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Cooper Flagg vs top defenses

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

Cooper Flagg has averaged 25.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in 13 games against top-5 defenses, vs 22.5 points and 6.7 rebounds in 45 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
25.2
points per game · 13 games
Vs everyone else
22.5
points per game · 45 games
Difference
+2.7
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Cooper Flagg per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51325.26.54.31.00.91.034.050.6%84.5%57.9%53.2%+2.7
Everyone else4522.56.75.41.11.41.033.346.4%84.1%55.1%49.4%
2026-27Top 5330.36.35.31.01.70.734.955.9%81.5%64.2%58.5%+10.3
Everyone else320.05.07.71.33.31.332.139.6%100.0%53.6%43.8%
2025-26Top 51023.66.54.01.00.71.133.749.0%86.4%55.8%51.6%+1.0
Everyone else4222.66.85.21.01.31.033.446.8%82.9%55.2%49.7%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 30, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)33 pts, 9 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  2. Oct 28, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)26 pts, 5 reb, 8 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  3. Oct 21, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)32 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  4. Apr 10, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)33 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  5. Mar 6, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  6. Feb 7, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  7. Feb 5, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 3 blk · 38 min
  8. Jan 31, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 12 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  9. Dec 25, 2025at GSW · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 36 min
  10. Dec 18, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 10 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 3 blk · 40 min
  11. Dec 6, 2025vs HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 36 min
  12. Dec 5, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  13. Dec 3, 2025vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 31 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, 52 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 18 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.