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+/- isn't pointless and Utah does an extreme amount of mixing of different lineups.
And Rubio is big time in big moments (people always want to forget this). Last year he was 53% from the field, 57% from 3, and 95% from the FT line in the final 5 minutes of games within 5 points.
And the sample size is super small of 10 minutes this year of clutch time, but he's shooting 50%/50% from the field and three again.
+- is pointless without context... saying the team is +5 when a guy is on the court says little about what he actually did and can be misleading. If the team has a net rating of +10 over the season then +5 isn't all that great.
He did the little things last night and it helped. The deflection save was huge. I love Ricky but his limitations have really hurt us this year. I'm just not here for the non-Jazz Ricky fans to shame us after that game last night.
I want him to play well... but I'm not just a Ricky fan... I'm a Jazz fan. I'm not pulling for any individual one player to be awesome... just want to win. So if Ricky ain't doing it then I'm looking elsewhere. I honestly think half the issue is the Ricky Rudy Favs combo... and Favs has been decent (thought he was great last night). It's just not ideal unless Ricky is killing it.