Sam Merrill vs top-10 defenses
Sam Merrill has averaged 11.7 points and 2.2 rebounds per game in 19 games against top-10 defenses, vs 11.9 points and 3.1 rebounds in 28 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-10 defenses
- 11.7
- points per game · 19 games
- Vs everyone else
- 11.9
- points per game · 28 games
- Difference
- −0.2
- per game, top 10 minus everyone else
Career and by season
| Period | Opponents | Games | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | MIN | FG% | FT% | TS% | eFG% | PTS diff vs others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | Top 10 | 19 | 11.7 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 26.1 | 42.7% | 92.0% | 61.0% | 58.2% | −0.2 |
| Everyone else | 28 | 11.9 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 26.3 | 47.1% | 78.9% | 63.9% | 62.1% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 10 | 2 | 8.5 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 28.3 | 31.3% | 100.0% | 47.9% | 40.6% | +0.1 |
| Everyone else | 5 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 22.4 | 45.2% | 83.3% | 62.4% | 59.7% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 10 | 17 | 12.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 25.9 | 43.9% | 90.5% | 62.4% | 60.0% | −0.6 |
| Everyone else | 23 | 12.7 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 27.1 | 47.4% | 78.1% | 64.1% | 62.4% |
Every game against top-10 defenses
- Nov 2, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)8 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
- Oct 26, 2026vs MIN · No. 8 defense (prior season's final)9 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
- Apr 8, 2026vs ATL · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 0 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
- Mar 27, 2026vs MIA · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
- Mar 25, 2026vs MIA · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 2 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
- Mar 11, 2026at ORL · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
- Mar 8, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
- Mar 3, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
- Feb 27, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 1 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
- Feb 24, 2026vs NYK · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
- Feb 22, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 6 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
- Jan 30, 2026at PHX · No. 6 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
- Jan 14, 2026at PHI · No. 9 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 10 min
- Jan 10, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 5 3PM · 3 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
- Jan 8, 2026at MIN · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 31 min
- Jan 4, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 5 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
- Dec 31, 2025vs PHX · No. 10 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
- Dec 29, 2025at SAS · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
- Dec 27, 2025at HOU · No. 8 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 25 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 (7 games here, 40 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.