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Deni Avdija vs top defenses

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

Deni Avdija has averaged 26.0 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in 6 games against top-5 defenses, vs 24.0 points and 6.7 rebounds in 49 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
26.0
points per game · 6 games
Vs everyone else
24.0
points per game · 49 games
Difference
+2.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Deni Avdija per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5626.09.37.81.30.80.336.246.2%80.5%61.5%50.5%+2.0
Everyone else4924.06.77.01.70.80.632.846.9%77.2%59.5%52.3%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else623.86.35.51.80.80.231.948.5%66.7%58.6%54.1%
2025-26Top 5626.09.37.81.30.80.336.246.2%80.5%61.5%50.5%+1.9
Everyone else4324.16.77.21.70.80.733.046.7%78.7%59.7%52.0%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 8, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  2. Dec 31, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 7 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  3. Dec 22, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 8 reb, 9 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  4. Dec 14, 2025vs GSW · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 7 reb, 8 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  5. Dec 5, 2025at DET · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 9 reb, 7 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  6. Nov 30, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 19 reb, 10 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 37 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, 49 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.