Professional DNA
Sam Smith: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Scoring · 1979-80 · 30 games
44
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Sam Smith?
The evidence
Sam Smith · Scoring: 44th percentile (8.6 points per game)
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: 16.5 minutes per game across 30 games
- What sets them apartScoring · 44th percentile
8.6 points per game
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.
- Scoring44th percentile
8.6 points per game
- Playmaking30th percentile
1.4 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact37th percentile
DBPM -0.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding16th percentile
1.8 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Scoring44th percentile
Average · 8.6 points per game
- Defensive impact37th percentile
Low · DBPM -0.4: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Playmaking30th percentile
Low · 1.4 assists per game
- Rebounding16th percentile
Very low · 1.8 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: 11th percentile → 44th percentile (+33) · Playmaking: 17th percentile → 30th percentile (+13) · Rebounding: 0th percentile → 16th percentile (+16)
- 1978-7911th percentile
16 games · 7.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 11th percentile
- Playmaking
- 17th percentile
- Rebounding
- 0th percentile
- 1979-8044th percentile
30 games · 16.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 44th percentile
- Playmaking
- 30th percentile
- Rebounding
- 16th percentile
Context
1979-80 · 30 games · 16.5 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
2026-11-08
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