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Nick Richards vs top-10 defenses

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

Nick Richards has averaged 5.3 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in 12 games against top-10 defenses, vs 7.0 points and 5.6 rebounds in 21 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
5.3
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
7.0
points per game · 21 games
Difference
−1.7
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Nick Richards per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 10125.34.90.40.30.20.614.254.8%58.3%59.9%58.3%−1.7
Everyone else217.05.60.30.10.30.816.650.9%66.0%56.2%52.3%
2026-27Top 1023.50.50.50.50.00.02.9100.0%–116.7%116.7%+3.5
Everyone else20.00.50.00.00.00.01.6––––
2025-26Top 10105.65.80.40.20.20.716.551.3%58.3%56.5%53.8%−2.1
Everyone else197.76.20.40.20.30.818.250.9%66.0%56.2%52.3%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Oct 23, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (prior season's final)3 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 3 min
  2. Oct 21, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (prior season's final)4 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 3 min
  3. Mar 23, 2026vs HOU · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 8 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 26 min
  4. Mar 18, 2026vs TOR · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
  5. Mar 5, 2026at PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 11 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 29 min
  6. Mar 3, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 13 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  7. Feb 21, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 19 min
  8. Feb 19, 2026vs TOR · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 12 min
  9. Feb 11, 2026at BOS · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 21 min
  10. Dec 10, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 7 min
  11. Dec 5, 2025at HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 8 min
  12. Nov 28, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 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 (4 games here, 29 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 18 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.