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Sion James vs bottom-10 defenses

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

Sion James has averaged 5.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game in 22 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 4.7 points and 3.2 rebounds in 53 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
5.4
points per game · 22 games
Vs everyone else
4.7
points per game · 53 games
Difference
+0.7
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Sion James per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 10225.44.32.51.00.50.123.131.6%76.5%46.1%40.8%+0.7
Everyone else534.73.22.00.90.60.220.935.4%89.4%51.3%46.6%
2026-27Bottom 1034.73.32.31.01.00.028.023.8%50.0%32.0%31.0%+0.1
Everyone else54.63.03.41.00.20.022.430.8%100.0%42.8%40.4%
2025-26Bottom 10195.54.52.50.90.40.122.333.3%78.1%49.0%43.0%+0.8
Everyone else484.73.21.90.90.70.320.836.0%88.9%52.4%47.5%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Oct 30, 2026at WAS · No. 30 defense (prior season's final)6 pts, 5 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  2. Oct 26, 2026vs WAS · No. 30 defense (prior season's final)5 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  3. Oct 21, 2026at BKN · No. 26 defense (prior season's final)3 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  4. Apr 3, 2026vs IND · No. 26 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 6 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
  5. Mar 31, 2026at BKN · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  6. Mar 24, 2026vs SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  7. Mar 11, 2026at SAC · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  8. Feb 26, 2026at IND · No. 22 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  9. Feb 24, 2026at CHI · No. 25 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 20 min
  10. Feb 22, 2026at WAS · No. 28 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  11. Feb 2, 2026vs NOP · No. 27 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 5 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  12. Jan 24, 2026vs WAS · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)6 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 16 min
  13. Jan 18, 2026at DEN · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  14. Jan 15, 2026at LAL · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 17 min
  15. Jan 12, 2026at LAC · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
  16. Jan 10, 2026at UTA · No. 30 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 26 min
  17. Jan 8, 2026vs IND · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 22 min
  18. Jan 3, 2026at CHI · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 7 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 30 min
  19. Dec 23, 2025vs WAS · No. 30 defense (that season, games so far)13 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  20. Dec 12, 2025vs CHI · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  21. Dec 1, 2025at BKN · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)5 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 28 min
  22. Nov 28, 2025vs CHI · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 20 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, 67 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.