Worm Guts wrote:There's a reason people use plus/minus stats. Obviously Rubio is a terrible shooter but he's also really good at a lot of other things. When you look the plus/minus stats it tells you the positives outweigh the negatives.
Na…, don´t insist... some people just don´t want to get it.
We have many of those here in Spain too. A lot (majority I´d say) saying Sergio Rodríguez or Calderon are much better than Rubio and should start in the NT instead.
The eye test has tendency to focus only on made buckets. A good pass (not necessarily an assist), moving the ball to the right place, taking advantage here and there, avoiding a rival´s pass by being disruptive, forcing a fault, contesting a shot... those things mean much less than a made long two bucket for many basketball fans. They just don´t pay attention to those things. Here in the US you guys are lucky to have such incredible quantity of recorded data and people calculating stats like the Roster Adjusted Plus Minus (awesome one) but, even having that handy, to check, people will prefer to ignore reality and just focus on the surface.
On the other hand, I guess there is no problem with that… As long as everybody enjoys watching the game, that should be it. I enjoy watching Rubio, if somebody prefers OJ Mayo, that´s perfect. Now, how much is worth Ricky? I´d say that somebody is going to offer the max for him, just because he is very young and already playing at a great level. With just a small improvement he is a top 5 PG in the league (defense counts) and that´s worth a max contract at his age. Should the Wolves match? Sure.