Nique Clifford vs top defenses
Nique Clifford has averaged 10.0 points and 3.4 rebounds per game in 10 games against top-5 defenses, vs 8.6 points and 3.7 rebounds in 57 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-5 defenses
- 10.0
- points per game · 10 games
- Vs everyone else
- 8.6
- points per game · 57 games
- Difference
- +1.4
- per game, top 5 minus everyone else
Career and by season
| Period | Opponents | Games | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | MIN | FG% | FT% | TS% | eFG% | PTS diff vs others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | Top 5 | 10 | 10.0 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 24.9 | 46.2% | 55.6% | 52.7% | 52.2% | +1.4 |
| Everyone else | 57 | 8.6 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 25.1 | 41.2% | 75.7% | 49.8% | 47.4% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 5 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 33.3% | – | 33.3% | 33.3% | +0.8 |
| Everyone else | 5 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 7.4 | 25.0% | – | 25.0% | 25.0% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 5 | 9 | 10.9 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 27.1 | 46.6% | 55.6% | 53.3% | 52.8% | +1.5 |
| Everyone else | 52 | 9.4 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 26.8 | 41.6% | 75.7% | 50.4% | 48.0% |
Every game against top-5 defenses
- Oct 27, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)2 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 5 min
- Mar 17, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
- Feb 25, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 4 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
- Feb 21, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
- Jan 25, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
- Jan 11, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
- Dec 23, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
- Dec 21, 2025vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 27 min
- Dec 6, 2025at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
- Dec 3, 2025at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 23 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 (6 games here, 61 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 14 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.