Stratmaster wrote: Ibelieve Zach was in the top 80 or 90 last season (depending on how you set qualifiers) as far as TS%. Is that how you are measuring efficiency? That is certainly not league average.
Overall league average has been around 56% TS the past couple years, you can just google "league average shooting efficiency" and there's a bunch of different places to see it. My guess is that, if your stat is correct, the players below him tend to take fewer shots/possessions so they're not pushing up the league average that much. (E.g. Harden used thousands of shot possessions last season so his efficient shooting boosts league average much more than lower efficiency guys on his team like Rivers or Tucker.)
Stratmaster wrote: I do not agree he is most valuable as an ISO creator. If the Bulls had a true creator getting players open shots Lavine would still score 25 and would do it at well over .600 TS%.
Hmm, I don't feel like it's at all controversial to say that Lavine's greatest value is being able to volume create iso/DHO shots, hard to see how that's not clear (it's also not a knock on him). But if you want to say that he could play with pretty good creators like e.g. Westbrook or McCollum and manage to up both his volume and efficiency, cool, it'd be a tough thing to argue about productively anyway. I'd just say making that move means you're shifting his trade value from a #1 option on a weak offense to a fully elite offensive player, and I don't think that's a move most other teams are going to make. They're likely going to expect him to be the type of volume iso/DHO creator he's been for a while and probably going to bet on him as maintaining the same efficiency he's had for the past 5 seasons (he's been around 56-57% TS every season since 2016 besides his injury one).
So I agree that he's probably not going to bring back the type of return that you're expecting, and maybe shouldn't be on the block if your vision for the team includes him as a really useful part of the ongoing rebuild.
