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Jabari Smith Jr. vs top defenses

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

Jabari Smith Jr. has averaged 15.9 points and 7.8 rebounds per game in 9 games against top-5 defenses, vs 16.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in 62 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
15.9
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
16.3
points per game · 62 games
Difference
−0.4
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jabari Smith Jr. per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5915.97.81.82.60.90.935.648.0%81.3%63.8%59.7%−0.4
Everyone else6216.36.72.02.40.70.935.445.2%77.8%57.2%54.3%
2026-27Top 5317.08.02.03.70.71.034.451.5%85.7%70.7%68.2%−2.2
Everyone else519.25.42.62.81.00.634.647.8%88.9%62.4%58.0%
2025-26Top 5615.37.71.72.01.00.836.246.2%80.0%60.5%55.4%−0.7
Everyone else5716.06.81.92.30.70.935.544.9%76.5%56.7%53.9%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Nov 2, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)14 pts, 10 reb, 0 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  2. Oct 31, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)30 pts, 9 reb, 5 ast · 6 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  3. Oct 23, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)7 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 34 min
  4. Mar 8, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  5. Feb 7, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 10 reb, 0 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 43 min
  6. Jan 28, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  7. Jan 23, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 37 min
  8. Jan 20, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  9. Jan 15, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 10 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 34 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 (8 games here, 63 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 14 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.