Malachi Smith
01/Where he shoots from
99 shots, drawn one by one: the busiest square foot holds 3, few enough to see every attempt. A filled dot went in; a hollow dot did not.
| Zone | FGM | FGA | PPA | LG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restricted area | 13 | 24 | 1.08 | 1.34 |
| Paint, outside RA | 12 | 25 | 0.96 | 0.89 |
| Mid-range | 3 | 4 | 1.50 | 0.83 |
| Corner three | 4 | 11 | 1.09 | 1.16 |
| Above the break | 16 | 35 | 1.37 | 1.05 |
Smith scored 1.17 points per attempt over 2025-26 regular season; the LG column is the league on the same shots that season. PPA is the column that compares a three to a layup; a field-goal percentage cannot.
Every located field-goal attempt, 2025-26 regular season. 0 of 99 attempts carried no location (the feed stores those at the rim’s own origin) and are not drawn. Free throws are not shots from the floor and are not plotted. This is a record of what happened, not a forecast.
Locations are mapped from the 2013-14 season on, where optical tracking records them at inch precision; earlier seasons are hand-charted at roughly a foot and binning them draws a moire of the charter’s grid, not the player.
02/When his points came
33 of his 124 regulation points came in the first quarter, on 24 attempts at .542. That is a record of one 2025-26 regular season, not a trait: which quarter a scorer lives in is mostly a record of who else was on the floor, and it does not carry from one year to the next.
Quarters are counted from play-by-play, not from the box score, and the table behind them holds regulation only, periods one through four. Overtime points are in the season totals above and in no column here, so the four figures will fall short of the season total for anyone who played an extra period. Each quarter also carries its own games-played count: a player who sat out fourth quarters has a smaller denominator there than in the first.
03/Game log
Regular season
| Date | Opp | Res | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | 3PM | STL | BLK | TOV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12 | @TOR | L | 35.5 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Apr 10 | @MIL | L | 42.7 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9 | IND | L | 40.2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 7 | MIL | W | 37.4 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 5 | WAS | W | 21.2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 3 | ATL | L | 16.8 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31 | CHA | L | 13.7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 29 | SAC | W | 15.9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 25 | @GSW | L | 18.0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23 | @POR | L | 24.3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mar 22 | @SAC | L | 29.3 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 20 | NYK | L | 18.6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 18 | OKC | L | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 16 | POR | L | 18.0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 14 | @PHI | L | 23.2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Games are placed by the league code inside the game id, not by date, so a play-in game is neither a regular season game nor a playoff one here. Field-goal attempts are not carried in this feed’s box score rows, so there is no shooting column below; attempts survive only in the quarter table above, which is built from play-by-play.
04/Career
| Season | GP | MIN/G | PTS | REB | AST | PPG | RPG | APG | 3PM | STL | BLK | TOV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 15 | 23.9 | 124 | 51 | 49 | 8.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 14 |
| Regular season | 15 | 23.9 | 124 | 51 | 49 | 8.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 14 |
The two tables are never added together and neither footer reaches into the other. A career total that quietly included playoff games is the error this separation exists to prevent.
05/Bio
- Position
- F
- Jersey
- #18
- Height
- —
- Weight
- –
- Born
- Dec 6, 1999 (age 26)
- Club
- –
- Regular seasons on file
- 1
A dash is a value the source does not carry, not a zero. Jersey numbers and measurements are missing for part of the league.