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Derrick Jones Jr. vs top defenses

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

Derrick Jones Jr. has averaged 8.6 points and 3.3 rebounds per game in 8 games against top-5 defenses, vs 10.6 points and 4.1 rebounds in 36 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
8.6
points per game · 8 games
Vs everyone else
10.6
points per game · 36 games
Difference
−2.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Derrick Jones Jr. per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 588.63.31.11.60.11.027.238.5%75.0%50.4%48.5%−2.0
Everyone else3610.64.11.61.11.20.927.952.1%75.4%61.7%59.3%
2026-27Top 5111.06.01.03.00.00.030.566.7%–91.7%91.7%−0.6
Everyone else511.64.61.62.01.40.628.351.2%66.7%63.5%62.8%
2025-26Top 578.32.91.11.40.11.126.735.6%75.0%46.4%44.1%−2.1
Everyone else3110.44.01.51.01.20.927.852.3%76.3%61.4%58.6%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 25, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)11 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  2. Apr 8, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  3. Apr 2, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  4. Mar 16, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 24 min
  5. Mar 6, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 34 min
  6. Feb 11, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 30 min
  7. Feb 10, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 27 min
  8. Dec 28, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 18 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, 38 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 13 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.