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AJ Lawson vs top defenses

TOR · 2025-26 · regular season

AJ Lawson has averaged 6.3 points and 1.7 rebounds per game in 3 games against top-5 defenses, vs 3.9 points and 1.8 rebounds in 21 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
6.3
points per game · 3 games
Vs everyone else
3.9
points per game · 21 games
Difference
+2.4
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

AJ Lawson per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 536.31.70.01.00.30.011.766.7%80.0%84.8%83.3%+2.4
Everyone else213.91.80.30.80.50.29.140.6%76.9%54.9%52.2%
2025-26Top 536.31.70.01.00.30.011.766.7%80.0%84.8%83.3%+2.4
Everyone else213.91.80.30.80.50.29.140.6%76.9%54.9%52.2%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 5, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 6 min
  2. Mar 31, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  3. Jan 20, 2026at GSW · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 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 (0 games here, 24 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. TS% = PTS ÷ (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)); eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA; both from totals for each row. Past results, not a projection.