Professional DNA
Gar Heard: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1980-81 · 78 games
93
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Gar Heard?
The evidence
Gar Heard · Defensive impact: 93th percentile (DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Gar Heard: 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: 20.9 minutes per game across 78 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 93th percentile
DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 271 players with a sample in 1980-81. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring21th percentile
4.8 points per game
- Playmaking37th percentile
1.6 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact93th percentile
DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding60th percentile
4.5 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Defensive impact93th percentile
Elite · DBPM 2.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
Limitations
- Playmaking37th percentile
Low · 1.6 assists per game
- Scoring21th percentile
Very low · 4.8 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: 66th percentile → 21th percentile (-45) · Playmaking: 63th percentile → 37th percentile (-26) · Rebounding: 94th percentile → 60th percentile (-34)
- 1975-7666th percentile
86 games · 31.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 66th percentile
- Playmaking
- 63th percentile
- Rebounding
- 94th percentile
- 1976-7757th percentile
46 games · 29.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 57th percentile
- Playmaking
- 51th percentile
- Rebounding
- 94th percentile
- 1977-7839th percentile
80 games · 26.2 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 39th percentile
- Playmaking
- 42th percentile
- Rebounding
- 86th percentile
- 1978-7929th percentile
63 games · 19.3 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 29th percentile
- Playmaking
- 17th percentile
- Rebounding
- 74th percentile
- 1979-8019th percentile
82 games · 17.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 19th percentile
- Playmaking
- 23th percentile
- Rebounding
- 59th percentile
- 1980-8121th percentile
78 games · 20.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 21th percentile
- Playmaking
- 37th percentile
- Rebounding
- 60th percentile
Context
1980-81 · 78 games · 20.9 minutes per game · Percentile against 271 measured players in 1980-81 · 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 1980-81 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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