Javonte Green vs Paolo Banchero
Across 4 meetings and 41 matchup possessions, Green scored 34% below his own season rate against Banchero. He shot 25% from the field in the matchup against 46.2% overall. Treat it as a pattern worth checking on film rather than proof the defender caused it.
The numbers
Each figure sits next to Green's own rate against every defender he faced, which is the only fair comparison for this unit.
Points per matchup possession
34% below his season rate.
Field goal percentage
-21.2 points of field goal percentage, on 8 shots in the matchup.
Possessions here are partial matchup possessions, only the stretches these two were actually matched up, so points per possession runs far below the roughly 1.1 a full team scores. Every figure is meant to be read against the same player's own season rate in the same unit.
How to read this
These are the possessions the two were matched up, not a clean isolation of one defender against one scorer. Help, coverage calls, foul trouble, rest, and shot luck all live inside the same numbers, and 4 meetings is a small sample for any of them.
So a gap here is a reason to pull the film on these possessions, not evidence that the defender caused it. The useful question is what the offense tried in this matchup and what it stopped trying.
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Aggregated from NBA player-matchup tracking for the current season. Possessions are partial matchup possessions and are reported to the nearest whole number here. Figures describe what happened while these two were matched up and do not isolate one player's effect on the other.