2025-26 Season
TYLER KOLEK
2025-26 Season
TYLER KOLEK
Kolek produces at an poor rate for a 12-minute workload.
Kolek produces at an poor rate for a 12-minute workload.
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
of 14 teammates (10+ games, 10+ min)
Similar Players
Same position, closest production profile this season.
SKILL DNA
Percentile rank vs 246 Guards with 10+ games
THE SEASON SO FAR
Tyler Kolek’s opening stretch of the 2025-26 season was defined by a brutal struggle for survival. He floundered in brief, erratic cameos. During the 10/24 vs BOS matchup, he dished out four assists in 13 minutes, but his utter passivity as a scorer and failure to organize the half-court offense resulted in an abysmal -13.0 Impact score. He briefly found his footing during the 11/22 vs ORL tilt, posting his lone positive mark of the stretch with a +2.3 Impact by blending an efficient eight points with mistake-free floor management. Yet, even when he managed to generate decent offense, the hidden costs of his minutes dragged the team down. Look at the 12/06 vs UTA game, where he tallied seven points in 14 minutes but still bled value to the tune of a -8.8 Impact. Those buckets were essentially empty calories, negated entirely by defensive bleeding and poor point-of-attack resistance.
Tyler Kolek's mid-winter stretch was defined by tantalizing flashes of playmaking brilliance swallowed by long, brutal stretches of unplayable basketball. Given a rare starting nod on 12/24 vs MIN, he stuffed the stat sheet with 20 points, 11 rebounds, and 8 assists. He needed 22 shots to reach those 20 points, but his relentless rebounding from the guard spot drove a stellar +13.7 Impact score. Just one day later on 12/25 vs CLE, Kolek poured in 16 points and dished 9 assists, yet finished with a -0.1 Impact score. Those gaudy offensive numbers were completely negated by hidden costs. Constant defensive lapses allowed Cleveland to easily erase his offensive contributions whenever he stepped on the hardwood. The floor completely caved in during his 12/20 vs PHI appearance, where passive shot selection and a total lack of defensive effort resulted in a catastrophic -26.1 Impact score over just 15 minutes.
This twenty-game stretch was defined by deep-bench irrelevance punctuated by bizarre, erratic flashes of playmaking. Kolek spent most nights stapled to the pine, struggling to find any rhythm during his sporadic garbage-time deployment. On 02/03 vs WAS, he was handed 21 minutes but posted an abysmal -15.9 impact score, as his six assists were completely negated by a disastrous 1-for-7 shooting performance that stalled the offense. He occasionally morphed into a hyper-efficient distributor, notably dishing out eight assists in a mere nine minutes on 03/06 vs DEN. However, his extreme passivity as a scorer in that contest still resulted in a -3.0 impact. His lone genuinely positive outing arrived on 03/22 vs WAS. In just five chaotic minutes, Kolek erupted for 11 points on perfect 4-for-4 shooting, earning a +2.0 impact simply by abandoning his usual hesitation and letting it fly. Ultimately, his inability to consistently threaten the basket kept him buried on the bench.
IMPACT TIMELINE
Game-by-game performance vs average. Green = above average, red = below.
Struggling. Kolek has posted negative impact in 93% of games this season. The production rarely outweighs the cost.
Streaky shooter — only cracks 45% from the field in 38% of games. Efficiency is all over the place night-to-night.
In a rough stretch — 9 straight games with negative impact. Longest cold streak this season: 16 games.
MATCHUP HISTORY ⚠ Updated 46 days ago
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.
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
67 games played
