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Walter Clayton Jr. vs top defenses

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

Walter Clayton Jr. has averaged 7.1 points and 4.5 assists per game in 13 games against top-5 defenses, vs 8.5 points and 4.0 assists in 49 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs top-5 defenses
7.1
points per game · 13 games
Vs everyone else
8.5
points per game · 49 games
Difference
−1.4
per game, top 5 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Walter Clayton Jr. per game averages against top-5 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerTop 5137.12.64.50.90.40.220.938.5%66.7%47.1%45.1%−1.4
Everyone else498.51.84.01.20.70.320.739.6%90.9%54.9%48.7%
2026-27Top 532.02.03.70.70.30.012.618.2%0.0%25.3%27.3%−9.7
Everyone else311.72.02.02.00.30.313.975.0%100.0%96.2%93.8%
2025-26Top 5108.62.84.71.00.40.323.441.3%76.9%50.2%47.5%+0.3
Everyone else468.31.84.11.20.70.321.137.8%90.4%52.9%46.4%

Every game against top-5 defenses

  1. Oct 30, 2026vs HOU · No. 5 defense (prior season's final)3 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 9 min
  2. Oct 28, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (prior season's final)0 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  3. Oct 24, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (prior season's final)3 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 15 min
  4. Mar 25, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)10 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 22 min
  5. Mar 20, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 3 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
  6. Feb 21, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 4 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 25 min
  7. Jan 22, 2026vs SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 24 min
  8. Jan 19, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 3 reb, 7 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 32 min
  9. Jan 7, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 6 reb, 4 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 27 min
  10. Dec 26, 2025vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)0 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 9 min
  11. Dec 7, 2025vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)20 pts, 2 reb, 9 ast · 2 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
  12. Dec 1, 2025vs HOU · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  13. Nov 30, 2025vs HOU · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 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 (6 games here, 56 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.