Professional DNA
Alvan Adams: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1987-88 · 82 games
82
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Alvan Adams?
The evidence
Alvan Adams · Defensive impact: 82th percentile (DBPM 1.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Alvan Adams: 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 arePROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
- RoleFull rotation: 20.1 minutes per game across 82 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 82th percentile
DBPM 1.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 287 players with a sample in 1987-88. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring43th percentile
7.5 points per game
- Playmaking62th percentile
2.2 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact82th percentile
DBPM 1.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding65th percentile
4.5 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Defensive impact82th percentile
Very high · DBPM 1.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
Limitations
- Scoring43th percentile
Average · 7.5 points per game
- Axes without enough sample
Outside shooting · Finishing at the rim
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
Recent change
Scoring: 76th percentile → 43th percentile (-33) · Playmaking: 87th percentile → 62th percentile (-25) · Rebounding: 84th percentile → 65th percentile (-19)
- 1982-8376th percentile
80 games · 30.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 76th percentile
- Playmaking
- 87th percentile
- Rebounding
- 84th percentile
- 1983-8456th percentile
70 games · 20.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 56th percentile
- Playmaking
- 73th percentile
- Rebounding
- 67th percentile
- 1984-8576th percentile
82 games · 26.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 76th percentile
- Playmaking
- 82th percentile
- Rebounding
- 81th percentile
- 1985-8660th percentile
78 games · 25.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 60th percentile
- Playmaking
- 85th percentile
- Rebounding
- 79th percentile
- 1986-8762th percentile
68 games · 24.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 62th percentile
- Playmaking
- 75th percentile
- Rebounding
- 72th percentile
- 1987-8843th percentile
82 games · 20.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 43th percentile
- Playmaking
- 62th percentile
- Rebounding
- 65th percentile
Context
1987-88 · 82 games · 20.1 minutes per game · Percentile against 287 measured players in 1987-88 · 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 1987-88 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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2026-11-06
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