2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

[Kammrath]

And when using this as predictive help, do you:

A) give a player who comes from a BETTER team D than Dallas's a potential boost, due to him being whatever he was in a better overall scheme (held to a higher standard) or

B) dock that same player (here, potentially), speculating that those around him won't be able to support him as effectively? 

There are other ways to extrapolate the above question, but hopefully it's clear.

Great question. 

I'll start by saying, I don't know for sure. I have never looked to see what the correlation (if any) is there with these kind of situations. And it probably depends on the player.


Intuitively this is my hunch with LM...

LM was a defensive positive in On/Off on the two CHI teams that had good overall D. LM was a negative in On/Off on the two CHI teams that had bad overall D. One could speculate that LM is the type of player who does not elevate the team D due to his own play...BUT if he has a good scheme and teammates around him, he can be a plus to that good D. And if he is in a poor scheme with poor defensive teammates, he is only going to make things worse.

Just my speculation looking at the numbers and those four Bulls teams.