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Jalen Duren vs top defenses

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

Jalen Duren has averaged 19.3 points and 10.1 rebounds per game in 7 games against top-5 defenses, vs 19.0 points and 10.2 rebounds in 50 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
19.3
points per game · 7 games
Vs everyone else
19.0
points per game · 50 games
Difference
+0.3
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jalen Duren per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5719.310.11.40.00.70.625.660.0%73.0%63.5%60.0%+0.3
Everyone else5019.010.22.00.00.80.928.065.0%74.7%68.7%65.0%
2026-27Top 5122.09.01.00.01.01.028.061.5%85.7%68.4%61.5%+18.0
Everyone else14.06.03.00.01.01.010.150.0%–50.0%50.0%
2025-26Top 5618.810.31.50.00.70.525.259.7%70.0%62.6%59.7%−0.5
Everyone else4919.310.22.00.00.80.928.465.1%74.7%68.8%65.1%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 20, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)22 pts, 9 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 28 min
  2. Apr 2, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 14 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 35 min
  3. Mar 5, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 12 min
  4. Feb 25, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 15 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  5. Feb 23, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 14 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  6. Jan 23, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 7 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  7. Jan 1, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 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 (2 games here, 55 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 15 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.