Professional DNA
Phil Hicks: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1978-79 · 20 games
31
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Phil Hicks?
The evidence
Phil Hicks · Defensive impact: 31th percentile (DBPM -0.6: 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: 6.4 minutes per game across 20 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 31th percentile
DBPM -0.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 257 players with a sample in 1978-79. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring2th percentile
2.0 points per game
- Playmaking3th percentile
0.4 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact31th percentile
DBPM -0.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding11th percentile
1.4 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact31th percentile
Low · DBPM -0.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Rebounding11th percentile
Very low · 1.4 rebounds per game
- Playmaking3th percentile
Very low · 0.4 assists per game
- Scoring2th percentile
Very low · 2.0 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: 4th percentile → 2th percentile (-2) · Playmaking: 9th percentile → 3th percentile (-6) · Rebounding: 19th percentile → 11th percentile (-8)
- 1976-7719th percentile
37 games · 7.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 4th percentile
- Playmaking
- 9th percentile
- Rebounding
- 19th percentile
- 1978-7911th percentile
20 games · 6.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 2th percentile
- Playmaking
- 3th percentile
- Rebounding
- 11th percentile
Context
1978-79 · 20 games · 6.4 minutes per game · Percentile against 257 measured players in 1978-79 · 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 1978-79 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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