2025-26 Season
GUI SANTOS
2025-26 Season
GUI SANTOS
Santos produces at an average rate for a 20-minute workload.
About this model: Net Impact can't measure floor spacing, help defense rotations, or playmaking gravity — so wings and guards are slightly undervalued vs bigs. How Net Impact works
TEAM COMPARISON
of 17 teammates (10+ games, 10+ min)
SKILL DNA
Percentile rank vs 227 Forwards with 10+ games
THE SEASON SO FAR
Gui Santos spent the first quarter of the 2025-26 season trapped in fringe-rotation purgatory, battling erratic minutes and a frequent inability to match the speed of the NBA game. His struggles were glaring during a disastrous stint on 10/24 vs POR, where a passive approach and hesitation on open catches resulted in a brutal -8.4 impact score. Even when handed a rare starting nod on 11/19 vs MIA, he was an active detriment. His shot selection completely abandoned him in that contest, leading to an ugly -3.9 impact score as he forced terrible looks to finish with just 4 points on 1-for-7 shooting. However, he occasionally found ways to drive winning basketball without dominating the box score. On 12/20 vs PHX, Santos generated a massive +6.4 impact score despite tallying a meager 5 points. He maximized that fleeting seven-minute cameo by combining hyper-efficient finishing with stout defensive execution to anchor the second unit.
This stretch of the season was defined by a chaotic metamorphosis, as Gui Santos evolved from a hesitant rotational afterthought into a hyper-efficient two-way terror. His early outings were bizarre but effective, perfectly captured on 12/22 vs ORL where he took zero shots in 10 minutes yet generated a +2.6 impact simply by hustling and making the right reads without the ball. However, increased volume did not always translate to winning basketball. During a start on 01/26 vs MIN, Santos posted a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds, but poor shot selection—including a brutal 1-for-6 from deep—dragged his overall impact down to -4.0. He found his true calling card by becoming an absolute menace on the defensive end. On 01/13 vs POR, his flawless rotations and switchability broke the game wide open, resulting in a staggering +12.6 impact despite scoring just 6 points. By the end of this run, Santos had married his defensive intensity with surgical offensive precision to become an indispensable piece of the starting lineup.
A maddeningly volatile stretch of basketball defined Gui Santos’s midseason run, oscillating wildly between brilliant two-way efficiency and destructive perimeter chucking. When he abandoned the offensive flow to hunt his own shots, the hidden costs were disastrous. Look at the 03/10 vs CHI matchup, where he scored an above-average 17 points but posted a catastrophic -15.0 impact score because forcing contested looks early in the clock actively sabotaged his team's rhythm. Conversely, when Santos committed to the dirty work, his non-scoring value skyrocketed. During the 02/25 vs MEM game, he generated a massive +11.5 impact score on a modest 17 points, completely altering the game through elite defensive positioning and relentless off-ball movement. He finally married high usage with smart decisions on 03/25 vs BKN. Pouring in 31 points on 11-for-16 shooting, Santos earned a +8.0 impact by ruthlessly punishing the defense with impeccable shot selection rather than settling for bad looks.
IMPACT TIMELINE
Game-by-game performance vs average. Green = above average, red = below.
Boom-or-bust player. Santos's impact swings wildly relative to his average — some nights dominant, others invisible. Scoring varies by ~8 points per game.
Middle-of-the-road efficiency — shoots 45%+ from the field in 61% of games. Not automatic, but not a problem either.
Defensive difference-maker. Santos consistently forces tough shots and protects the rim — opponents shoot worse when he's guarding them.
Slight upward trend. First-half impact: -0.6, second-half: +1.2. Modest improvement — possibly settling into a rhythm.
Hot right now — 4 straight games with positive impact. Longest positive run this season: 6 games.
MATCHUP HISTORY
Based on 75 games with tracking data. Shows who guarded this player on offense and who he guarded on defense, with their shooting stats in those matchups.
ON OFFENSE: WHO GUARDED HIM
His shooting stats against each primary defender this season
ON DEFENSE: WHO HE GUARDED
How opponents shot when he was the primary defender. Lower FG% = better defense.
SEASON STATS
GAME LOG
64 games played