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Quentin Grimes vs top defenses

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

Quentin Grimes has averaged 8.4 points and 2.6 rebounds per game in 9 games against top-5 defenses, vs 12.4 points and 3.8 rebounds in 59 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
8.4
points per game · 9 games
Vs everyone else
12.4
points per game · 59 games
Difference
−4.0
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Quentin Grimes per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 598.42.61.61.00.40.323.236.5%76.5%46.6%42.6%−4.0
Everyone else5912.43.83.21.40.90.329.245.9%83.2%58.8%53.5%
2026-27Top 50–––––––––––
Everyone else88.53.32.90.80.80.126.246.7%71.4%59.3%53.3%
2025-26Top 598.42.61.61.00.40.323.236.5%76.5%46.6%42.6%−4.7
Everyone else5113.13.93.31.50.90.329.645.8%85.3%58.8%53.5%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Apr 9, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  2. Apr 6, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  3. Apr 4, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
  4. Apr 3, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 25 min
  5. Mar 12, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  6. Mar 3, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  7. Feb 26, 2026vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 4 reb, 0 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  8. Jan 22, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  9. Dec 28, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 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 (8 games here, 60 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.