Professional DNA
Jack Givens: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1979-80 · 82 games
43
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Jack Givens?
The evidence
Jack Givens · Defensive impact: 43th percentile (DBPM -0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
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
- RoleShort rotation: 15.3 minutes per game across 82 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 43th percentile
DBPM -0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 253 players with a sample in 1979-80. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring24th percentile
5.7 points per game
- Playmaking8th percentile
0.7 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact43th percentile
DBPM -0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding42th percentile
3.0 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact43th percentile
Average · DBPM -0.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Rebounding42th percentile
Average · 3.0 rebounds per game
- Scoring24th percentile
Very low · 5.7 points per game
- Playmaking8th percentile
Very low · 0.7 assists 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: 41th percentile → 24th percentile (-17) · Playmaking: 19th percentile → 8th percentile (-11) · Rebounding: 41th percentile → 42th percentile (+1)
- 1978-7941th percentile
74 games · 18.2 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 41th percentile
- Playmaking
- 19th percentile
- Rebounding
- 41th percentile
- 1979-8024th percentile
82 games · 15.3 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 24th percentile
- Playmaking
- 8th percentile
- Rebounding
- 42th percentile
Context
1979-80 · 82 games · 15.3 minutes per game · Percentile against 253 measured players in 1979-80 · 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 1979-80 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
2026-11-06
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