A player’s on/off data is not just an analysis tool, it provides a common sense for the player’s influence and value
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Assuming a player is an asset rather than a liability, the more on/off the person is and he can be on the floor, the better.
That’s why the Grizzlies and their fans keep saying, “Please give Jaren Jackson Jr. more time.”
Just a simple request can make it happen.
Jackson has been the Grizzlies’ and arguably the league’s best defender for the 2022-23 season, adding to the red-hot Grizzlies’ best defensive player rankings this month.
But he’s doing it all with little involvement: quality outweighs output, his team wants more, and opponents shake their heads and say “enough is enough.”
In the Grizzlies’ 136-106 victory over the Suns yesterday, Jackson played 704 of the Grizzlies’ 2,074 total minutes, barely more than a third.
That includes 16 games in which he didn’t play at all — the first 14 games of the season while he’s recovering from foot surgery — while averaging just 26.1 minutes in the other 27 games.