Amazing energy and defense, but man for someone whose shot diet is primarily put backs and wide open 3s his scoring efficiency is doo doo. 51.6 TS% is well below league average. Would love to see that creep up closer to league average over the rest of this season.
The ONLY duo in the NBA that has played atleast 100 minutes together and has a net rating over +30.0 .... Tari Eason/Alperen Sengun (+30.7) Pairing the best defender in the NBA with one of the best offensive players in the NBA seems to work.
This pairing having amazing potential has been obvious to @Ankara1923 and me for at least a year...we both said it many times that these two are "the core of our young core". Others thought/think (?) our core was Jalen Green, nobody else.
Tari (+7.9) and Sengun (+0.8) were the only 2 guys who played over 1700+ minutes on the team for goofy Silas last year that finished the season with a positive +/- per 100 possessions. As bad as that team was, those 2 young guys still played winning basketball despite having the worst coaching in the history of sports. That speaks volumes. Now you look at this year under Ime, Tari (+17.1) and Sengun (+8.5) are leading the team again in +/- per 100 possessions. If winning is the goal, these 2 are the core, in my opinion also.
I have no idea if this is true (it's b/c of Jalen or is it b/c of Tari), that's why it was a joke, but the idea is simple. When a player with a strong defensive presence replaces someone less effective on defense, it can positively impact the team's overall performance, reflected in the +- statistics.
+/- just measures a player's (indirectly approximated) impact, represented by the difference between their team's total scoring versus their opponent's when the player is in the game. It's also a team stat, so when I say "a player's impact", that's only an indirect approximation - a player might be playing like absolute ****, or be contributing nothing, but because the other 4 guys on the court are doing great, your team outscores the opponent...you will have a positive +/- stat. But it has nothing to do with whomever the guy replaces. Basically: For the time Amiga is on the court, does the team outscore the opponent or not, and by how much. Whether you came in for rocketsjudoka or whether rocketsjudoka was on the court with you: +/- doesn't say anything about that.
It represents more than just a player's impact. It depends on the other four players on the court. It also depends on the other five players on the opposing side. This is why sometimes +- can be absolutely misleading. Remember when Holiday had that amazing game with 99 three-pointers? He was the only Rockets player with a negative +- in that game.
Admittedly, I set the minimum minutes so that "it fits", but look (credit to @PWR for finding this for the 2-player lineup): Best 2-player lineup in the NBA by net rating (minimum 100 minutes played together): Best 3-player lineup in the NBA by net rating (minimum 80 minutes played together):
