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Jaylin Williams: DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST

Defensive impact · 2025-26 · 65 games

97

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Jaylin Williams
Confidence: lowData through: 2025-26

The question

What kind of player is Jaylin Williams?

The evidence

Jaylin Williams · Defensive impact: 97th percentile (DBPM 2.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)

97 percentilcompared against: 50 percentil (+47) · 452 players with a sample in 2025-26

Jaylin Williams: what moved most is Playmaking

65 percentilcompared against: 50 percentil (+15) · Jaylin Williams, from 2022-23 to 2024-25

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: 19.6 minutes per game across 65 games
  • What sets them apartDefensive impact · 97th percentile

    DBPM 2.7: 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.

  • Scoring38th percentile

    7.2 points per game

  • Playmaking62th percentile

    2.4 assists per game

  • Outside shooting77th percentile

    38.3 % from three · 256 attempts

  • Defensive impact97th percentile

    DBPM 2.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

  • Finishing at the rimno data

    no data

  • Rebounding80th percentile

    5.5 rebounds per game

Strengths

  • Defensive impact97th percentile

    Elite · DBPM 2.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

  • Rebounding80th percentile

    Very high · 5.5 rebounds per game

  • Outside shooting77th percentile

    Very high · 38.3 % from three · 256 attempts

Limitations

Recent change

Scoring: 30th percentile → 38th percentile (+8) · Playmaking: 51th percentile → 62th percentile (+11) · Rebounding: 74th percentile → 80th percentile (+6)

  • 2022-2351th percentile

    49 games · 18.7 minutes per game

    Scoring
    30th percentile
    Playmaking
    51th percentile
    Rebounding
    74th percentile
  • 2023-2448th percentile

    69 games · 13.0 minutes per game

    Scoring
    16th percentile
    Playmaking
    48th percentile
    Rebounding
    50th percentile
  • 2024-2568th percentile

    47 games · 16.7 minutes per game

    Scoring
    29th percentile
    Playmaking
    68th percentile
    Rebounding
    79th percentile
  • 2025-2662th percentile

    65 games · 19.6 minutes per game

    Scoring
    38th percentile
    Playmaking
    62th percentile
    Rebounding
    80th percentile

Context

2025-26 · 65 games · 19.6 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.

From here

Where it comes from

Source

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This answer

2026-10-12

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonBox scores · closed season · its clock is the season
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