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Ryan Nembhard vs top defenses

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

Ryan Nembhard has averaged 7.3 points and 4.8 assists per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 6.8 points and 5.5 assists in 44 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
7.3
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
6.8
points per game · 44 games
Difference
+0.5
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Ryan Nembhard per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5127.31.84.80.90.30.118.244.4%100.0%52.6%51.2%+0.5
Everyone else446.82.55.50.90.50.020.341.6%80.8%49.8%48.1%
2026-27Top 515.01.01.01.00.00.01.766.7%–83.3%83.3%+1.0
Everyone else14.00.01.00.00.00.03.6100.0%100.0%106.4%100.0%
2025-26Top 5117.51.85.20.90.30.119.743.6%100.0%51.4%50.0%+0.6
Everyone else436.92.55.70.90.50.020.741.4%79.2%49.4%47.9%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)5 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 2 min
  2. Apr 10, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 1 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
  3. Mar 6, 2026at BOS · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 4 min
  4. Mar 1, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  5. Feb 5, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 3 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  6. Jan 31, 2026at HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 11 min
  7. Jan 28, 2026vs MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
  8. Dec 25, 2025at GSW · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 1 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  9. Dec 18, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 2 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  10. Dec 6, 2025vs HOU · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 1 reb, 7 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  11. Dec 5, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  12. Dec 3, 2025vs MIA · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 5 reb, 13 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 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 (2 games here, 54 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 6 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.