Brandan Wright: 2014-15 Phoenix Suns Player Grades
By Scott Chasen
Grade: B-
With a player like Wright, a grade like a C+ or B- seems fitting, considering that his role on a team is literally to be an above-average player. He doesn’t need to be flashy and he doesn’t need to be great; he just needs to go out and have a solid performance, and his team will prosper.
And honestly, if I were going to grade Wright for his role of bench/fill-in player, I’d be inclined to give him an A. Because that’s what he is. In the Wright role (pardon the pun, I waited all the way until the end to make it), he can be incredibly valuable for a team, and that doesn’t just apply to the Suns.
This is one of those games where you realize how bad the Rajon Rondo trade was, though. Dallas desperately needs Brandan Wright.
— Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) February 10, 2015
As a whole, there’s really one way that I like to sum up Brandan Wright as a player:
It’s almost like the plus/minus statistic was invented for Brandan Wright.
So many times, you can look at a guy’s plus/minus, especially a star, and it doesn’t tell the story of the game. There are games where a team will win by 10-or-so, and the plus/minus of its best player will be insignificant or even negative, when it’s obvious that if he were not to play, his team wouldn’t have won.
However, that’s not the case with Wright. In Phoenix, Wright almost always had a plus/minus greater than the final spread of the game, and that was often an accurate reflection of how he played. And really, it goes back to his time before Phoenix.
Brandon Wright had the highest plus minus on the mavs the last two seasons and was shooting 75% before he was traded
— Reformed Aragorn (@Un_B_Weavable) January 31, 2015
Throughout his career, Brandan Wright has been the ultimate plus/minus, efficient, little-things-doing guy, and that’s really what his ultimate legacy will be. When it’s all said and done, Wright may be forgotten by many, but truth be told, that’s probably a testament to how cleanly he played, nothing more nothing less.
And that’s what Brandan Wright gives you… exactly what you need…
Nothing more. Nothing less.
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