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Austin Reaves vs top defenses

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

Austin Reaves has averaged 22.2 points and 4.2 rebounds per game in 5 games against top-5 defenses, vs 22.1 points and 4.2 rebounds in 41 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
22.2
points per game · 5 games
Vs everyone else
22.1
points per game · 41 games
Difference
+0.1
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Austin Reaves per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5522.24.24.02.60.20.235.053.8%82.4%69.4%63.8%+0.1
Everyone else4122.14.25.02.31.10.534.149.6%87.5%64.4%57.5%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else823.63.35.12.50.90.535.853.9%86.5%68.5%62.6%
2025-26Top 5522.24.24.02.60.20.235.053.8%82.4%69.4%63.8%+0.5
Everyone else3321.74.55.02.21.20.533.748.5%87.7%63.4%56.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 2, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  2. Mar 23, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  3. Mar 19, 2026at MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 40 min
  4. Feb 9, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 2 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  5. Nov 28, 2025vs DAL · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)38 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 6 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 41 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 (8 games here, 38 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 13 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.