With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day five:
Chicago Bulls
- Only 45% of Zach LaVine's threes are assisted -- a pull-up three rate that ranks in the 98th percentile for wings.
- Zach LaVine is just 18-of-90 (20%) from the short mid-range, ranking in the seventh percentile for wings.
- Chicago allows 7.2 more points per 100 possessions when Zach LaVine is on the court -- a difference that ranks in the seventh percentile.
- Two players on the Bulls rank in the 90th-plus percentile in added points per 100 transition plays: Zach LaVine (+21.1) and Tomas Satoransky (+15.6).
- Daniel Gafford's 136.9 points per 100 shot attempts is in the 94th percentile for big men.
- Daniel Gafford averages just 3.2 defensive rebounds per 36 minutes.
- Tomas Satoransky's assist-to-usage ratio (1.38) is in the 97th percentile for combo guards.
- Tomas Satoransky leads the Bulls in net rating (+5.0) for players who have seen 1,000-plus minutes.
- Luke Kornet is 41-of-52 (79%) at the rim -- ranking in the 92nd percentile of efficiency for bigs.
- Luke Kornet is just 4-of-24 (17%) on corner threes.
- The Bulls have four players in the 90th percentile or greater for shot frequency at the rim for their respective positions: Chandler Hutchison (62%), Shaquille Harrison (59%), Daniel Gafford (87%), Cristiano Felicio (83%).
- Cristiano Felicio has been fouled on 19.0% of his shot attempts, ranking in the 90th percentile for bigs.
- Cristiano Felicio averages just 0.2 blocks per 36 minutes.
- Chandler Hutchison has been fouled on 18.4% of his shot attempts, ranking in the 100th percentile for forwards.
- Denzel Valentine has made only six made shots at the rim this season. However, he's in the 94th percentile for wings in terms of mid-range accuracy (52%, 43-of-83).
- Denzel Valentine has been fouled on only 1.4% of his shot attempts, ranking in the last percentile for wings.
- Thaddeus Young has the worst net rating (-7.9) of anyone on the Bulls who has seen at least 1,000 minutes.
- Two players on the Bulls have not converted an and-one: Denzel Valentine and Ryan Arcidiacono.
- Two players on the Bulls rank in the 99th percentile for their position in block rate: Daniel Gafford (5.1%) and Shaquille Harrison (2.2%).
- Five players on the Bulls rank in the 90th-plus percentile in steal rate for their position: Kris Dunn (3.4%), Shaquille Harrison (2.9%), Thaddeus Young (2.4%), Denzel Valentine (2.1%) and Chandler Hutchison (2.1%).
- Opposing teams shoot 4.4% fewer attempts at the rim when Kris Dunn is on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 94th percentile.
- Lauri Markkanen adds 2.9 more points per 100 halfcourt plays when he's on the court -- the biggest booster on the Bulls of anyone that's seen 1,000 minutes.
- The Bulls score 20.0 fewer points per 100 transition plays when Coby White is on the court -- a difference that ranks in the fourth percentile.
- Out of all Bulls lineups that have seen 100-plus possessions, the best has a +11.7 net rating. It contains Tomas Satoransky, Shaquille Harrison, Zach LaVine, Lauri Markkanen and Wendell Carter. The worst is -29.5, and it contains Tomas Satoransky, Zach LaVine, Chandler Hutchison, Thaddeus Young and Luke Kornet.
- Chicago's small-ball lineups -- no Cristiano Felicio, Luke Kornet, Daniel Gafford, Wendell Carter -- are -7.0 points per 100 possessions.
- The Bulls' three-point-guard lineups -- Coby White, Kris Dunn and Ryan Arcidacono -- are +5.1 points per 100 possessions.
- The Bulls have a +3.5 spread differential (fifth best in the league) at home against bottom-10 point differential teams. They have the sixth-best spread differential (+4.7) on back-to-backs. And they have the fifth-best spread differential (+4.1) when their opponents are on a back-to-back.
- Chicago forces the most turnovers in the league -- on 18.0% of opponents' possessions.
- Chicago takes the most shots at the rim (40.5% of team field goals).
- Chicago has the worst defensive shot profile in the league (54.9 Location eFG%)