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Norman Powell vs top defenses

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

Norman Powell has averaged 22.7 points and 3.4 rebounds per game in 9 games against top-5 defenses, vs 19.9 points and 3.2 rebounds in 43 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
22.7
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
19.9
points per game · 43 games
Difference
+2.8
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Norman Powell per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5922.73.42.33.61.20.130.743.2%83.6%59.9%54.1%+2.8
Everyone else4319.93.22.42.31.10.228.946.2%79.4%59.2%54.0%
2026-27Top 5218.01.52.52.52.00.027.540.9%86.7%62.9%52.3%−3.2
Everyone else521.23.21.42.41.80.030.542.0%76.6%59.1%50.7%
2025-26Top 5724.04.02.33.91.00.131.643.5%82.5%59.3%54.4%+4.3
Everyone else3819.73.22.52.21.00.328.646.7%80.1%59.2%54.5%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 30, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)16 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  2. Oct 26, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)20 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 4 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  3. Mar 23, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  4. Jan 25, 2026at PHX · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 10 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  5. Jan 17, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 5 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  6. Jan 13, 2026vs PHX · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  7. Jan 3, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  8. Jan 1, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)36 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 7 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  9. Nov 29, 2025vs DET · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)28 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 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, 45 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.