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Stephon Castle vs top defenses

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

Stephon Castle has averaged 18.5 points and 5.8 assists per game in 12 games against top-5 defenses, vs 15.8 points and 7.4 assists in 50 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
18.5
points per game · 12 games
Vs everyone else
15.8
points per game · 50 games
Difference
+2.7
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Stephon Castle per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 51218.54.75.82.11.00.331.450.3%73.3%60.7%58.0%+2.7
Everyone else5015.85.47.41.21.00.229.044.6%74.8%55.4%49.7%
2026-27Top 5219.57.03.04.00.50.030.741.7%50.0%52.9%52.8%+6.7
Everyone else512.85.05.81.81.40.428.340.3%83.3%49.5%47.6%
2025-26Top 51018.34.26.41.71.10.431.552.8%74.4%62.7%59.4%+2.2
Everyone else4516.15.47.61.21.00.229.045.0%74.6%56.0%49.9%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 23, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)15 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  2. Oct 20, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)24 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 5 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  3. Mar 10, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)18 pts, 9 reb, 6 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 34 min
  4. Mar 8, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)23 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 26 min
  5. Mar 5, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 1 reb, 12 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 35 min
  6. Feb 23, 2026at DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 4 reb, 11 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 30 min
  7. Feb 4, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast · 0 3PM · 3 stl, 2 blk · 27 min
  8. Jan 28, 2026at HOU · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 33 min
  9. Jan 13, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 7 reb, 8 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 36 min
  10. Dec 25, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 4 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  11. Dec 23, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)24 pts, 0 reb, 3 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
  12. Dec 13, 2025at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)22 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 2 3PM · 0 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 (7 games here, 55 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 13 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.