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Jalen Williams vs top defenses

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

Jalen Williams has averaged 14.3 points and 4.0 rebounds per game in 8 games against top-5 defenses, vs 17.5 points and 4.8 rebounds in 28 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
14.3
points per game · 8 games
Vs everyone else
17.5
points per game · 28 games
Difference
−3.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jalen Williams per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5814.34.03.00.60.90.125.249.5%82.6%56.4%52.2%−3.2
Everyone else2817.54.86.00.81.30.429.747.2%83.6%55.1%49.9%
2026-27Top 5112.07.02.01.01.01.029.931.3%50.0%35.5%34.4%−2.5
Everyone else214.53.54.01.01.00.532.543.5%87.5%54.7%47.8%
2025-26Top 5714.63.63.10.60.90.024.653.3%85.7%60.5%56.0%−3.1
Everyone else2617.74.96.10.71.30.329.547.4%83.3%55.1%50.0%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 20, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)12 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  2. Mar 29, 2026vs NYK · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  3. Mar 25, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  4. Jan 17, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 14 min
  5. Jan 13, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 0 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  6. Jan 11, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  7. Jan 2, 2026at GSW · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  8. Dec 5, 2025vs DAL · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 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, 33 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. TS% = PTS ÷ (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)); eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA; both from totals for each row. Past results, not a projection.