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AJ Johnson vs top-10 defenses

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

AJ Johnson has averaged 2.5 points and 1.2 assists per game in 12 games against top-10 defenses, vs 4.2 points and 1.0 assists in 29 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
2.5
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
4.2
points per game · 29 games
Difference
−1.7
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

AJ Johnson per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 10122.51.01.20.20.30.19.321.6%100.0%28.0%23.5%−1.7
Everyone else294.21.31.00.30.30.110.738.3%83.3%48.0%42.6%
2026-27Top 100–––––––––––
Everyone else10.00.00.00.00.01.03.10.0%–0.0%0.0%
2025-26Top 10122.51.01.20.20.30.19.321.6%100.0%28.0%23.5%−1.9
Everyone else284.41.41.00.40.30.111.038.6%83.3%48.3%43.0%

Every game against top-10 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. Apr 8, 2026at PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  3. Mar 30, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 min
  4. Mar 8, 2026at TOR · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 min
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Feb 20, 2026at MIN · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 min
  8. Feb 10, 2026at PHX · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 1 min
  9. 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
  10. Jan 11, 2026at PHX · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
  11. 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
  12. 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.