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DeMar DeRozan vs top defenses

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

DeMar DeRozan has averaged 17.7 points and 4.6 assists per game in 10 games against top-5 defenses, vs 17.6 points and 4.0 assists in 55 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
17.7
points per game · 10 games
Vs everyone else
17.6
points per game · 55 games
Difference
+0.1
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

DeMar DeRozan per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51017.72.24.60.20.80.230.553.4%83.6%62.0%54.3%+0.1
Everyone else5517.62.94.00.61.00.330.348.2%86.2%58.1%50.6%
2026-27Top 5113.02.00.00.00.00.028.255.6%50.0%55.8%55.6%+2.8
Everyone else510.22.03.20.41.20.224.437.2%94.4%50.1%39.5%
2025-26Top 5918.22.25.10.20.90.230.853.3%87.3%62.5%54.2%−0.2
Everyone else5018.43.04.10.61.00.430.948.9%85.7%58.6%51.4%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)13 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  2. Mar 17, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  3. Feb 25, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 1 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  4. Feb 21, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 1 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  5. Jan 25, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 0 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  6. Jan 11, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  7. Dec 23, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)37 pts, 3 reb, 8 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 42 min
  8. Dec 21, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 4 reb, 9 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 40 min
  9. Dec 6, 2025at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 40 min
  10. Dec 3, 2025at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 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, 59 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.