Al Jefferson - second best big defender in NBA?

[sirkickyass]

A result that should make you question the metric.

 

[green]

I'd trade Al for Granger.

 

[GVC]

Al always gets tagged with the plus/minus and no doubt he deserves it to a point. But if you look at all the plus/minus stats of our guys, the bench fares much better. Even normally strong plus/minus guys like AK, Deron, and Sap fell off the mark. Part of that was our horrific starts. But I think the missing ingredient is Bell. Anybody who played most of their minutes with Bell got dragged down, and Al played nearly all his minutes with Bell. My guess is if Bell had gotten the Ninja treatment early, all the plus/minus stats would be a little better across the board.

Or you could look at adjusted +/-...

 

[sepanol]

While I don't agree that Jefferson is the 2nd best, or anywhere close, he's not nearly as bad as he's made out to be. Where he's bad is in transition defense. But our transition defense is mostly bad because of how poor our system is. Our guys are always looking for their man on transition, not guarding the court and adjusting once the break has been stopped. AK is really the only guy we have that truly plays the break the right way. He gets back, gets to the middle, and drops anchor. Unfortunately, nobody is on the same page with him. That said, Al needs to run a little harder.

thats the smartest explaanation made for jazz defense, totally agree

 

[billyshelby]

Or you could look at adjusted +/-...

You could. But the guy who wrote the article is using raw +/-. And most of the talking heads only refer to raw +/-. I haven't waded into the rationales, but for some reason adjusted +/- isn't catching on sufficiently to supplant basic +/-.