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Marcus Sasser vs top defenses

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

Marcus Sasser has averaged 8.9 points and 2.3 assists per game in 8 games against top-5 defenses, vs 4.7 points and 1.9 assists in 37 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
8.9
points per game · 8 games
Vs everyone else
4.7
points per game · 37 games
Difference
+4.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Marcus Sasser per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 588.91.32.31.90.40.117.049.0%75.0%65.1%63.7%+4.2
Everyone else374.71.01.91.00.50.112.238.0%91.7%51.1%49.4%
2026-27Top 549.81.32.81.80.30.019.853.6%100.0%67.5%66.1%+6.5
Everyone else33.31.31.30.70.00.318.033.3%–41.7%41.7%
2025-26Top 548.01.31.82.00.50.314.343.5%66.7%62.4%60.9%+3.1
Everyone else344.91.02.01.10.50.111.738.3%91.7%51.8%50.0%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 30, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)0 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 7 min
  2. Oct 28, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)10 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  3. Oct 24, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)12 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  4. Oct 21, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)17 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  5. Apr 2, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 8 min
  6. Mar 30, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 18 min
  7. Mar 5, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 7 min
  8. Jan 1, 2026vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 24 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, 38 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. TS% = PTS ÷ (2 × (FGA + 0.44 × FTA)); eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA; both from totals for each row. Past results, not a projection.