Hoops

Sydney v Cairns Feb 16

+ /- is usually heavily flawed with liimited mins. Both positively and negatively.

Oh my god!

EFF is the sum of all the good things minus the bad things. That is different to+-.

+- is your team's score minus your oppositions score whilst you are on the court.

So if you play a full 40 minutes and your team wins by 10 pts, then your +- is +10.

However, if you were to lose by 8 pts your +- is -8.

How it is calculated is extremely simple. Drawing conclusions from it about an individual player is the impossible part.

I asked a stats guy once how +/- was calculated: "All the good things you do minus all the bad things you do, divided by a number that's so obscure no-one understands it."

+/- must be the most abused and least understood stat in basketball I reckon

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To the person who talked about -5 above : clearly you didn't watch the game. I just watched Wilson's 3:57 on the court and there is no-way he was even partly responsible for the -5 when he was on the court. In fact, take his 5 pts off & the Kings may well have been -10 for the same period. Additionally 2 of those pts came from free throws taken after he was subbed in.

I suggest you watch the game before commenting, stats don't always indicate how a team or player has played.

You are right, but coaches love the plus-minus stat.

I’m sorry, but how is one player ever solely responsible for the team’s plus/minus?

Yeah good finish to Loughton's career with those last 2 threes. Happy to get the win too, especially considering it never really felt like the Kings got out of 2nd gear.

Onya Loughz, well played mate

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No certainly not Wilson, -5 in three minutes today.

if Randle leaves Adnam or Wilson good enough to take the starting roll or go with a import

If Kings drop this then tomorrow won't matter- it'll be 1 Perth 2 United 3 Sydney. Unless United win by 32 or 33

Fair enough to rest Randle if he is a bit beaten up. Melb unlikely to lose to Perth who don't need to win. Kings with bigger fish to fry than this game.

Nate*

Mate has to retire, so slow, no touch. His size is his only asset but he's to slow to use it.

Is Randle injured?

...and Gaze decides to rest Randle. Brilliant. Only positive is that it will stop him from throwing the Randle/Adnam backcourt out there, at least.

I'm hoping Kings watched the Brisbane and Melbourne games and don't sleep on these guys. Expecting a comfortable win all the same, but who knows this season.

So, Barca was going to bench Joe Ingles for all the ACB games, and he wanted out of the team as a result, as already reported.

But after the Olympics, Barca changed their mind and will let him play in the ACB, and will also give him another chance to make the team's rotation this year.

However, because of this, Nathan Jawai will now be benched for all ACB games instead.