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Matas Buzelis vs bottom-10 defenses

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

Matas Buzelis has averaged 16.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game in 23 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 16.7 points and 5.8 rebounds in 44 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
16.3
points per game · 23 games
Vs everyone else
16.7
points per game · 44 games
Difference
−0.4
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Matas Buzelis per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 102316.35.62.62.20.71.329.345.4%77.2%58.5%54.3%−0.4
Everyone else4416.75.82.02.40.71.529.246.0%77.9%58.5%55.2%
2026-27Bottom 10214.05.02.51.00.50.526.140.9%88.9%53.9%45.5%+1.4
Everyone else512.64.01.61.40.40.824.639.5%78.6%56.9%47.7%
2025-26Bottom 102116.55.72.62.30.71.429.645.7%75.9%58.9%55.0%−0.7
Everyone else3917.26.12.12.50.71.629.846.6%77.7%58.6%55.8%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Oct 24, 2026vs WAS · No. 30 defense (prior season's final)21 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  2. Oct 23, 2026at MIL · No. 27 defense (prior season's final)7 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 17 min
  3. Apr 1, 2026vs IND · No. 27 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 9 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  4. Mar 28, 2026at MEM · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 3 blk · 39 min
  5. Mar 12, 2026at LAL · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 2 blk · 35 min
  6. Mar 8, 2026at SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 3 blk · 30 min
  7. Mar 1, 2026vs MIL · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 3 blk · 32 min
  8. Feb 9, 2026at BKN · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 4 blk · 26 min
  9. Feb 7, 2026vs DEN · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  10. Feb 3, 2026at MIL · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 5 blk · 36 min
  11. Jan 28, 2026at IND · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 8 reb, 0 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  12. Jan 26, 2026vs LAL · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  13. Jan 20, 2026vs LAC · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 2 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 30 min
  14. Jan 16, 2026at BKN · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 4 blk · 32 min
  15. Jan 14, 2026vs UTA · No. 30 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  16. Jan 3, 2026vs CHA · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  17. Dec 31, 2025vs NOP · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  18. Dec 27, 2025vs MIL · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  19. Dec 14, 2025vs NOP · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  20. Dec 12, 2025at CHA · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 24 min
  21. Dec 5, 2025vs IND · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 12 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  22. Dec 3, 2025vs BKN · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  23. Nov 28, 2025at CHA · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 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, 60 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 17 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.