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Ben Saraf vs top defenses

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

Ben Saraf has averaged 5.4 points and 2.8 assists per game in 5 games against top-5 defenses, vs 8.6 points and 3.5 assists in 33 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
5.4
points per game · 5 games
Vs everyone else
8.6
points per game · 33 games
Difference
−3.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Ben Saraf per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 555.40.82.80.20.80.013.850.0%85.7%67.0%53.6%−3.2
Everyone else338.62.33.50.51.00.222.940.7%83.3%48.6%43.5%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else12.01.00.00.00.00.03.6100.0%–100.0%100.0%
2025-26Top 555.40.82.80.20.80.013.850.0%85.7%67.0%53.6%−3.4
Everyone else328.82.33.60.51.00.323.540.5%83.3%48.4%43.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Mar 10, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  2. Mar 7, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 min
  3. Mar 5, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
  4. Feb 27, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
  5. Feb 1, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 19 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, 37 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 7 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.