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Luka Doncic vs top defenses

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

Luka Doncic has averaged 32.3 points and 7.5 assists per game in 6 games against top-5 defenses, vs 34.0 points and 8.2 assists in 53 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
32.3
points per game · 6 games
Vs everyone else
34.0
points per game · 53 games
Difference
−1.7
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Luka Doncic per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5632.35.07.54.21.70.335.544.7%82.3%60.9%54.2%−1.7
Everyone else5334.07.88.24.31.60.635.648.4%78.6%62.6%57.8%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else738.38.08.15.91.90.735.749.7%88.7%68.3%62.1%
2025-26Top 5632.35.07.54.21.70.335.544.7%82.3%60.9%54.2%−1.1
Everyone else4633.47.88.24.11.50.635.548.1%76.9%61.7%57.1%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 2, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 4 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  2. Mar 23, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 7 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 39 min
  3. Mar 19, 2026at MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)60 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 9 3PM · 5 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  4. Jan 18, 2026vs TOR · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 2 reb, 7 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  5. Dec 30, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)30 pts, 5 reb, 11 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  6. Nov 28, 2025vs DAL · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 5 reb, 11 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 40 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, 52 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 12 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.