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Nikola Vucevic vs top-10 defenses

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

Nikola Vucevic has averaged 9.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game in 21 games against top-10 defenses, vs 15.1 points and 8.0 rebounds in 34 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
9.8
points per game · 21 games
Vs everyone else
15.1
points per game · 34 games
Difference
−5.3
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Nikola Vucevic per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 10219.86.32.40.80.50.523.642.9%81.3%48.6%47.1%−5.3
Everyone else3415.18.03.41.60.60.926.552.1%84.3%60.7%58.7%
2026-27Top 1053.02.81.40.40.00.89.640.0%50.0%47.2%46.7%−0.5
Everyone else23.53.51.00.50.00.59.550.0%–58.3%58.3%
2025-26Top 101611.97.42.70.90.60.427.943.2%85.7%48.7%47.1%−3.9
Everyone else3215.88.33.61.60.60.927.652.2%84.3%60.7%58.7%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Nov 1, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)2 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 7 min
  2. Oct 30, 2026at TOR · No. 7 defense (prior season's final)3 pts, 1 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 6 min
  3. Oct 28, 2026at TOR · No. 7 defense (prior season's final)5 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 16 min
  4. Oct 25, 2026at NYK · No. 6 defense (prior season's final)5 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 15 min
  5. Oct 23, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (prior season's final)0 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 min
  6. Apr 9, 2026at NYK · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  7. Apr 7, 2026vs CHA · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  8. Apr 5, 2026vs TOR · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 13 min
  9. Feb 24, 2026at PHX · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 19 min
  10. Feb 19, 2026at GSW · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 28 min
  11. Feb 6, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 12 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  12. Feb 1, 2026at MIA · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  13. Jan 29, 2026vs MIA · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  14. Jan 22, 2026at MIN · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  15. Jan 13, 2026at HOU · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 37 min
  16. Jan 7, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 16 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  17. Jan 2, 2026vs ORL · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 10 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  18. Dec 29, 2025vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  19. Dec 26, 2025vs PHI · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 29 min
  20. Dec 7, 2025vs GSW · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  21. Dec 1, 2025at ORL · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 11 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 34 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, 48 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 16 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.