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Peyton Watson vs top-10 defenses

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

Peyton Watson has averaged 14.1 points and 4.3 rebounds per game in 13 games against top-10 defenses, vs 16.8 points and 5.0 rebounds in 30 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-10 defenses
14.1
points per game · 13 games
Vs everyone else
16.8
points per game · 30 games
Difference
−2.7
per game, top 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Peyton Watson per game averages against top-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 101314.14.31.51.01.21.232.546.4%83.3%56.8%51.1%−2.7
Everyone else3016.85.02.71.80.81.330.447.5%70.0%57.9%54.6%
2026-27Top 10115.08.01.00.03.04.037.338.5%83.3%48.0%38.5%+5.0
Everyone else510.03.23.40.80.81.426.836.7%76.9%45.7%40.8%
2025-26Top 101214.04.01.61.11.11.032.147.2%83.3%57.7%52.4%−4.2
Everyone else2518.25.42.62.00.81.231.149.1%69.2%59.6%56.7%

Every game against top-10 defenses

  1. Oct 26, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (prior season's final)15 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 4 blk · 37 min
  2. Feb 3, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 3 blk · 38 min
  3. Feb 1, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)29 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 38 min
  4. Jan 27, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 3 blk · 37 min
  5. Dec 31, 2025at TOR · No. 7 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 8 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  6. Dec 29, 2025at MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  7. Dec 27, 2025at ORL · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  8. Dec 25, 2025vs MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 42 min
  9. Dec 23, 2025at DAL · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  10. Dec 15, 2025vs HOU · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 6 min
  11. Dec 1, 2025vs DAL · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 3 blk · 35 min
  12. Nov 29, 2025at PHX · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  13. Nov 28, 2025vs SAS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 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 (6 games here, 37 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 17 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.