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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: DEFENSIVE ANCHOR

Defensive impact · 2025-26 · 51 games

91

percentil

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Confidence: lowData through: 2025-26

The question

What kind of player is Kentavious Caldwell-Pope?

The evidence

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope · Defensive impact: 91th percentile (DBPM 1.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)

91 percentilcompared against: 50 percentil (+41) · 452 players with a sample in 2025-26

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: what moved most is Playmaking

69 percentilcompared against: 58 percentil (+11) · Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, from 2020-21 to 2025-26

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 ANCHOR
  • RoleFull rotation: 21.3 minutes per game across 51 games
  • What sets them apartDefensive impact · 91th percentile

    DBPM 1.6: 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.

  • Scoring47th percentile

    8.4 points per game

  • Playmaking69th percentile

    2.7 assists per game

  • Outside shooting33th percentile

    31.6 % from three · 174 attempts

  • Defensive impact91th percentile

    DBPM 1.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

  • Finishing at the rimno data

    no data

  • Rebounding28th percentile

    2.5 rebounds per game

Strengths

  • Defensive impact91th percentile

    Elite · DBPM 1.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

Limitations

Recent change

Scoring: 58th percentile → 47th percentile (-11) · Playmaking: 57th percentile → 69th percentile (+12) · Rebounding: 32th percentile → 28th percentile (-4)

  • 2020-2157th percentile

    67 games · 28.4 minutes per game

    Scoring
    58th percentile
    Playmaking
    57th percentile
    Rebounding
    32th percentile
  • 2021-2255th percentile

    77 games · 30.2 minutes per game

    Scoring
    75th percentile
    Playmaking
    55th percentile
    Rebounding
    46th percentile
  • 2022-2364th percentile

    76 games · 31.3 minutes per game

    Scoring
    65th percentile
    Playmaking
    64th percentile
    Rebounding
    33th percentile
  • 2023-2464th percentile

    76 games · 31.6 minutes per game

    Scoring
    61th percentile
    Playmaking
    64th percentile
    Rebounding
    30th percentile
  • 2024-2550th percentile

    77 games · 29.6 minutes per game

    Scoring
    49th percentile
    Playmaking
    50th percentile
    Rebounding
    22th percentile
  • 2025-2669th percentile

    51 games · 21.3 minutes per game

    Scoring
    47th percentile
    Playmaking
    69th percentile
    Rebounding
    28th percentile

Context

2025-26 · 51 games · 21.3 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.

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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