2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Jason Terry]

Just watching the game reinforces to me that its a worthless stat

Worthless might be too strong a word but yeah it’s generally not useful. Sometimes +/- for a particular guy will stand out for a good reason and may tell you that that player is better/worse than the box score suggests. It’s also useful for comparing high end players apples to apples. Just like with most stats the context of game script and how that player is used is important. It’s difficult to use it to compare bench players and starters because the difference in competition they play against. Maybe the other teams bench is terrible but their starters are elite so the numbers are skewed. Guys that sub into the game every time the other teams star player goes in so they can guard them, it doesn’t factor that in. Just look at last night with Derozan. He and Luka were in the game at the same time mostly. Derozan obviously had a huge impact on them winning but when you’re out there all game against Luka your +/- will take a hit