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Marcus Smart vs bottom-10 defenses

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

Marcus Smart has averaged 9.1 points and 3.0 assists per game in 17 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 9.6 points and 3.0 assists in 37 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
9.1
points per game · 17 games
Vs everyone else
9.6
points per game · 37 games
Difference
−0.5
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Marcus Smart per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 10179.12.63.01.91.60.428.340.9%81.8%56.3%53.5%−0.5
Everyone else379.63.13.01.61.20.428.439.8%78.6%54.8%50.3%
2026-27Bottom 100–––––––––––
Everyone else511.03.22.82.21.60.024.147.4%88.9%65.5%61.8%
2025-26Bottom 10179.12.63.01.91.60.428.340.9%81.8%56.3%53.5%−0.3
Everyone else329.43.13.01.61.10.429.138.6%77.3%53.2%48.6%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Apr 12, 2026vs UTA · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 2 reb, 10 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  2. Mar 14, 2026vs DEN · No. 22 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 5 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  3. Mar 6, 2026vs IND · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  4. Mar 5, 2026at DEN · No. 22 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  5. Mar 3, 2026vs NOP · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 3 reb, 7 ast · 2 3PM · 4 stl, 3 blk · 30 min
  6. Mar 1, 2026vs SAC · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 5 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  7. Feb 3, 2026at BKN · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  8. Jan 30, 2026at WAS · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  9. Jan 26, 2026at CHI · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  10. Jan 22, 2026at LAC · No. 22 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 0 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  11. Jan 20, 2026at DEN · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  12. Jan 12, 2026at SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)1 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  13. Jan 6, 2026at NOP · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  14. Dec 28, 2025vs SAC · No. 27 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  15. Dec 20, 2025at LAC · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  16. Dec 18, 2025at UTA · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  17. Nov 25, 2025vs LAC · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 20 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 (5 games here, 49 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 13 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.