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Brandin Podziemski vs top defenses

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

Brandin Podziemski has averaged 15.6 points and 5.6 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 14.5 points and 5.3 rebounds in 59 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
15.6
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
14.5
points per game · 59 games
Difference
+1.1
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Brandin Podziemski per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51215.65.63.82.01.00.329.341.4%76.8%55.1%49.7%+1.1
Everyone else5914.55.34.01.91.00.229.347.4%79.0%59.6%56.2%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else617.04.85.02.31.20.333.446.8%70.0%58.1%55.7%
2025-26Top 51215.65.63.82.01.00.329.341.4%76.8%55.1%49.7%+1.3
Everyone else5314.35.33.91.91.00.228.847.4%80.3%59.8%56.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 1, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  2. Mar 20, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  3. Mar 18, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  4. Mar 7, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
  5. Mar 5, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 9 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
  6. Feb 11, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  7. Jan 30, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 8 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  8. Jan 20, 2026vs TOR · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 22 min
  9. Jan 19, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  10. Jan 2, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 26 min
  11. Dec 2, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  12. Nov 26, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 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 (6 games here, 65 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 19 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.