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Why Zach LaVine is better than Donovan Mitchell (Thread)
Zach LaVine raw offensive stats:
27.0 PPG per 75 possession on +7.2 rTS% - +4.1 O-RAPTOR - 2.3 OBPM - 1.4 ScoreVal - 0.5 PlayVal -
10.5 Box Creation - 4.4 Passer Rating -
+6.2 ORTG - +2.0 rORTG with LaVine-
-4.2 rORTG without LaVine.
27.0 PPG per 75 possession on +7.2 rTS% - +4.1 O-RAPTOR - 2.3 OBPM - 1.4 ScoreVal - 0.5 PlayVal -
10.5 Box Creation - 4.4 Passer Rating -
+6.2 ORTG - +2.0 rORTG with LaVine-
-4.2 rORTG without LaVine.
Donovan Mitchell raw offensive stats:
26.4 PPG per 75 possession on +0.4 rTS% - +4.1 O-RAPTOR - 2.9 OBPM -
0.5 ScoreVal - 1.1 PlayVal -
10.2 Box Creation - 6.3 Passer Rating -
+5.5 ORTG - +8.3 rORTG with Mitchell - +3.0 without Mitchell.
26.4 PPG per 75 possession on +0.4 rTS% - +4.1 O-RAPTOR - 2.9 OBPM -
0.5 ScoreVal - 1.1 PlayVal -
10.2 Box Creation - 6.3 Passer Rating -
+5.5 ORTG - +8.3 rORTG with Mitchell - +3.0 without Mitchell.
Looking at the Raw Offense stats we can see that LaVine scoring is much more valuable than DMitch scoring having a higher volume per 75 and higher efficiency. Playmaking is very small difference between the 2 but DMitch has playmaking but it can also be skewed due to the spacing.
Defensively, there’s no metric that is accurate to support a argument. It is completely film based. Once again whoever wins this doesn’t cover the gap of scoring value whatsoever. DMitch slightly a better defender.
DMitch defense gets hidden by Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert in one and one Mitchell can be a bit sluggish on defense. While LaVine has no one to hide his defense. Like I said both are giving negative value defense and the difference would be small.
