Professional DNA

Elston Turner: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET

Defensive impact · 1988-89 · 78 games

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Confidence: lowData through: 1988-89

The question

What kind of player is Elston Turner?

The evidence

Elston Turner · Defensive impact: 82th percentile (DBPM 0.9: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)

82 percentilcompared against: 50 percentil (+32) · 315 players with a sample in 1988-89

Elston Turner: what moved most is Rebounding

56 percentilcompared against: 24 percentil (+32) · Elston Turner, from 1983-84 to 1988-89

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: 22.4 minutes per game across 78 games
What sets them apartDefensive impact · 82th percentile
DBPM 0.9: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

The axes, one by one

Every axis with its percentile against 315 players with a sample in 1988-89. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.

Scoring24th percentile
4.3 points per game
Playmaking55th percentile
1.8 assists per game
Outside shootingno data
no data
Defensive impact82th percentile
DBPM 0.9: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
Finishing at the rimno data
no data
Rebounding56th percentile
3.7 rebounds per game

Strengths

Defensive impact82th percentile
Very high · DBPM 0.9: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

Limitations

Scoring24th percentile
Very low · 4.3 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: 10th percentile → 24th percentile (+14) · Playmaking: 36th percentile → 55th percentile (+19) · Rebounding: 24th percentile → 56th percentile (+32)

1983-8424th percentile
47 games · 11.4 minutes per game
Scoring
10th percentile
Playmaking
36th percentile
Rebounding
24th percentile
1984-8539th percentile
81 games · 18.4 minutes per game
Scoring
25th percentile
Playmaking
53th percentile
Rebounding
39th percentile
1985-8642th percentile
73 games · 18.1 minutes per game
Scoring
26th percentile
Playmaking
61th percentile
Rebounding
42th percentile
1986-8715th percentile
70 games · 13.4 minutes per game
Scoring
13th percentile
Playmaking
44th percentile
Rebounding
15th percentile
1987-881th percentile
17 games · 5.8 minutes per game
Scoring
0th percentile
Playmaking
10th percentile
Rebounding
1th percentile
1988-8956th percentile
78 games · 22.4 minutes per game
Scoring
24th percentile
Playmaking
55th percentile
Rebounding
56th percentile

Context

1988-89 · 78 games · 22.4 minutes per game · Percentile against 315 measured players in 1988-89 · 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 1988-89 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.

From here

What if…?

What happened to his team when he did not play

Career atlas

When his game changed, season by season

Where it comes from

Source

not stated

Model input

not stated

Computation

not stated

This answer

2026-11-06

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonBox scores · closed season · its clock is the season

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