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Lauri Markkanen vs bottom-10 defenses

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

Lauri Markkanen has averaged 20.0 points and 5.7 rebounds per game in 7 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 24.9 points and 7.5 rebounds in 24 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
20.0
points per game · 7 games
Vs everyone else
24.9
points per game · 24 games
Difference
−4.9
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Lauri Markkanen per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 10720.05.72.01.70.30.128.446.1%94.4%59.4%52.0%−4.9
Everyone else2424.97.52.02.61.10.633.946.8%88.4%59.9%53.9%
2026-27Bottom 10312.05.02.01.70.30.325.535.7%91.7%54.1%44.6%−9.0
Everyone else321.07.01.73.71.00.732.540.0%85.7%56.1%51.0%
2025-26Bottom 10426.06.32.01.80.30.030.550.0%95.8%61.5%54.7%+0.6
Everyone else2125.47.62.02.41.10.634.147.7%88.6%60.4%54.3%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Oct 26, 2026vs MEM · No. 23 defense (prior season's final)2 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 6 min
  2. Oct 23, 2026vs NOP · No. 24 defense (prior season's final)16 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  3. Oct 21, 2026at MEM · No. 23 defense (prior season's final)18 pts, 9 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 36 min
  4. Feb 11, 2026vs SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  5. Feb 3, 2026at IND · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  6. Dec 4, 2025at BKN · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  7. Nov 28, 2025vs SAC · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)28 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 39 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, 25 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.