Professional DNA
Derek Smith: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1990-91 · 2 games
99
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Derek Smith?
The evidence
Derek Smith · Defensive impact: 99th percentile (DBPM 3.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Derek Smith: 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
- RoleShort rotation: 8.0 minutes per game across 2 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 99th percentile
DBPM 3.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 336 players with a sample in 1990-91. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring8th percentile
2.5 points per game
- Playmaking67th percentile
2.5 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact99th percentile
DBPM 3.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding0th percentile
0.0 rebounds per game
Strengths
- Defensive impact99th percentile
Elite · DBPM 3.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
Limitations
- Scoring8th percentile
Very low · 2.5 points per game
- Rebounding0th percentile
Very low · 0.0 rebounds 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: 97th percentile → 8th percentile (-89) · Playmaking: 71th percentile → 67th percentile (-4) · Rebounding: 57th percentile → 0th percentile (-57)
- 1985-8697th percentile
11 games · 30.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 97th percentile
- Playmaking
- 71th percentile
- Rebounding
- 57th percentile
- 1986-8783th percentile
52 games · 31.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 83th percentile
- Playmaking
- 81th percentile
- Rebounding
- 53th percentile
- 1987-8870th percentile
35 games · 25.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 70th percentile
- Playmaking
- 67th percentile
- Rebounding
- 42th percentile
- 1988-8953th percentile
65 games · 19.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 53th percentile
- Playmaking
- 58th percentile
- Rebounding
- 36th percentile
- 1989-9052th percentile
75 games · 18.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 52th percentile
- Playmaking
- 44th percentile
- Rebounding
- 30th percentile
- 1990-918th percentile
2 games · 8.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 8th percentile
- Playmaking
- 67th percentile
- Rebounding
- 0th percentile
Context
1990-91 · 2 games · 8.0 minutes per game · Percentile against 336 measured players in 1990-91 · 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 1990-91 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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