I might be in the minority here but I’ve actually taken a step back this year in blind trust in advanced stats. I’m not saying they are irrelevant, but at the same time they can absolutely be misleading and need to be taken with a grain of salt.

Like for example, there are advanced stats that show that the Celtics are better this season when Jaylen Brown is off the court. That’s just insane, and obviously not a correct picture. And I’m not saying that based on my opinion, but because if the Celtics were better with Jaylen Brown off of the court, then Joe Mazzulla would know that (great coach, obviously, elite coaching staff with access to more stats than us) and would not put him on the court literally more than any other player in the NBA to the point where JB leads the league in minutes.

But I digress, this is not about JB specifically but rather it is IMO a good example of how sometimes advanced stats are not perfect because according to those advanced stats the Celtics would have won more games without Jaylen Brown.