Professional DNA
Don Buse: ROLE PLAYER
Outside shooting · 1984-85 · 65 games
97
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Don Buse?
The evidence
Don Buse · Outside shooting: 97th percentile
Don Buse: what moved most is Rebounding
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: 14.4 minutes per game across 65 games
- What sets them apartOutside shooting · 97th percentile
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 285 players with a sample in 1984-85. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring13th percentile
3.4 points per game
- Playmaking75th percentile
3.1 assists per game
- Outside shooting97th percentile
- Defensive impact47th percentile
DBPM -0.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding4th percentile
0.9 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Outside shooting97th percentile
Elite ·
- Playmaking75th percentile
Very high · 3.1 assists per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact47th percentile
Average · DBPM -0.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Scoring13th percentile
Very low · 3.4 points per game
- Rebounding4th percentile
Very low · 0.9 rebounds per game
- Axes without enough sample
Finishing at the rim
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
Recent change
Scoring: 39th percentile → 13th percentile (-26) · Playmaking: 81th percentile → 75th percentile (-6) · Rebounding: 39th percentile → 4th percentile (-35)
- 1979-8039th percentile
81 games · 30.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 39th percentile
- Playmaking
- 81th percentile
- Rebounding
- 39th percentile
- 1980-8111th percentile
58 games · 18.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 24th percentile
- Playmaking
- 56th percentile
- Rebounding
- 11th percentile
- 1981-8237th percentile
82 games · 30.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 53th percentile
- Playmaking
- 90th percentile
- Rebounding
- 37th percentile
- 1982-838th percentile
41 games · 15.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 24th percentile
- Playmaking
- 69th percentile
- Rebounding
- 8th percentile
- 1983-8413th percentile
76 games · 17.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 26th percentile
- Playmaking
- 84th percentile
- Rebounding
- 13th percentile
- 1984-854th percentile
65 games · 14.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 13th percentile
- Playmaking
- 75th percentile
- Rebounding
- 4th percentile
Context
1984-85 · 65 games · 14.4 minutes per game · Percentile against 285 measured players in 1984-85 · 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 1984-85 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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