This is actually more coming from the next 3 guys rather than the stars. After a manual adjustment for Ja’s suspension (assuming it’s a one-off thing) the model has him pretty similar to Zion. The difference is that in total it likes Dejounte Murray / McCollum / Trey Murphy / Brandon Ingram better than Desmond Bane / Jaren Jackson / Santi Almada / John Konchar.
It’s not perfect, but likely the difference is coming from those last couple starters and first guys off the bench. I think Luke Kennard may be more valuable than his VORP shows.
The only other player I manually adjusted for suspension was Miles Bridges and he only missed 10 games so was a much smaller one. Let me know if there’s anyone else I should also consider adjusting due to suspension?
This is actually more coming from the next 3 guys rather than the stars. After a manual adjustment for Ja’s suspension (assuming it’s a one-off thing) the model has him pretty similar to Zion. The difference is that in total it likes Dejounte Murray / McCollum / Trey Murphy / Brandon Ingram better than Desmond Bane / Jaren Jackson / Santi Almada / John Konchar.
It’s not perfect, but likely the difference is coming from those last couple starters and first guys off the bench. I think Luke Kennard may be more valuable than his VORP shows.
The only other player I manually adjusted for suspension was Miles Bridges and he only missed 10 games so was a much smaller one. Let me know if there’s anyone else I should also consider adjusting due to suspension?