2025-26 Season

DANISS JENKINS

Detroit Pistons | Guard | 6-4

2025-26 Season

DANISS JENKINS

Detroit Pistons | Guard | 6-4 | Yr 1

9.3 PPG

2.3 RPG

3.9 APG

20.2 MPG

-2.3 Impact

Jenkins produces at an below average rate for a 20-minute workload.

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NET IMPACT BREAKDOWN

Every stat, every credit, every cost — per game average

-2.3

Scoring +7.7

Points 9.3 PPG = +5.7

Shot Making above expected FG% = +2.0

Creation +1.1

Creation 3.9 AST/g = +1.1

Turnovers -3.7

Turnovers 1.6/g = -3.7

Defense +0.8

Defense 0.9 STL, 0.2 BLK = +0.8

Hustle & Effort +1.9

Rebounds 2.3 RPG = +1.9

Raw Impact +7.8

Baseline (game-average expected) −10.1

Net Impact

-2.3

47th pctl vs Guards

PBP Credit: Every play is analyzed from play-by-play data. Scorers get difficulty-adjusted credit, assisters get creation value based on the shot opportunity they created, and turnovers are classified by type. Shot difficulty is derived from 1M+ shots across 4 seasons. Full methodology

TEAM COMPARISON

#10

Impact

Creation

Hustle

Defense

of 15 teammates (10+ games, 10+ min)

Jalen Duren +18.5 Cade Cunningham +13.8 Ausar Thompson +5.7 Tobias Harris +5.7 Paul Reed +5.4 Duncan Robinson +2.5 Isaiah Stewart +1.0 Kevin Huerter +0.5 Javonte Green -0.2 Daniss Jenkins -0.9 Ronald Holland II -2.1 Jaden Ivey -2.7 Marcus Sasser -2.7 Chaz Lanier -4.6 Caris LeVert -5.3

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SKILL DNA

Percentile rank vs 245 Guards with 10+ games

Scoring 54th

10.1 PPG

Efficiency 28th

51.3% TS

Playmaking 79th

4.2 APG

Rebounding 37th

2.5 RPG

Defense 87th

+11.2/g

Hustle 62th

+10.2/g

Creation 87th

+4.34/g

Shot Making 53th

+6.80/g

TO Discipline 21th

0.08/min

THE SEASON SO FAR

Daniss Jenkins spent his first twenty games riding a dizzying rollercoaster between electric offensive breakouts and catastrophic shooting slumps. He looked like a legitimate scoring weapon during a massive +15.0 impact performance on 11/10 vs WAS, slicing through the perimeter defense with surgical precision to drop 24 points off the bench. Yet, high raw totals often masked deeper flaws in his floor game. Despite posting 18 points and 12 assists as a starter on 11/12 vs CHI, he actually recorded a -2.2 impact score because his tendency to over-dribble routinely forced the offense into late-clock desperation. The wheels completely fell off a few weeks later on 12/01 vs ATL. Jenkins single-handedly torpedoed the offense with an abysmal shot selection profile, chucking up eight misses from deep to earn a team-worst -17.6 impact mark. To survive in this rotation, he must realize that decisive rim attacks work, but forcing bad perimeter jumpers will quickly banish him back to the bench.

Wild inconsistency defined this dizzying twenty-game stretch for Daniss Jenkins, as he oscillated violently between being an offensive black hole and a lethal bench sparkplug. When his jumper fell, he was utterly devastating. He peaked on 01/04 vs CLE with 25 points and a massive +13.5 impact score by punishing defensive closeouts with a decisive trigger. Yet, high scoring totals did not always translate to winning basketball. During his lone start on 01/21 vs NOP, Jenkins poured in 17 points but still posted a -4.8 impact because errant decision-making in the half-court offense completely undercut his overall value. Conversely, he occasionally found ways to tilt the floor without hunting his own shot. On 01/15 vs PHX, he scored just 5 points but generated a stellar +8.0 impact by pushing the tempo and making lightning-quick decisions to spark a massive momentum shift. Jenkins remains a volatile wild card whose nightly effectiveness hinges entirely on whether he attacks with discipline or settles for contested jumpers.

A brutal mid-season shooting slump eventually gave way to a chaotic transition into the starting lineup for Daniss Jenkins. Early on, his offensive rhythm completely flatlined, hitting rock bottom on 02/21 vs CHI with a catastrophic -15.8 impact score driven by a 1-for-6 shooting nightmare. He repeatedly hijacked possessions with forced drives and heavily contested jumpers, bleeding value for the second unit. Given the keys to the starting offense later in the month, he finally caught fire on 03/23 vs LAL, dropping 30 points and 8 assists to earn a massive +11.7 impact mark through pristine pick-and-roll orchestration. Yet, higher usage also exposed his erratic decision-making. Despite logging 19 points and 10 assists on 03/25 vs ATL, his impact cratered to a brutal -13.9 because aggressive trapping schemes coaxed him into a disastrous string of live-ball turnovers. Jenkins can clearly slice through drop coverage when his jumper falls, but his tendency to hemorrhage possessions makes him a wildly unpredictable floor general.

IMPACT TIMELINE

Game-by-game performance vs average. Green = above average, red = below.

Best Game

24 PTS vs WAS

Nov 11 | +22.7 impact

Worst Game

2 PTS vs IND

Apr 12 | -18.3 impact

PATTERNS

Boom-or-bust player. Jenkins's impact swings wildly relative to his average — some nights dominant, others invisible. Scoring varies by ~8 points per game.

Streaky shooter — only cracks 45% from the field in 40% of games. Efficiency is all over the place night-to-night.

Good defender on his best nights, but it comes and goes. Some games Jenkins locks in defensively, others he gets picked apart.

Tends to go on runs. Longest hot streak: 5 games. Longest cold streak: 12 games.

MATCHUP HISTORY

Based on 76 games with tracking data. Shows who guarded this player on offense and who he guarded on defense, with their shooting stats in those matchups.