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Marcus Smart vs top-10 defenses

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

Marcus Smart has averaged 8.9 points and 3.3 rebounds per game in 22 games against top-10 defenses, vs 9.8 points and 2.7 rebounds in 32 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
8.9
points per game · 22 games
Vs everyone else
9.8
points per game · 32 games
Difference
−0.9
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Marcus Smart per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 10228.93.33.11.41.30.329.035.8%85.5%51.8%45.2%−0.9
Everyone else329.82.72.91.91.30.427.943.0%72.5%57.6%55.4%
2026-27Top 10312.34.02.73.01.30.025.638.5%88.9%61.7%55.8%+3.3
Everyone else29.02.03.01.02.00.021.966.7%–75.0%75.0%
2025-26Top 10198.43.23.21.21.30.429.535.3%84.8%49.9%43.2%−1.5
Everyone else309.92.72.92.01.30.428.341.8%72.5%56.8%54.4%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Nov 2, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)8 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  2. Oct 31, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)24 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 7 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  3. Oct 23, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)5 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  4. Apr 10, 2026vs PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 5 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 18 min
  5. Mar 21, 2026at ORL · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  6. Mar 19, 2026at MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 2 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  7. Mar 18, 2026at HOU · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  8. Mar 16, 2026at HOU · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  9. Mar 10, 2026vs MIN · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  10. Mar 8, 2026vs NYK · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  11. Feb 28, 2026at GSW · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  12. Feb 26, 2026at PHX · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  13. Feb 22, 2026vs BOS · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  14. Feb 9, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  15. Feb 7, 2026vs GSW · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 33 min
  16. Jan 24, 2026at DAL · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 32 min
  17. Jan 18, 2026vs TOR · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  18. Jan 7, 2026at SAS · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  19. Jan 4, 2026vs MEM · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
  20. Jan 2, 2026vs MEM · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 34 min
  21. Dec 30, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  22. Dec 25, 2025vs HOU · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 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.