Wendell Carter Jr. vs top defenses
Wendell Carter Jr. has averaged 8.6 points and 6.9 rebounds per game in 14 games against top-5 defenses, vs 12.5 points and 7.7 rebounds in 56 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).
- Vs top-5 defenses
- 8.6
- points per game · 14 games
- Vs everyone else
- 12.5
- points per game · 56 games
- Difference
- −3.9
- per game, top 5 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 5 | 14 | 8.6 | 6.9 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 27.9 | 43.0% | 72.7% | 53.8% | 47.8% | −3.9 |
| Everyone else | 56 | 12.5 | 7.7 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 30.0 | 53.3% | 80.1% | 63.1% | 58.4% | ||
| 2026-27 | Top 5 | 1 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 35.2 | 33.3% | 50.0% | 45.1% | 41.7% | −6.3 |
| Everyone else | 6 | 13.3 | 8.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 32.0 | 65.1% | 86.4% | 75.9% | 70.9% | ||
| 2025-26 | Top 5 | 13 | 8.8 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 27.3 | 43.7% | 75.0% | 54.5% | 48.3% | −3.6 |
| Everyone else | 50 | 12.4 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 29.7 | 52.1% | 79.2% | 61.8% | 57.2% |
Every game against top-5 defenses
- Nov 1, 2026vs BOS · No. 4 defense (prior season's final)7 pts, 10 reb, 0 ast · 1 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
- Apr 12, 2026at BOS · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)3 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 2 blk · 31 min
- Apr 8, 2026vs MIN · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 20 min
- Apr 6, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)12 pts, 3 reb, 3 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 18 min
- Mar 17, 2026vs OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)11 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast · 0 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
- Mar 14, 2026at MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)15 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
- Mar 1, 2026vs DET · No. 2 defense (that season, games so far)4 pts, 9 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 1 blk · 33 min
- Feb 26, 2026vs HOU · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast · 1 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 27 min
- Feb 3, 2026at OKC · No. 1 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast · 1 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 23 min
- Feb 1, 2026at SAS · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)2 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast · 0 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 19 min
- Dec 22, 2025at GSW · No. 3 defense (that season, games so far)9 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 29 min
- Dec 9, 2025vs MIA · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)14 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 31 min
- Dec 5, 2025vs MIA · No. 4 defense (that season, games so far)7 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 28 min
- Nov 28, 2025at DET · No. 5 defense (that season, games so far)8 pts, 11 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 1 blk · 32 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, 63 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.