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Jaylen Wells vs top defenses

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

Jaylen Wells has averaged 14.3 points and 2.8 rebounds per game in 6 games against top-5 defenses, vs 13.1 points and 3.2 rebounds in 52 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
14.3
points per game · 6 games
Vs everyone else
13.1
points per game · 52 games
Difference
+1.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jaylen Wells per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5614.32.81.31.71.30.226.745.7%75.0%55.8%52.9%+1.2
Everyone else5213.13.21.52.00.90.226.845.6%80.7%59.6%55.8%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else712.73.31.32.01.10.028.155.0%69.2%67.7%66.7%
2025-26Top 5614.32.81.31.71.30.226.745.7%75.0%55.8%52.9%+1.1
Everyone else4513.23.11.62.00.90.226.644.4%82.0%58.5%54.4%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Mar 20, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  2. Feb 21, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  3. Feb 2, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  4. Jan 31, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  5. Jan 9, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  6. Dec 22, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 32 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 (7 games here, 51 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 18 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.