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Marvin Bagley III vs top defenses

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

Marvin Bagley III has averaged 6.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game in 5 games against top-5 defenses, vs 11.0 points and 6.4 rebounds in 47 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
6.4
points per game · 5 games
Vs everyone else
11.0
points per game · 47 games
Difference
−4.6
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Marvin Bagley III per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 556.44.81.20.20.21.015.850.0%42.9%51.5%51.8%−4.6
Everyone else4711.06.41.30.40.40.720.761.7%66.7%66.2%64.7%
2026-27Top 512.03.01.00.00.00.011.033.3%–33.3%33.3%−3.2
Everyone else55.24.00.20.00.40.612.352.9%66.7%58.3%52.9%
2025-26Top 547.55.31.30.30.31.317.052.0%42.9%53.4%54.0%−4.2
Everyone else4211.76.71.50.50.40.721.762.1%66.7%66.7%65.3%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)2 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 11 min
  2. Apr 10, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 8 min
  3. Feb 7, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 12 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 4 blk · 24 min
  4. Jan 4, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 14 min
  5. Dec 26, 2025vs TOR · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 22 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 (6 games here, 46 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 14 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.