NBA TRADE TALK: TDL over

[DanSchwartzgan]

It's interesting DS. An example of the negative numbers, the +/- can come from a short period (one or two bad games with a huge team loss) while being consistently great in multiple games winning all by a small positive margin. What I would like to see is the median distribution around the +/- numbers in general, which could hint more on the consistency behind the overall number. In the illustrated example, the mean number would be positive for two players (related to number of games instead just overall all games), while the overall number would be negative, due to that single or few big losses.  

Let's just look at 1/1 til now.  Below are raw numbers for Brunson, for Luka and the combo in a series of games where the combo total is -5.6.  Yes, it is a small sample size, but we did go 6-1 during this stretch with an average margin of +9.7.

        Team         JB        Luka         Combo
1/2   W (+9)      +0         -4            -20.0
1/3   W (14)      +10       +25          +47.3   
1/5   W (+17)     -2         +2            -32.6         
1/7   W (+24)     +31      DNP           NA
1/9   W (+14)     +3        +26          +19.3
1/12  L (-23)       -19       -24            -35.6
1/14  W (+27)    +12      +12           -6.8

Turns out a couple of good games (Games Luka was really positive) are lifting up the number (to -5.6) rather than one bad game dragging down an otherwise good number.  Yeah, I thought you might have made a good point about the really bad performance in NY, but the Luka/JB minutes were really bad in wins against OKC and Golden State.  Even in last night's game the combo was -6.8.