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Reed Sheppard vs top defenses

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

Reed Sheppard has averaged 13.8 points and 2.9 assists per game in 8 games against top-5 defenses, vs 13.3 points and 3.5 assists in 64 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
13.8
points per game · 8 games
Vs everyone else
13.3
points per game · 64 games
Difference
+0.5
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Reed Sheppard per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5813.82.52.92.11.10.527.341.2%81.8%51.5%49.5%+0.5
Everyone else6413.33.03.52.81.50.726.241.8%83.6%55.3%53.9%
2026-27Top 518.01.01.02.00.00.016.542.9%–57.1%57.1%−2.5
Everyone else410.52.84.82.31.80.023.337.5%100.0%50.8%48.8%
2025-26Top 5714.62.73.12.11.30.628.941.1%81.8%51.1%48.9%+1.1
Everyone else6013.53.13.52.91.50.826.442.0%82.8%55.6%54.2%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Nov 2, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)8 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  2. Mar 8, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)17 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  3. Feb 28, 2026at MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 4 reb, 5 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  4. Feb 7, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 3 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  5. Jan 28, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 26 min
  6. Jan 23, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  7. Jan 20, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)21 pts, 2 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 29 min
  8. Jan 15, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 19 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 (5 games here, 67 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 15 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.