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Donovan Mitchell vs top-10 defenses

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

Donovan Mitchell has averaged 23.5 points and 6.2 assists per game in 21 games against top-10 defenses, vs 28.3 points and 5.4 assists in 39 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
23.5
points per game · 21 games
Vs everyone else
28.3
points per game · 39 games
Difference
−4.8
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

per game averages · 2025-26 to 2026-27 · regular season
Donovan Mitchell per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 102123.55.36.22.91.60.333.843.6%81.5%56.5%51.6%−4.8
Everyone else3928.34.15.42.91.40.333.149.6%89.8%62.1%56.8%
2026-27Top 10221.55.09.04.51.00.537.342.1%40.0%53.5%53.9%−0.5
Everyone else522.05.44.01.81.20.431.949.3%87.9%62.8%55.5%
2025-26Top 101923.75.35.92.71.70.333.543.8%83.3%56.8%51.3%−5.5
Everyone else3429.23.95.63.11.40.233.249.6%90.1%62.1%57.0%

Every game against top-10 defenses

21 games · newest first · opponent's defensive rank that day
  1. Nov 2, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)17 pts, 5 reb, 11 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  2. Oct 26, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (prior season's final)26 pts, 5 reb, 7 ast · 5 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 38 min
  3. Apr 8, 2026vs ATL · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 7 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  4. Mar 27, 2026vs MIA · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 4 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 4 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  5. Mar 25, 2026vs MIA · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)28 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  6. Mar 11, 2026at ORL · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  7. Mar 8, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 34 min
  8. Feb 24, 2026vs NYK · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  9. Feb 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  10. Jan 30, 2026at PHX · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 3 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  11. Jan 19, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  12. Jan 16, 2026at PHI · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 9 reb, 12 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
  13. Jan 14, 2026at PHI · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 7 reb, 9 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  14. Jan 10, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)28 pts, 3 reb, 8 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  15. Jan 8, 2026at MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 7 reb, 8 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  16. Jan 4, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  17. Dec 31, 2025vs PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 10 reb, 7 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  18. Dec 29, 2025at SAS · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 2 reb, 7 ast · 2 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  19. Dec 27, 2025at HOU · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 3 reb, 6 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  20. Dec 6, 2025vs GSW · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 7 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  21. Dec 5, 2025vs SAS · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)28 pts, 2 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 32 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, 53 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 17 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.