Modern-day basketball has evolved over the past years with all of these analytics and advanced stats that determine a player's effectiveness on the court. Perhaps the most basic of these advanced stats is the plus-minus, which basically tracks the net changes in the score whenever a player is on or off the floor.

Reporters asked San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich his thoughts on the plus-minus. It's safe to say that the legendary mentor isn't a fan, per Jovan Buha of The Athletic.

While Pop may be an old school coach, he is also a smart man and he can adapt to the modern-day game. Still, as much as analytics is gaining steam in the NBA nowadays, the Spurs legend probably still sees the flaws in relying on the plus-minus as a valuable stat.

Proponents of the plus-minus often cite this as a way to determine how a player's presence on the floor impacts the team's output. However, Popovich may have a point in calling it a “hoax.”

While the stat is easy to track and is already a staple on your standard NBA box scores, it doesn't necessarily give us a perfect picture of a player's impact on the court.

Just because an individual player is a big “plus” on the floor doesn't mean he had a major imprint on the game. Maybe it was the other guys around him at that time that made the real impact. A player can score zero points and have a double-digit plus-minus. Someone can also score 50 but have a negative plus-minus.

Nevertheless, the plus-minus is still a good stat to look at, perhaps more so from a 5-man unit perspective rather than individually.