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Nick Smith Jr. vs top defenses

LAL · 2025-26 · regular season

Nick Smith Jr. has averaged 5.8 points and 1.0 assists per game in 4 games against top-5 defenses, vs 6.0 points and 0.7 assists in 20 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
5.8
points per game · 4 games
Vs everyone else
6.0
points per game · 20 games
Difference
−0.2
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Nick Smith Jr. per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 545.80.51.00.50.30.012.039.1%75.0%46.4%43.5%−0.2
Everyone else206.00.80.71.20.30.111.844.6%75.0%57.4%56.4%
2025-26Top 545.80.51.00.50.30.012.039.1%75.0%46.4%43.5%−0.2
Everyone else206.00.80.71.20.30.111.844.6%75.0%57.4%56.4%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 7, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 12 min
  2. Feb 10, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  3. Jan 18, 2026vs TOR · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 2 min
  4. Dec 30, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 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 (0 games here, 24 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 6 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.