Professional DNA
Marcus Thornton: ROLE PLAYER
Outside shooting · 2016-17 · 33 games
62
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Marcus Thornton?
The evidence
Marcus Thornton · Outside shooting: 62th percentile
Marcus Thornton: 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: 17.4 minutes per game across 33 games
- What sets them apartOutside shooting · 62th percentile
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 413 players with a sample in 2016-17. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring40th percentile
6.6 points per game
- Playmaking42th percentile
1.2 assists per game
- Outside shooting62th percentile
- Defensive impact26th percentile
DBPM -0.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding26th percentile
2.3 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Playmaking42th percentile
Average · 1.2 assists per game
- Scoring40th percentile
Average · 6.6 points per game
- Defensive impact26th percentile
Low · DBPM -0.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Rebounding26th percentile
Low · 2.3 rebounds per game
- Axes without enough sample
Finishing at the rim
Recent change
Scoring: 94th percentile → 40th percentile (-54) · Playmaking: 61th percentile → 42th percentile (-19) · Rebounding: 58th percentile → 26th percentile (-32)
- 2011-1294th percentile
51 games · 34.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 94th percentile
- Playmaking
- 61th percentile
- Rebounding
- 58th percentile
- 2012-1376th percentile
72 games · 24.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 76th percentile
- Playmaking
- 47th percentile
- Rebounding
- 37th percentile
- 2013-1463th percentile
72 games · 24.2 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 63th percentile
- Playmaking
- 42th percentile
- Rebounding
- 41th percentile
- 2014-1551th percentile
48 games · 15.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 51th percentile
- Playmaking
- 23th percentile
- Rebounding
- 16th percentile
- 2015-1662th percentile
61 games · 18.2 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 62th percentile
- Playmaking
- 46th percentile
- Rebounding
- 30th percentile
- 2016-1740th percentile
33 games · 17.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 40th percentile
- Playmaking
- 42th percentile
- Rebounding
- 26th percentile
Context
2016-17 · 33 games · 17.4 minutes per game · Percentile against 413 measured players in 2016-17 · SportiveWorld own data
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What this does not prove
- Percentiles compare inside the NBA. Outside it they do not mean the same thing.
- It portrays the 2016-17 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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2026-10-13
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