When a team takes a transfer onto their roster there is always a bit of an unknown regarding how that player will produce on their new team in a new league. New roles, new chemistry, new styles of play, and new calibers of opponents can make things wildly different from the situation a player came from to the situation they transferred to, and it makes for a guessing game for coaches.
Throughout the last decade as transfers have steadily increased, crescendoing to a tsunami of player movement in the summer of 2021, we have seen more than our fair share of transfers would out tremendously, and we have also seen the production of players dip catastrophically at their next stop.