Professional DNA
Lindy Waters III: ROLE PLAYER
Defensive impact · 2025-26 · 40 games
55
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Lindy Waters III?
The evidence
Lindy Waters III · Defensive impact: 55th percentile (DBPM 0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Lindy Waters III: what moved most is Scoring
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 areROLE PLAYER
- RoleShort rotation: 7.1 minutes per game across 40 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 55th percentile
DBPM 0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 452 players with a sample in 2025-26. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring5th percentile
2.4 points per game
- Playmaking6th percentile
0.5 assists per game
- Outside shooting50th percentile
34.2 % from three · 79 attempts
- Defensive impact55th percentile
DBPM 0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding1th percentile
0.7 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Playmaking6th percentile
Very low · 0.5 assists per game
- Scoring5th percentile
Very low · 2.4 points per game
- Rebounding1th percentile
Very low · 0.7 rebounds per game
- Availability40/82
missed 42 of his team's games in 2025-26
- Axes without enough sample
Finishing at the rim
Recent change
Scoring: 45th percentile → 5th percentile (-40) · Playmaking: 26th percentile → 6th percentile (-20) · Rebounding: 34th percentile → 1th percentile (-33)
- 2021-2245th percentile
25 games · 18.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 45th percentile
- Playmaking
- 26th percentile
- Rebounding
- 34th percentile
- 2022-2325th percentile
41 games · 13.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 25th percentile
- Playmaking
- 13th percentile
- Rebounding
- 16th percentile
- 2023-2414th percentile
38 games · 7.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 14th percentile
- Playmaking
- 10th percentile
- Rebounding
- 5th percentile
- 2024-2523th percentile
52 games · 15.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 23th percentile
- Playmaking
- 21th percentile
- Rebounding
- 20th percentile
- 2025-265th percentile
40 games · 7.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 5th percentile
- Playmaking
- 6th percentile
- Rebounding
- 1th percentile
Context
2025-26 · 40 games · 7.1 minutes per game · Percentile against 452 measured players in 2025-26 · 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 2025-26 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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This answer
2026-10-12
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