Feb 7, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 7 min
  5. Jan 4, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 13 min
  6. Dec 26, 2025vs TOR · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 2 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 (1 game here, 40 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 8 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.