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Herbert Jones vs top defenses

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

Herbert Jones has averaged 11.2 points and 3.7 assists per game in 6 games against top-5 defenses, vs 8.0 points and 2.5 assists in 41 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
11.2
points per game · 6 games
Vs everyone else
8.0
points per game · 41 games
Difference
+3.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Herbert Jones per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5611.22.83.71.52.01.331.845.0%100.0%54.2%52.5%+3.2
Everyone else418.03.22.51.31.50.426.137.7%82.5%48.3%45.8%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else77.12.71.00.91.10.122.145.5%80.0%54.1%52.3%
2025-26Top 5611.22.83.71.52.01.331.845.0%100.0%54.2%52.5%+3.1
Everyone else348.13.32.81.41.60.426.936.5%82.9%47.4%44.8%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Mar 26, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 0 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 27 min
  2. Mar 24, 2026at NYK · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  3. Feb 11, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  4. Jan 27, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 27 min
  5. Jan 25, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 29 min
  6. Dec 18, 2025vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 8 stl, 1 blk · 38 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, 40 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 16 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.