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Zach LaVine vs bottom-10 defenses

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

Zach LaVine has averaged 23.6 points and 3.3 assists per game in 8 games against bottom-10 defenses, vs 18.0 points and 2.2 assists in 22 games against everyone else (2025-26 to 2026-27, regular season).

Vs bottom-10 defenses
23.6
points per game · 8 games
Vs everyone else
18.0
points per game · 22 games
Difference
+5.6
per game, bottom 10 minus everyone else

Career and by season

Zach LaVine per game averages against bottom-10 defenses and everyone else, career and by season
PeriodOpponentsGamesPTSREBAST3PMSTLBLKMINFG%FT%TS%eFG%PTS diff vs others
CareerBottom 10823.62.63.32.81.00.534.549.3%84.6%61.7%57.4%+5.6
Everyone else2218.02.52.22.40.70.329.346.7%86.4%61.0%56.0%
2026-27Bottom 10323.01.73.72.01.70.333.347.1%88.2%59.0%52.9%−0.8
Everyone else423.84.02.33.50.50.333.253.4%79.2%69.3%65.5%
2025-26Bottom 10524.03.23.03.20.60.635.250.6%81.8%63.4%60.0%+7.3
Everyone else1816.72.22.22.20.80.328.444.9%89.1%58.8%53.5%

Every game against bottom-10 defenses

  1. Oct 31, 2026at MEM · No. 23 defense (prior season's final)11 pts, 0 reb, 1 ast · 0 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 21 min
  2. Oct 29, 2026at NOP · No. 24 defense (prior season's final)21 pts, 3 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 3 stl, 1 blk · 39 min
  3. Oct 25, 2026vs MEM · No. 23 defense (prior season's final)37 pts, 2 reb, 5 ast · 3 3PM · 2 stl, 0 blk · 40 min
  4. Feb 1, 2026at WAS · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)35 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast · 4 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 35 min
  5. Jan 16, 2026vs WAS · No. 29 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 3 3PM · 1 stl, 2 blk · 32 min
  6. Jan 12, 2026vs LAL · No. 23 defense (that season, games so far)19 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast · 3 3PM · 0 stl, 1 blk · 32 min
  7. Dec 8, 2025at IND · No. 21 defense (that season, games so far)16 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast · 2 3PM · 1 stl, 0 blk · 38 min
  8. Nov 28, 2025at UTA · No. 24 defense (that season, games so far)34 pts, 2 reb, 6 ast · 4 3PM · 0 stl, 0 blk · 39 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, 23 games ranked on that season's games so far). Games are regular season; games he did not play are not counted. 16 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.