There’s ample anecdotal evidence that Chicago Bulls point guard Kris Dunn is an elite defender. In a season marked by inconsistencies on the offensive end of the floor, his defense was what earned him the starting job at his position.
Thanks to the mathematical wizardry of Stephen Shea over at BasketballAnalyticsBook.com, we have a new, shiny stat to visualize just how good Dunn is on that side of the ball. Shea developed a statistic called Perimeter Defense Rating which is an approximation of a player’s production as a perimeter defender. Here is how he calculated the numbers.