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294 lineups. 10 of 11 most used positive.

0-2 against Warriors and Suns. 2 of 3 most likely 1st round opponents.

More later.

5 top 10 factors, 2 mid, 1 bottom 10 (opponent turnovers). #1 on defensive rebounding.

Wembanyama minutes creeping back up, pushed 26 minutes in last game. Averaging 30 for season. Usage right in his normal range (31%). Career best ts% and ft rate. Career low stocks but still strong. 3pt rate almost cut in half from last season. BPM takes another step up to +7.5. (Though this is less than half of Jokic.)

Rotation leader on raw +/- on court and on / off.

Fox, Kornet, Castle, Johnson all chipping in with +2 to +3 BPM. Harper at just +0.2 BPM but great raw +/-.

16th on pace. Common for good teams, good defenses.

Called a young team because of young core pieces but actually only 14th youngest by minutes weighted age. A good blend.

7th on team fta rate. Thunder 20th. 4th on at the rim frequency, Thunder 21st. 16th on 3pta rate, Thunder 17th. Spurs have 2 heightened Moreyball tendencies, Thunder none. And yet dead tied for 5th / 6th best offensive efficiency. Thunder with 10 spot advantage on own turnovers, and FT%, Spurs with 17 spot lead in offensive rebounding. Similar on TS%.

Castle 9th best on raw team +/- on court and on / off. On / off is +0.1.

3 ball is still weak at under 27% from season, slightly worse than last season. 2 for 19 recently.

Up to +0.7 BPM. -0.2 Darko.

Top 16% on offensive Darko and bottom 20% on defensive Darko despite the raw on / off team ratings going the other direction.

Almost all RAPM is -1 or a bit worse but xrapm is +1.

LeBron is the upper outlier at +2.3. LeBron estimates Castle as going from nearly 500th best last season to 30th best. I don't buy that outlier valuation.

FT rate up about 50% from last season. Shooting is slightly less Moreyball.

Wembanyama at slightly less than 70% of games played for career to date. 60% so far this season.

Spurs, pretty good.

But some of the core are not lighting it up on BPM or raw +/-.

Fox is a +2 on BPM but that isn't particularly good for a max contract. Team almost twice as good with him off as on.

Castle just neutral on BPM, also negative on / off. January so far is clear worst of season.

Vassell, slightly negative BPM but positive +/-.Making $27 million and has never been above +0.4 on BPM, with 4 of 6 seasons negative.

Harper and Barnes mildly worse BPM. Near team average +/-.

Sochan and Bryant in the bottom of both measures..

Continue as is or change something? Many want more 3pt shooting. Offensive rebounding and opponent turnovers are just mid and weak.

Spurs, 14th on efg%, 24th on 3pt fg%.

Harper at 47% efg%, 24% 3pt fg%. Castle, 50% and 28%. Fox, 54% and 34%. League averages are 54% and 36%. Other Spurs are better but these guys pull the team average down in a primary responsibility.

Fox:

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No deadline changes. I would have wanted something.

21-2 since Feb. 1. No more than 2 losses in a row all season.

Spurs take game 1 of western conference finals in double OT. Wemby with 41 pts, 24 rebounds.

Will be a contender for foreseeable future.

Spurs, 15 players weigh 210+. 8 play regularly.

Thunder 9 and 4.

Cavs close to Spurs. Knicks close to Thunder.