Professional DNA
Dru Smith: DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST
Defensive impact · 2025-26 · 70 games
99
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Dru Smith?
The evidence
Dru Smith · Defensive impact: 99th percentile (DBPM 3.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Dru Smith: 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 areDEFENSIVE SPECIALIST
- RoleShort rotation: 16.3 minutes per game across 70 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 99th percentile
DBPM 3.4: 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.
- Scoring26th percentile
5.6 points per game
- Playmaking65th percentile
2.6 assists per game
- Outside shooting27th percentile
29.5 % from three · 129 attempts
- Defensive impact99th percentile
DBPM 3.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rim14th percentile
59.8 % · 92 attempts
- Rebounding29th percentile
2.5 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Defensive impact99th percentile
Elite · DBPM 3.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
Limitations
- Rebounding29th percentile
Low · 2.5 rebounds per game
- Outside shooting27th percentile
Low · 29.5 % from three · 129 attempts
- Scoring26th percentile
Low · 5.6 points per game
- Finishing at the rim14th percentile
Very low · 59.8 % · 92 attempts
- Availability70/82
missed 12 of his team's games in 2025-26
Recent change
Scoring: 5th percentile → 26th percentile (+21) · Playmaking: 47th percentile → 65th percentile (+18) · Rebounding: 11th percentile → 29th percentile (+18)
- 2022-235th percentile
15 games · 10.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 5th percentile
- Playmaking
- 47th percentile
- Rebounding
- 11th percentile
- 2023-2420th percentile
9 games · 14.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 20th percentile
- Playmaking
- 48th percentile
- Rebounding
- 13th percentile
- 2024-2532th percentile
14 games · 19.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 32th percentile
- Playmaking
- 44th percentile
- Rebounding
- 29th percentile
- 2025-2626th percentile
70 games · 16.3 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 26th percentile
- Playmaking
- 65th percentile
- Rebounding
- 29th percentile
Context
2025-26 · 70 games · 16.3 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
2026-10-13
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