THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[DanSchwartzgan]

I disagree with your analysis here. 

Gm 17... ON: -8, OFF: -5, ON/OFF: -3
Gm 16... ON: -3, OFF: +2, ON/OFF: -5
Gm 15... ON: +21, OFF: +7, ON/OFF: +14
Gm 14... ON: +0, OFF: -9, ON/OFF: +9
Gm 13... ON: -4, OFF: +6, ON/OFF: -10
Gm 12... ON: N/A, OFF: -8, ON/OFF: +8
Gm 11... ON: N/A, OFF: -7, ON/OFF: +7
Gm 9... ON: -1, OFF: +3, ON/OFF: -4
Gm 8... ON: -6, OFF: +7, ON/OFF: -13
Gm 7... ON: -7, OFF: +10, ON/OFF: -17
Gm 6... ON: +7, OFF: +2, ON/OFF: +5
Gm 5... ON: -7, OFF: +1, ON/OFF: -8
Gm 4... ON: +2, OFF: +2, ON/OFF: +0
Gm 3... ON: +8, OFF: -10, ON/OFF: +18
Gm 2... ON: +22, OFF: +19, ON/OFF: +2
Gm 1... ON: +9, OFF: -11, ON/OFF: +20

The game two blowout was NOT a big positive for his on/off. And when you look through the season there is of course noise, but there is a an arrow that points to Wood's minutes being better than not. AND when you look at each specific game you can see that in most of his negative on/off games it is almost always because he shared the court with someone who was a real drag on the numbers.  Wood has had TWO "bad" games IMO this year, games 7 and 8 (versus UTA and TOR).

There is a huge difference in the way we are approaching this.  I'm just looking at Wood's On-Court contribution and yes, 90% of his positive on-court contribution came in games two and fifteen (the blowouts).  

Your analysis nets in the performance of the players Wood plays instead of when he's in the game.  So, it drags in the performances of McGee, Powell, Maxi and DFS.  McGee and DFS are negative on-court so far this year and Maxi is a net negative On-minus-Off and barely positive On.  If you want to argue Wood is better than the alternatives, your net numbers say that.  If you want to know how the team does when he's on the court, you look at the numbers below (which are the numbers I've used in all of my posts today).

Gm 17... ON: -8
Gm 16... ON: -3
Gm 15... ON: +21
Gm 14... ON: +0
Gm 13... ON: -4
Gm 12... ON: N/A
Gm 11... ON: N/A
Gm 9... ON: -1
Gm 8... ON: -6
Gm 7... ON: -7
Gm 6... ON: +7
Gm 5... ON: -7
Gm 4... ON: +2
Gm 3... ON: +8
Gm 2... ON: +22
Gm 1... ON: +9