Jayson Tatum vs top defenses
Jayson Tatum has averaged 18.8 points and 7.3 assists per game in 4 games against top-5 defenses, vs 24.3 points and 5.8 assists in 19 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-5 defenses
- 18.8
- points per game · 4 games
- Vs everyone else
- 24.3
- points per game · 19 games
- Difference
- −5.5
- per game, top 5 minus everyone else
Career and by season
| Period | Opponents | Games | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | MIN | FG% | FT% | TS% | eFG% | PTS diff vs others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | Top 5 | 4 | 18.8 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 33.0 | 34.7% | 100.0% | 46.0% | 40.0% | −5.5 |
| Everyone else | 19 | 24.3 | 9.2 | 5.8 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 33.5 | 42.8% | 82.7% | 56.1% | 49.9% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 5 | 2 | 16.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 35.1 | 28.2% | 100.0% | 37.2% | 29.5% | −15.4 |
| Everyone else | 5 | 31.4 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 35.2 | 47.1% | 85.0% | 61.1% | 52.0% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 5 | 2 | 21.5 | 8.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 31.0 | 41.7% | 100.0% | 55.6% | 51.4% | −0.3 |
| Everyone else | 14 | 21.8 | 10.2 | 5.4 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 32.9 | 41.0% | 80.8% | 53.9% | 49.0% |
Every game against top-5 defenses
- Nov 2, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)19 pts, 6 reb, 9 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
- Oct 20, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)13 pts, 4 reb, 11 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
- Mar 25, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 12 reb, 7 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
- Mar 10, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 27 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, 16 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.