2025-26 Season

TIDJANE SALAÜN

Charlotte Hornets | Forward | 6-10

2025-26 Season

TIDJANE SALAÜN

Charlotte Hornets | Forward | 6-10 | Yr 1

6.2 PPG

4.1 RPG

0.8 APG

15.9 MPG

-0.9 Impact

Salaün produces at an average rate for a 16-minute workload.

NET IMPACT BREAKDOWN

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

-0.9

Scoring +4.0

Points 6.2 PPG × +1.00 = +6.2

Missed 2PT 0.9/g × -0.78 = -0.7

Missed 3PT 1.3/g × -0.87 = -1.1

Missed FT 0.4/g × -1.00 = -0.4

Creation +1.7

Assists 0.8/g × +0.50 = +0.4

Off. Rebounds 1.0/g × +1.26 = +1.3

Turnovers -1.4

Turnovers 0.7/g × -1.95 = -1.4

Defense +0.1

Steals 0.4/g × +2.30 = +0.9

Blocks 0.2/g × +0.90 = +0.2

Def. Rebounds 3.1/g × +0.30 = +0.9

Fouls Committed 2.5/g × -0.75 = -1.9

Hustle & Effort +1.4

Contested Shots 2.7/g × +0.20 = +0.5

Deflections 1.0/g × +0.65 = +0.7

Loose Balls 0.2/g × +0.60 = +0.1

Screen Assists 0.5/g × +0.30 = +0.1

Raw Impact +5.8

Baseline (game-average expected) −6.7

Net Impact

-0.9

38th pctl vs Forwards

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

#11

Impact

#11

Offense

#16

Hustle

#10

Defense

of 17 teammates (10+ games, 10+ min)

Ryan Kalkbrenner +5.3 Moussa Diabaté +4.7 PJ Hall +2.4 Coby White +1.8 Kon Knueppel +1.5 Brandon Miller +1.3 LaMelo Ball +1.3 Miles Bridges +0.6 Collin Sexton +0.5 Pat Connaughton 0.0 Tidjane Salaün -0.7 Grant Williams -0.9 Josh Green -1.3 Liam McNeeley -2.2 KJ Simpson -3.3 Tre Mann -3.8 Sion James -4.1

SKILL DNA

Percentile rank vs 227 Forwards with 10+ games

Scoring 30th

6.7 PPG

Efficiency 71th

59.6% TS

Playmaking 13th

0.8 APG

Rebounding 56th

4.5 RPG

Rim Protection 57th

0.15/min

Hustle 30th

0.09/min

Shot Creation 50th

0% pullup

TO Discipline 57th

0.04/min

THE SEASON SO FAR

Extreme volatility defined Tidjane Salaün’s first twenty games, as the bench wing oscillated wildly between a hyper-efficient sniper and a complete offensive ghost. When his perimeter stroke was working, he was an absolute flamethrower. He generated a monstrous +14.2 impact score on 12/05 vs TOR by drilling five threes for 21 points. Even when his scoring volume vanished, he could still swing a game through sheer discipline. He posted a +3.4 impact on just four points on 10/26 vs WAS by maximizing his floor time, pulling down seven rebounds, and playing strictly within his defined role. Yet, those flashes of brilliant role-playing were constantly interrupted by stretches of total passivity that cratered his overall value. On 01/05 vs OKC, he floated aimlessly on the perimeter without attempting a single field goal, killing the team's half-court spacing and suffering a horrific -12.8 impact score. If he wants to survive in a modern rotation, he has to stop being a spectator on the offensive end.

IMPACT TIMELINE

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

Best Game

14 PTS vs ORL

Dec 27 | +15.3 impact

Worst Game

0 PTS vs OKC

Jan 06 | -13.6 impact

PATTERNS

Boom-or-bust player. Salaün's impact swings wildly relative to his average — some nights dominant, others invisible. Scoring varies by ~5 points per game.

Middle-of-the-road efficiency — shoots 45%+ from the field in 63% of games. Not automatic, but not a problem either.

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

Small downward trend. First-half impact: +0.4, second-half: -2.2. Not alarming yet, but trending the wrong direction.

Tends to go on runs. Longest hot streak: 3 games. Longest cold streak: 6 games.

MATCHUP HISTORY

Based on 44 games with tracking data. Shows who guarded this player on offense and who he guarded on defense, with their shooting stats in those matchups.