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Paolo Banchero vs top-10 defenses

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

Paolo Banchero has averaged 21.5 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in 21 games against top-10 defenses, vs 22.8 points and 7.9 rebounds in 43 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
21.5
points per game · 21 games
Vs everyone else
22.8
points per game · 43 games
Difference
−1.3
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Paolo Banchero per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 102121.58.75.31.00.70.334.446.3%80.9%56.8%49.4%−1.3
Everyone else4322.87.95.51.30.70.635.446.2%75.3%56.7%50.3%
2026-27Top 10114.06.05.00.01.00.026.454.5%50.0%54.9%54.5%−21.0
Everyone else135.07.010.03.01.00.041.283.3%75.0%91.9%95.8%
2025-26Top 102021.98.85.41.00.70.334.846.1%81.7%56.9%49.2%−0.6
Everyone else4222.58.05.41.30.70.635.245.5%75.3%55.9%49.5%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Oct 23, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (prior season's final)14 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  2. Apr 17, 2026vs CHA · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast · 2 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
  3. Apr 12, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 10 reb, 11 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  4. Apr 8, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  5. Apr 6, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  6. Mar 31, 2026vs PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 9 reb, 8 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  7. Mar 29, 2026at TOR · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  8. Mar 17, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)32 pts, 10 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  9. Mar 14, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)27 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 37 min
  10. Mar 7, 2026at MIN · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 15 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  11. Mar 1, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 11 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  12. Feb 26, 2026vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 8 reb, 9 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 37 min
  13. Feb 3, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  14. Feb 1, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 10 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  15. Jan 30, 2026vs TOR · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 9 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 41 min
  16. Jan 28, 2026at MIA · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)31 pts, 12 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  17. Dec 29, 2025at TOR · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 15 reb, 10 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 38 min
  18. Dec 22, 2025at GSW · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 12 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  19. Dec 13, 2025vs NYK · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)25 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  20. Dec 9, 2025vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 7 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  21. Dec 5, 2025vs MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 20 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 (2 games here, 62 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 12 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.