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Lindy Waters III vs top defenses

SAS · 2025-26 · regular season

Lindy Waters III has averaged 1.5 points and 0.5 assists per game in 6 games against top-5 defenses, vs 2.5 points and 0.5 assists in 28 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
1.5
points per game · 6 games
Vs everyone else
2.5
points per game · 28 games
Difference
−1.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Lindy Waters III per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 561.50.20.50.50.00.03.537.5%–56.3%56.3%−1.0
Everyone else282.50.80.50.70.20.07.836.8%66.7%51.2%50.7%
2025-26Top 561.50.20.50.50.00.03.537.5%–56.3%56.3%−1.0
Everyone else282.50.80.50.70.20.07.836.8%66.7%51.2%50.7%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Mar 8, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 3 min
  2. Mar 5, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 1 min
  3. Jan 28, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 1 min
  4. Jan 13, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 13 min
  5. Dec 25, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 1 min
  6. Dec 23, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 2 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 (0 games here, 34 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 6 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.