Trey Lyles is struggling with his shot this season. He’s shooting a career-worst 41.9% from the field and 25% from the three-point line while posting career-lows in most catch-all metrics including box plus-minus, win shares, and value over replacement player. All of this in a year when the Denver Nuggets must make a decision on Lyles’s fit with the team long-term before he becomes a restricted free agent this summer.
But Lyles is an interesting case. There are signs that he has a more valuable skillset than what he has shown this season and there are concerns that those skills might always be diminished when playing alongside Denver’s other skilled front court players.