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Darius Garland vs bottom-10 defenses

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

Darius Garland has averaged 20.2 points and 7.0 assists per game in 18 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 19.2 points and 6.6 assists in 30 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
20.2
points per game · 18 games
Vs everyone else
19.2
points per game · 30 games
Difference
+1.0
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Darius Garland per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 101820.22.37.03.10.90.230.147.8%87.8%60.8%57.7%+1.0
Everyone else3019.22.36.62.51.00.231.045.9%82.0%57.0%54.0%
2026-27Bottom 10130.01.04.03.01.00.032.157.9%62.5%66.6%65.8%+11.5
Everyone else618.51.87.02.20.70.033.140.6%90.9%52.5%47.4%
2025-26Bottom 101719.62.47.23.10.90.230.047.1%92.7%60.3%57.1%+0.2
Everyone else2419.42.56.52.61.10.230.547.3%79.1%58.2%55.7%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Oct 21, 2026vs SAC · No. 28 defense (prior season's final)30 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  2. Apr 5, 2026at SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 4 reb, 6 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  3. Mar 29, 2026at MIL · No. 27 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 2 reb, 11 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  4. Mar 27, 2026at IND · No. 27 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 0 reb, 5 ast · 6 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  5. Mar 23, 2026vs MIL · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  6. Mar 18, 2026at NOP · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 1 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  7. Mar 14, 2026vs SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 3 reb, 7 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  8. Mar 4, 2026vs IND · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 4 reb, 8 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  9. Jan 12, 2026vs UTA · No. 30 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 2 reb, 8 ast · 5 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  10. Jan 6, 2026at IND · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  11. Jan 2, 2026vs DEN · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 2 reb, 8 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  12. Dec 23, 2025vs NOP · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 1 reb, 8 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  13. Dec 22, 2025vs CHA · No. 22 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 4 reb, 10 ast · 5 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  14. Dec 19, 2025vs CHI · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 2 reb, 8 ast · 6 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  15. Dec 17, 2025at CHI · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  16. Dec 14, 2025vs CHA · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 2 reb, 9 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  17. Dec 12, 2025at WAS · No. 30 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 3 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  18. Dec 3, 2025vs POR · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 2 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 29 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, 41 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 5 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.