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Nick Smith Jr. vs top-10 defenses

LAL · 2025-26 · regular season

Nick Smith Jr. has averaged 5.6 points and 0.8 assists per game in 9 games against top-10 defenses, vs 6.2 points and 0.7 assists in 15 games against everyone else (2025-26, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
5.6
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
6.2
points per game · 15 games
Difference
−0.6
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Nick Smith Jr. per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 1095.60.70.80.80.30.012.938.3%77.8%49.1%45.7%−0.6
Everyone else156.20.70.71.30.20.111.246.8%66.7%59.4%59.1%
2025-26Top 1095.60.70.80.80.30.012.938.3%77.8%49.1%45.7%−0.6
Everyone else156.20.70.71.30.20.111.246.8%66.7%59.4%59.1%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Apr 10, 2026vs PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 13 min
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Jan 7, 2026at SAS · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
  6. Jan 4, 2026vs MEM · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  7. Jan 2, 2026vs MEM · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
  8. 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
  9. Dec 4, 2025at TOR · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 14 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.