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Andre Drummond vs top defenses

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

Andre Drummond has averaged 4.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game in 9 games against top-5 defenses, vs 6.1 points and 8.3 rebounds in 47 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
4.7
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
6.1
points per game · 47 games
Difference
−1.4
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Andre Drummond per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 594.75.31.20.20.30.214.451.4%44.4%53.9%54.3%−1.4
Everyone else476.18.31.50.50.60.918.443.4%66.1%50.5%48.0%
2026-27Top 526.05.00.50.00.00.010.766.7%0.0%60.7%66.7%+0.6
Everyone else55.48.61.60.00.20.814.437.9%62.5%41.5%37.9%
2025-26Top 574.35.41.40.30.40.315.446.2%57.1%51.6%50.0%−1.8
Everyone else426.18.21.50.60.60.918.944.1%66.7%51.7%49.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 27, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)10 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 14 min
  2. Oct 23, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)2 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 7 min
  3. Apr 9, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 15 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  4. Apr 6, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 9 min
  5. Apr 4, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  6. Apr 3, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 9 min
  7. Mar 23, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  8. Mar 3, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 min
  9. Dec 28, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 18 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, 49 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 15 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.