Professional DNA
Sam Lacey: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1982-83 · 60 games
71
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Sam Lacey?
The evidence
Sam Lacey · Defensive impact: 71th percentile (DBPM 0.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Sam Lacey: what moved most is Playmaking
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: 20.5 minutes per game across 60 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 71th percentile
DBPM 0.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 282 players with a sample in 1982-83. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring19th percentile
4.2 points per game
- Playmaking52th percentile
2.0 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact71th percentile
DBPM 0.7: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding57th percentile
3.9 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Scoring19th percentile
Very low · 4.2 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: 45th percentile → 19th percentile (-26) · Playmaking: 82th percentile → 52th percentile (-30) · Rebounding: 86th percentile → 57th percentile (-29)
- 1977-7882th percentile
77 games · 27.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 45th percentile
- Playmaking
- 82th percentile
- Rebounding
- 86th percentile
- 1978-7993th percentile
82 games · 32.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 57th percentile
- Playmaking
- 93th percentile
- Rebounding
- 90th percentile
- 1979-8095th percentile
81 games · 29.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 50th percentile
- Playmaking
- 95th percentile
- Rebounding
- 88th percentile
- 1980-8190th percentile
82 games · 27.2 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 33th percentile
- Playmaking
- 90th percentile
- Rebounding
- 84th percentile
- 1981-8239th percentile
56 games · 12.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 6th percentile
- Playmaking
- 39th percentile
- Rebounding
- 23th percentile
- 1982-8352th percentile
60 games · 20.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 19th percentile
- Playmaking
- 52th percentile
- Rebounding
- 57th percentile
Context
1982-83 · 60 games · 20.5 minutes per game · Percentile against 282 measured players in 1982-83 · 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 1982-83 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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