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Jose Alvarado vs top defenses

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

Jose Alvarado has averaged 5.7 points and 3.6 assists per game in 10 games against top-5 defenses, vs 7.4 points and 3.4 assists in 45 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
5.7
points per game · 10 games
Vs everyone else
7.4
points per game · 45 games
Difference
−1.7
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Jose Alvarado per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5105.73.03.61.11.00.018.034.4%57.1%44.5%43.4%−1.7
Everyone else457.42.23.41.51.00.219.543.2%76.9%56.2%54.9%
2026-27Top 512.02.02.00.01.00.010.850.0%–50.0%50.0%−2.0
Everyone else24.01.51.51.01.00.512.637.5%–50.0%50.0%
2025-26Top 596.13.13.81.21.00.018.833.9%57.1%44.3%43.2%−1.5
Everyone else437.62.23.51.51.00.219.843.3%76.9%56.3%55.1%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 23, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)2 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 11 min
  2. Mar 29, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  3. Mar 4, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 12 min
  4. Mar 1, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  5. Feb 21, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 5 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  6. Feb 19, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 4 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  7. Jan 27, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  8. Jan 25, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 13 min
  9. Jan 4, 2026at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  10. Dec 18, 2025vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 3 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 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, 52 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.