Then, if a Player Has Offensive Talent, He's Carrying His Team Mates

If a player is an offensive star and he has defensive talent around him, then he's the one carrying his team mates. This makes some sense because it goes back to having a harder time measuring defensive value looking for it. But if you have offensive talent around you, then we kind of either acknowledge a player has help, or sometimes it becomes becomes a pajortive where we say, oh, yo, his team is stacked. He's got all these other players. And that can cut in the opposite direction. The lakers had this as well in the late nineties with eddie jones and nick van exel,. An the mavericks had this when Jerry stackhouse