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Jalen Suggs vs top defenses

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

Jalen Suggs has averaged 14.3 points and 4.8 assists per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 12.6 points and 6.0 assists in 37 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
14.3
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
12.6
points per game · 37 games
Difference
+1.7
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jalen Suggs per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51214.33.94.83.01.60.729.438.9%77.8%52.1%50.3%+1.7
Everyone else3712.64.06.01.82.00.828.841.9%83.9%52.4%49.6%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else38.05.05.70.32.00.333.435.7%75.0%40.3%37.5%
2025-26Top 51214.33.94.83.01.60.729.438.9%77.8%52.1%50.3%+1.3
Everyone else3413.03.96.01.92.00.828.442.3%84.5%53.3%50.5%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 12, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 7 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 38 min
  2. Apr 8, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 0 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  3. Apr 6, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 6 reb, 12 ast · 2 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  4. Mar 17, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 7 reb, 6 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  5. Mar 14, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  6. Mar 1, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 26 min
  7. Feb 26, 2026vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 13 min
  8. Feb 3, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 3 reb, 6 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  9. Feb 1, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  10. Dec 9, 2025vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  11. Dec 5, 2025vs MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 28 min
  12. Nov 28, 2025at DET · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 4 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 (3 games here, 46 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 13 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.