Last year Jabari was dead last in plus/minus, sort of like Reed this year. He has climbed to the 5th spot. Only 1 point away from the 4th spot. Making a leap? Fred and DB have been fantastic signings by Raf and Ime. Alperen Sengun is inevitable. Amen & Tari are DAWGS. JG is being dragged, but hopefully he gets healthy and does some dragging of his own soon. We need him.
+/- is a useless stat from game to game, even over small stretches. As the minutes start to accumulate is begins to have some value in player evaluation, even if still being flawed. The fact that the other members of the starting lineup have on/off numbers like they do, yet Green is dead last among the top 7 core players is extremely alarming.
As with everything, context is most definitely required. Overall though, I find the good Jabari plus-minus to be a welcome surprise. Perhaps he is having a nice Battier glue effect out there. If the shots start falling, look out.
I think Jabari is +72 over the last 5 games alone. So he was pretty bad to start the year and is starting to come good. Tari is a +22 and Amen a +27 over that same last 5 game span. My 2c is that we need at least 2 or 3 of Amen, Jalen, Dillon, Jabari or Tari to be "on" to supplement the scoring load and provide the point of difference to the Alpy/ Fred bread and butter PnR that we can milk!
