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Jaden McDaniels vs top defenses

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

Jaden McDaniels has averaged 14.7 points and 4.3 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 14.7 points and 4.3 rebounds in 53 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
14.7
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
14.7
points per game · 53 games
Difference
0.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jaden McDaniels per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51214.74.32.81.40.81.133.447.2%85.2%56.5%53.1%0.0
Everyone else5314.74.32.91.41.10.931.452.3%80.8%61.4%58.6%
2026-27Top 5119.03.03.02.02.00.038.641.2%75.0%50.6%47.1%+2.6
Everyone else716.46.43.61.40.60.932.054.9%62.5%60.8%60.4%
2025-26Top 51114.34.42.81.40.71.232.948.0%87.0%57.2%53.9%−0.1
Everyone else4614.44.02.81.41.20.931.351.8%82.1%61.5%58.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 31, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)19 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
  2. Apr 10, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 4 blk · 35 min
  3. Mar 22, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  4. Mar 15, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
  5. Jan 29, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 31 min
  6. Jan 17, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 41 min
  7. Jan 11, 2026vs SAS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 3 blk · 36 min
  8. Jan 6, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  9. Jan 3, 2026at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 34 min
  10. Dec 19, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  11. Dec 12, 2025at GSW · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  12. Nov 26, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 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, 57 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.