The Celtics plus/minus numbers are really crazy so far this season. Overall, the team is -24 in total points. We have 5 players with Positive plus/minus; Brown +23, Smart +17, Horford +9, RWill +7, Tatum +3, and Schroder -2 who isn't too bad. Those are all really good when you consider the team is overall -24. Parker is -1 but hasn't played enough to really matter. Bruno Fernando I don't think has played yet.
Then the bad. GWill -16, Richardson -27, Pritchard -31. These guys are all playing pretty regular minutes and aren't that far off of the team average of -24, but it is still losing 3-6 points per game. Our young studs, Langford -37, Nesmith -35. These are really bad especially when you consider it is in relatively limited minutes.
Than the really bad. Somehow, Kanter -15 and JHern -15 managed these in only 5 min. and 8 min. Together in 4 minutes, the team was -12.
I can't distill what is going on here. We have top 5 (Smart, Brown, Tatum, Horford, RWill) +1 (Schroder) who are doing very well. Then we fall off of a cliff. I don't think GWill is that good, nor Kanter and JHern, but Richardson, Pritchard, Langford, and Nesmith are horrible so far and should be much better. That appears to be the problem. Langford is 6-11 FG% overall and 4-6 from 3 but has given up about 18 pts per game in the two games he played. How in the world does that happen?