Professional DNA
James Cotton: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1998-99 · 10 games
10
percentil

The question
What kind of player is James Cotton?
The evidence
James Cotton · Defensive impact: 10th percentile (DBPM -1.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
The read
What they are, the role they held and what sets them apart. Every line comes from a figure further down this same page.
- What they arePROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
- RoleShort rotation: 5.9 minutes per game across 10 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 10th percentile
DBPM -1.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 337 players with a sample in 1998-99. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring7th percentile
2.5 points per game
- Playmaking0th percentile
0.0 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact10th percentile
DBPM -1.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding3th percentile
1.0 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact10th percentile
Very low · DBPM -1.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Scoring7th percentile
Very low · 2.5 points per game
- Rebounding3th percentile
Very low · 1.0 rebounds per game
- Playmaking0th percentile
Very low · 0.0 assists per game
- Axes without enough sample
Outside shooting · Finishing at the rim
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
Recent change
Scoring: 11th percentile → 7th percentile (-4) · Playmaking: 0th percentile → 0th percentile (0) · Rebounding: 3th percentile → 3th percentile (0)
- 1997-9811th percentile
9 games · 3.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 11th percentile
- Playmaking
- 0th percentile
- Rebounding
- 3th percentile
- 1998-997th percentile
10 games · 5.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 7th percentile
- Playmaking
- 0th percentile
- Rebounding
- 3th percentile
Context
1998-99 · 10 games · 5.9 minutes per game · Percentile against 337 measured players in 1998-99 · SportiveWorld own data
FactDerivedAssumption
What this does not prove
- Percentiles compare inside the NBA. Outside it they do not mean the same thing.
- It portrays the 1998-99 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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2026-11-06
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