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Roughly 40 games in and only 25 lineups have been used 200+ minutes (or 5 minutes per game for season), for less than one per team. NBA teams still not prioritizing managing rotations to generate many bigger sample sizes for lineups that much to allow better lineup level analysis.

GSW starters with Iggy with the best lineup performance per 48 minutes at nearly +20. http://stats.nba.com/leagueLineups.html ... tOrder=DES Indiana 2nd, Houston third, OKC 4th. Portland 6th, LAC 8th. Miami 10th. Spurs do not have any lineups used more than 5 minutes a game. Same as last season. Must not think it is important, right or wrong. Only one lineup used over 2 minutes per game last season. Only 2 lineups used over 3 minutes in last title season. But did they win despite this posture? I can't see how not using your best lineups more can be rationalized, especially when they became more used and more important in the playoffs. 2 teams regularly use lineups over 20 minutes per game= Minny and Portland. Drop the cutoff to 15+ minutes and there are 6 teams including GSW and Indiana. Drop the line to 10 minutes and you still only get 12. $ of the last 6 title winners have had a regular season lineup used 10+ minutes in 20+ games. Every one of these most recent title winners had a 10+ minute per game lineup used over 10 games in the playoffs and with one exception they all contributed 2+ pts per game to their playoff game margin of victory. The exception was Dallas in 2011, arguably the weakest title winner of the period (at least by regular season SRS).

Crow wrote:Every one of these most recent title winners had a 10+ minute per game lineup used over 10 games in the playoffs and with one exception they all contributed 2+ pts per game to their playoff game margin of victory. The exception was Dallas in 2011, arguably the weakest title winner of the period (at least by regular season SRS).

Really? I thought for sure Dallas had 1 ridiculous big minute lineup that killed it in the playoffs. I think it was Kidd-Terry-Marion-Dirk-Chandler

I wondered about that too. I double-checked what I thought I saw but iIn my haste I made some mistakes.

Today I go back and I see that Butler,Caron - Chandler,Tyson - Kidd,Jason - Nowitzki,Dirk - Stevenson,DeShawn was modestly negative. I thought that reading was for the group that included Marion. Sorry. The group that did was indeed very strong in playoffs but it did not make the 10 minute a game criteria (only 7.7) I had queried so I missed it while the lineup with Stevenson did appear (barely over 10 minutes per game). Heavy usage of the Stevenson lineup did not hurt much but the relative usage of the 2 lineups was not really optimized.

Butler,Caron - Chandler,Tyson - Kidd,Jason - Nowitzki,Dirk - Stevenson,DeShawn was great in 2010-11 regular season, very best lineup in league used over 200 minutes. Kidd-Terry-Marion-Nowitzki-Chandler was actually even better in regular season per minute but just shy of 200 minutes. I can understand using both a lot in the playoffs but over time I might have shifted more heavily to the one with Marion based on vastly better playoff results with it. They still won but maybe it was closer than it needed to be.