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Jamal Murray vs top defenses

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

Jamal Murray has averaged 24.9 points and 7.6 assists per game in 15 games against top-5 defenses, vs 26.5 points and 6.9 assists in 50 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
24.9
points per game · 15 games
Vs everyone else
26.5
points per game · 50 games
Difference
−1.6
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jamal Murray per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51524.94.57.63.20.70.538.143.2%84.2%57.8%51.8%−1.6
Everyone else5026.54.46.93.60.90.435.050.1%89.2%64.8%60.1%
2026-27Top 516.010.03.00.01.00.036.818.2%50.0%23.5%18.2%−25.6
Everyone else531.64.66.25.41.01.038.752.1%84.6%71.1%66.5%
2025-26Top 51426.24.17.93.40.70.638.244.2%85.6%59.3%53.2%+0.3
Everyone else4525.94.47.03.40.80.434.649.9%90.0%64.1%59.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)6 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  2. Apr 4, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 4 reb, 10 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 46 min
  3. Mar 12, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)39 pts, 2 reb, 7 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 40 min
  4. Mar 9, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  5. Feb 27, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)39 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast · 7 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 47 min
  6. Feb 3, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 1 reb, 8 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 37 min
  7. Feb 1, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 5 reb, 12 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  8. Jan 27, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 5 reb, 10 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  9. Dec 29, 2025at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 6 reb, 11 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  10. Dec 25, 2025vs MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 2 reb, 10 ast · 9 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 43 min
  11. Dec 20, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 4 reb, 7 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  12. Dec 18, 2025vs ORL · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 7 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  13. Dec 15, 2025vs HOU · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 43 min
  14. Dec 1, 2025vs DAL · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 4 reb, 9 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  15. Nov 28, 2025vs SAS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)37 pts, 4 reb, 7 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 36 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 (6 games here, 59 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.