Professional DNA
Dean Tolson: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1977-78 · 1 games
57
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Dean Tolson?
The evidence
Dean Tolson · Defensive impact: 57th percentile (DBPM 0.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Dean Tolson: 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
- RoleShort rotation: 7.0 minutes per game across 1 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 57th percentile
DBPM 0.1: 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 1977-78. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring0th percentile
0.0 points per game
- Playmaking47th percentile
2.0 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact57th percentile
DBPM 0.1: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding0th percentile
0.0 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Playmaking47th percentile
Average · 2.0 assists per game
- Scoring0th percentile
Very low · 0.0 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: 5th percentile → 0th percentile (-5) · Playmaking: 1th percentile → 47th percentile (+46) · Rebounding: 9th percentile → 0th percentile (-9)
- 1974-751th percentile
19 games · 4.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 5th percentile
- Playmaking
- 1th percentile
- Rebounding
- 9th percentile
- 1976-777th percentile
60 games · 9.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 29th percentile
- Playmaking
- 7th percentile
- Rebounding
- 32th percentile
- 1977-7847th percentile
1 games · 7.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 0th percentile
- Playmaking
- 47th percentile
- Rebounding
- 0th percentile
Context
1977-78 · 1 games · 7.0 minutes per game · Percentile against 257 measured players in 1977-78 · 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 1977-78 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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2026-11-06
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