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More Lakers. The best on paper rotation by me:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2004 ... 72885?s=20

Best bigger minute lineups without Reaves? 21 minute and 15 minute not reliable strays.

Looking at sublineup data, there is slight small sample hope for Doncic & bench without James or Ayton, and James or James / Vanderbilt without Doncic or Ayton and bench.

6 of 9 most used Bulls lineups are positive but none over 2.5 minutes per game for season. Crossed over 400 total lineups, one of 4 to have done so this early. An average of 12 new lineups every game.

10 of 10 most used pairs negative but 5 of next 10 positive. Some change suggested there.

Timberwolves are only team still below 200 lineups. But 190 lineups after just 35 games is still crazy to me.

A Magic combinations to heighten and suppress:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2008 ... 48712?s=20

J Johnson Daniels Krejci is the by far best bigger minute trio for Johnson and the Hawks in a fairly credible 300+ minute sample.

Completing with Kennard and Gueye makes the best bigger minute 5-man lineup but in only 32 minutes of test. Test that a handful of other combos a lot more.

5 Johnson lineups tested over 100 minutes. Could be way better (or worse). Does it make sense to spread his time out over 150 lineups? Not to me and not close.

Wizards:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2010 ... 86975?s=20

Pelicans:

Pairs between the assumed frontline of future (Murphy, Williamson, Queen) range from -5 pts / 100p to -10.The trio is unsurprisingly -7. Make a quad with Fears and it goes to worse than -10. Add instead Bey and it goes to -13.5. Add both and it goes to almost -15, albeit in less than 100 minutes test.

Is that the principle design concept?

Seriously?

Lineups can improve significantly... sometimes with player development and other good coaching but that is a steep climb from now.

Replace Williamson with Herb Jones and the 5 man goes to +6. Somewhat better shooting, stocks. Fewer fouls given, more received but fewer own ftas. 3pt fg% crashes. Make this the design or not? Something else? Barely 100 minutes so they don't "know enough". How many minutes will these 2 lineups have at trade deadline and end of season?

Substitute Alvardo for Fears and the new lineups goes to +29... in 40 minutes test.

Keep Fears and sub in Missi for Queen and team results go to +20...in 39 minutes.

How many minutes of test will these lineups get? Why are they spending so much time on 436 other lineups? Substitute Bey for Williamson and it goes +16 in 28 minutes. I'd at least triple use if these 5 lineups.

TEST WHAT IS WORKING BEST HARD AND EVALUATE FROM THERE.

What is the argument for not doing this and continuing the lineup management chaos to date?

Hornets:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2018 ... 92644?s=20

Last night, the Cavs used Jarrett Allen, Sam Merrill, and Jaylon Tyson for the exact same 29.5 minutes, and they were +25 in these minutes.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/bo ... 10POR.html

Over here, I don't see that combination among their top 20 most-used 3-man combinations ( > 215 minutes) :
https://www.basketball-reference.com/te ... 6/lineups/

These 3 also don't appear together in the 5- or 4-man combos.
Dean Wade was with them for 26.4 minutes, and they were +32 then; -7 without him.

Of their top 20 (420+ minutes) 2-man combos, Allen+Wade ranks 4th best; Tyson+Wade 6th; Allen+Tyson 8th; Allen+Merrill 11th.

Oh yeah: J Allen had his career-best Game Score (by 11.2), most points ever by 7; season high Reb, Ast, and Blk.

Merrill Tyson Allen is 35th most used Cavs trio for season and is performing better than any with more minutes.

Usage leaped in January to 11th most used even in spite of absences. The last 3 games used, minutes skyrocketed to 23 minutes per game.

This is a case of a team eventually making a good lineup move.

Bulls:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2024 ... 75633?s=20

Bucks:

5 of 7 most used lineups negative on one site, 7 of 9 on another.

386 total lineups. Average lineup use? Around 7 minutes for season.

Biggest 2 lineups at barely 3 minutes per game for season. 7 over 1 min / gm is probably high in a league run on chaos but this is still very scattered. About 70% of total minutes go to dink lineups.

60% of 20 most used pairs negative.

Poor looking lineup management, poor results.

Hornets:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2026 ... 31059?s=20

Lineup concentration dimensions, measures and strategy:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/2027 ... 86783?s=20