Professional DNA
Nicolas Batum: DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST
Defensive impact · 2025-26 · 74 games
93
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Nicolas Batum?
The evidence
Nicolas Batum · Defensive impact: 93th percentile (DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Nicolas Batum: what moved most is Playmaking
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: 17.5 minutes per game across 74 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 93th percentile
DBPM 2.0: 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.
- Scoring14th percentile
4.0 points per game
- Playmaking18th percentile
0.9 assists per game
- Outside shooting89th percentile
40.4 % from three · 228 attempts
- Defensive impact93th percentile
DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding29th percentile
2.5 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Defensive impact93th percentile
Elite · DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Outside shooting89th percentile
Very high · 40.4 % from three · 228 attempts
Limitations
- Rebounding29th percentile
Low · 2.5 rebounds per game
- Playmaking18th percentile
Very low · 0.9 assists per game
- Scoring14th percentile
Very low · 4.0 points per game
- Availability74/82
missed 8 of his team's games in 2025-26
- Axes without enough sample
Finishing at the rim
Recent change
Scoring: 47th percentile → 14th percentile (-33) · Playmaking: 64th percentile → 18th percentile (-46) · Rebounding: 68th percentile → 29th percentile (-39)
- 2020-2164th percentile
67 games · 27.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 47th percentile
- Playmaking
- 64th percentile
- Rebounding
- 68th percentile
- 2021-2250th percentile
59 games · 24.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 48th percentile
- Playmaking
- 50th percentile
- Rebounding
- 63th percentile
- 2022-2351th percentile
78 games · 21.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 31th percentile
- Playmaking
- 51th percentile
- Rebounding
- 56th percentile
- 2023-2459th percentile
60 games · 25.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 29th percentile
- Playmaking
- 59th percentile
- Rebounding
- 63th percentile
- 2024-2524th percentile
78 games · 17.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 15th percentile
- Playmaking
- 24th percentile
- Rebounding
- 33th percentile
- 2025-2618th percentile
74 games · 17.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 14th percentile
- Playmaking
- 18th percentile
- Rebounding
- 29th percentile
Context
2025-26 · 74 games · 17.5 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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