If you read any of my video descriptions ever, you know that I am singularly obsessed with just one stat: win-shares. Specifically, win-shares per 48. I don’t know why I have this obsession, but I do, and I can use this stat to write what appear to be insightful insights without actually knowing anything about basketball or the NBA. In fact, I’m about to do that thing right now, in this very description box.
Out of all players with negative win-shares this year, Jabari Parker is the one who has played the most minutes. Trae Young is close. Frank Ntilikina, Allen Crabbe, and Cedi Osman are up there as well in terms of big minutes-getters who actually cost their team wins. But Jabari is maybe the saddest case out of the bunch, given that he was, for exactly one season, a legitimately good player who I honestly believe helped the Bucks win games. Now his three-point shot has failed him and he only looks effective if you squint hard enough at the box-score that you can’t see anything but his point totals.
I will give Jabari credit in this one. After stinking it up for the majority of three quarters, he SHOWED OUT in the fourth, scoring seventeen points, single-handedly keeping the Bulls in striking distance, and causing at least one “panic timeout” from a concerned Erik Spoelstra. I want more of this Jabari and less of the ISO-brick-no-defense Jabari.