Larry Nance Jr.’s first dozen games of the 2025-26 campaign were defined by a crippling offensive slump that steadily erased his spot in the rotation. The veteran big man hit rock bottom during a disastrous stint on 10/31 vs TOR. He bricked all six of his field goal attempts in 20 minutes, yielding a brutal -16.6 Impact score. Despite earning a spot in the starting lineup two days later on 11/02 vs ATL, his shooting woes only worsened. He clanked eight of his nine shots, generating a dismal -12.1 Impact score because his four assists and four rebounds simply could not offset the offensive void he created on the floor. By the time he suited up on 11/15 vs MEM, Nance was barely an afterthought. He saw just four minutes of action, registering empty zeroes across his stat line and a -16.1 Impact score to cap off a truly miserable stretch of basketball.

Larry Nance Jr. spent this twelve-game stretch fighting a losing battle against irrelevance. Relegated to brief cameos at the end of the rotation, his limitations were glaringly obvious on 11/29 vs ATL, where a scoreless ten minutes yielded an abysmal -13.4 Impact score. When a frontcourt player completely vanishes from the offensive flow and fails to crash the glass, those empty cardio minutes severely bleed team value. He briefly flipped the script on 01/30 vs PHX. In just ten minutes, Nance poured in nine points to generate a stellar +10.4 Impact score, driven by decisive shot selection and a rare made three-pointer. Yet, even when he found the bottom of the net, his overall floor game remained suspect, as seen on 02/04 vs LAC. Despite scoring eight points in just eight minutes, he barely broke even with a +0.1 Impact score because his defensive rotations and rebounding presence were virtually nonexistent.