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Evan Mobley vs top defenses

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

Evan Mobley has averaged 18.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in 9 games against top-5 defenses, vs 18.0 points and 9.6 rebounds in 45 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
18.9
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
18.0
points per game · 45 games
Difference
+0.9
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Evan Mobley per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5918.95.93.01.70.91.732.358.3%70.0%66.3%64.8%+0.9
Everyone else4518.09.63.60.80.61.731.056.4%60.5%60.6%59.5%
2026-27Top 5116.07.04.01.01.02.032.754.5%75.0%62.7%59.1%−3.7
Everyone else619.78.23.52.50.51.032.858.1%63.0%68.7%68.2%
2025-26Top 5819.35.82.91.80.91.632.358.7%69.2%66.7%65.4%+1.6
Everyone else3917.79.83.60.50.61.830.856.2%60.1%59.4%58.2%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Nov 2, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)16 pts, 7 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 33 min
  2. Mar 8, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 3 blk · 31 min
  3. Mar 3, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  4. Feb 27, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 12 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 4 blk · 37 min
  5. Feb 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  6. Jan 19, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  7. Jan 10, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  8. Jan 8, 2026at MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  9. Jan 4, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 4 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 4 blk · 33 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, 47 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.