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Jalen Green vs top defenses

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

Jalen Green has averaged 19.8 points and 5.0 rebounds per game in 5 games against top-5 defenses, vs 17.6 points and 3.6 rebounds in 32 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
19.8
points per game · 5 games
Vs everyone else
17.6
points per game · 32 games
Difference
+2.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jalen Green per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5519.85.02.41.40.81.030.743.3%82.4%50.8%47.2%+2.2
Everyone else3217.63.63.12.31.00.327.043.1%70.7%52.3%50.3%
2026-27Top 5120.04.04.01.00.01.030.561.5%75.0%67.8%65.4%+11.2
Everyone else48.83.53.50.80.80.827.935.7%28.6%38.8%39.3%
2025-26Top 5419.85.32.01.51.01.030.840.3%84.6%47.8%44.2%+0.9
Everyone else2818.93.63.02.51.10.326.943.8%74.7%53.5%51.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 26, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)20 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  2. Apr 7, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 4 blk · 31 min
  3. Mar 19, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  4. Mar 16, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  5. Feb 19, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)26 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 26 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 (5 games here, 32 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 2 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.