Buddy Hield vs bottom-10 defenses
Buddy Hield has averaged 8.3 points and 3.0 rebounds per game in 7 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 7.1 points and 2.3 rebounds in 32 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs bottom-10 defenses
- 8.3
- points per game · 7 games
- Vs everyone else
- 7.1
- points per game · 32 games
- Difference
- +1.2
- per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else
Career and by season
| Period | Opponents | Games | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | MIN | FG% | FT% | TS% | eFG% | PTS diff vs others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | Bottom 10 | 7 | 8.3 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 13.8 | 50.0% | – | 63.0% | 63.0% | +1.2 |
| Everyone else | 32 | 7.1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 15.1 | 43.4% | 76.0% | 56.5% | 54.8% | ||
| 2026-27 | Bottom 10 | 2 | 11.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 15.9 | 69.2% | – | 84.6% | 84.6% | +7.8 |
| Everyone else | 5 | 3.2 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 12.8 | 31.6% | 100.0% | 41.2% | 39.5% | ||
| 2025-26 | Bottom 10 | 5 | 7.2 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 42.4% | – | 54.5% | 54.5% | −0.6 |
| Everyone else | 27 | 7.8 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 15.5 | 44.7% | 75.0% | 58.2% | 56.5% |
Every game against bottom-10 defenses
- Oct 24, 2026vs WAS · No. 30 defense (prior season's final)9 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
- Oct 23, 2026at MIL · No. 27 defense (prior season's final)13 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
- Apr 3, 2026at BKN · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 min
- Jan 28, 2026at UTA · No. 30 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
- Jan 9, 2026vs SAC · No. 27 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 min
- Dec 7, 2025at CHI · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
- Nov 29, 2025vs NOP · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 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, 32 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.