Note: Plus/minus for individual games is a questionable stat in terms of evaluating comprehensive, long term individual player impact. It merely indicates when teams performed well or poorly in a particular matchup and a particular game, which at a minimum speaks to a particular configuration performing or not against another team. This can speak to when a team won the game, which can be interesting and I do find interesting. Did they create a lead with their bench or did they create a lead with their starters?

For example, the numbers from last night suggest Jokic outplayed his minutes against AD, and this was important, and that Yuta and Jordan over-delivered in their role player capacity off the bench.

Nuggets defeat Lakers by 12.

  • Nikola Jokic (+15)
  • Gabe Vincent (-17)
  • Anthony Davis (-17)

Suns defeat Warriors by 4.

  • Yuta Wantabe (+7)
  • Jordan Goodwin (+7)
  • Andrew Wiggins (-22)

https://www.espn.com/nba/scoreboard

  • Mygaffer@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Wiggins had a rough opening night and Kerr closed with Kuminga over Wiggs (although Kuminga didn’t play amazing in the final minutes).

  • last_suvivor13@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Love this for Jordan goodwin, was really active on the defensive end. Hopefully he can get the shot going cause he can be really good for the suns.

    • SomeRandom928Person@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      cause he can be really good for the suns.

      There isn’t a Suns fan out there right now that wouldn’t take a bullet for this kid atm. Vogel trying to find him minutes on this team might be his biggest problem tbh, but he’s definitely earned a spot in the rotation. He had an outstanding preseason too.

      There’s gonna be a whole lot of ‘who the fuck is Jordan Goodwin’ comments in various GDT’s this year lol.

    • Level_Ad_6372@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The bench was trash. Yuta had some big plays down the stretch, but as a whole they were cheeks. The starters were beginning to pull away in the 1st half and the bench let the Warriors right back in it.

  • twotonkatrucks@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Few quick observations about some of these players that stood out to me in the opening night games:

    • Jokic looked unstoppable. It’s truly a marvel how good he is.

    • Yuta was making an impact on both ends of the floor whenever he was out there. Really like this guy’s hustle.

    • Anthony Davis had such a strong start to the game then really really struggled the second half. Denver did a fantastic job containing him in the latter part of the game.