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John Collins vs top defenses

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

John Collins has averaged 13.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in 11 games against top-5 defenses, vs 13.6 points and 5.6 rebounds in 49 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
13.6
points per game · 11 games
Vs everyone else
13.6
points per game · 49 games
Difference
0.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

John Collins per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51113.65.92.00.91.50.628.453.1%66.7%59.4%57.5%0.0
Everyone else4913.65.60.91.50.70.927.056.5%76.9%66.4%64.6%
2026-27Top 516.05.01.00.01.01.025.542.9%–42.9%42.9%−2.8
Everyone else68.86.80.51.20.31.025.642.3%40.0%48.9%49.0%
2025-26Top 51014.46.02.11.01.50.628.753.8%66.7%60.4%58.5%+0.2
Everyone else4314.25.50.91.60.80.827.258.3%79.1%68.5%66.5%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 20, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)6 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 25 min
  2. Apr 8, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 9 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  3. Apr 2, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  4. Mar 16, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 9 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  5. Feb 11, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  6. Feb 10, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  7. Jan 10, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 5 3PM · 4 stl, 4 blk · 37 min
  8. Dec 23, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 30 min
  9. Dec 18, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  10. Dec 11, 2025at HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  11. Dec 1, 2025at MIA · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 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, 53 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 17 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.