LIneup trends around the league

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Spurs:

Early Fox - Wembanyama is a moderate positive but only 6th best of 20 most used and considerably behind Castle pairing and super far behind oustanding to date in modest minutes Harper pairing.

Barnes pair is moderately positive overall but he is in 2 of 3 worst performing of 10 most used Wemby lineups. Castle also in two, Champagnie in all 3. Put them all in a quad and they are still modestly positive but way behind the 5 best quads, 4 of which have Vassell.

Barnes Champagnie Wemby is the clear least positive trio of 20 most used at barely above neutral but 5th most used.

6 of 10 most used Fox lineups are negative, 5 horribly. All had Wemby and yet varied so widely... in short minutes. Fox only 136 minutes so far. Johnson has spread over 32 lineups. An average of only 4 minutes test. Only 1 over 11 minutes. Only 2 of 7 biggest are positive. Barely 1/3rd positive overall. Terrible with most of bench. Use the the few biggest and best with at least 3 starters. Plenty of adjustment probably needed.

Castle good or better overall with almost everyone but some lineups with 2-3 benchare quite bad. Tiny minutes buf monitor and adjust if appropriate.
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First teams to go over 200 lineups are Mavs, and Pacers.

Only teams under 100 are Nuggets, Rockets, Heat and barely Sixers.

Tops are low end performers. Most concentrated generally elite. Thunder at 169. Closer to the least concentrated end.
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Joe Mazzulla was asked about his substitution patterns: “What substitution patterns? Can’t be a pattern if there’s not a pattern.”
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Ingram - Barnes, +0.7 overall on a +7 team. Way better apart: Ingram no Barnes, +10, Barnes no Ingram +19. +4 in starting unit but must be almost as negative in average for the rest of lineups.

Ingram and no other starter, +22 / 100p. Barnes and no other starters, +10. Just one and no other starter less than 1 minute per game. Use them more.

Starters used a bit less than 10 minutes per game. That is alright but other combos are better, including Quickley, Barrett, Barnes no Ingram or Poeltl at +19. Use that more.

A total of 32 combinations used with or without these players. About 2/3rds positive. Just 3 over 50 minutes. I'd concentrate on some more of the best and let go of some of the worst. Not Coach Rajakovic.

They are doing well. But probably could be better. Playoffs are the real test. More concentration expected, needed there.
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Gobert sub-lineup data is very good. But among the most used 5 man lineups, it appears that 2 bench players at same time is often too much.
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More Kings lineup management analysis:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/1994 ... 34161?s=20
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