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Robinson with rest of starters and instead of Towns was a colossal failure in brief regular season test. All of the other 9 of the 10 most used Robinson lineups were good, mostly great. Only one with Towns though. Test 5-10 and settle for the best after that. I think Robinson with Hart is always go...

Quickley's best attribute is his defense.

Thanks for the insights.

The answers were better than I hoped for.

Yes. I was thinking starting 5 vs. 6-10. Intuitively, I first started thinking in terms the worst teams in the NBA and whether their starters are better than the average bench. That made me think the spread could be quite large because even an average team will often be favored by 6-8 points over a ...

Let's assume we have a team with an average starting lineup and an average bench. Now let's say they played against each other. Ballpark, what would the betting spread be?

Still can't sort on Player name or team. Finding guys by position is still difficult and slow. I turn to RAPM & factors of it more and more. For convenience at least. That's a major pain and it should be a relatively easy fix. Sometimes it's double tough because if you try to do by player posit...

RPM method was changed recently to shift weight more toward boxscore. Will want to hear more. Eventually. I hated this idea. I've since stopped looking at the data. To me, the very reason for using various forms of on/off, adjusted on/off, RPM data is to try to capture the positive/negative value o...

I think we have to somehow separate the impact of Doncic on Dallas's offense from the impact of what they've built there. They have a lot of versatile shooters, a ton of space with all that 3 point shooting, and Carlise seems to be use everyone effectively. 1. Prozingis was coming off a very long la...

Thanks. I'll have a look.

I'd like to make one point on this related to Doncic. I watch a ton of Mavs basketball. IMO, he's clearly stealing rebounds from KP and other (as does Westbrook and Harden). However, I think it's possible it's "partially strategic" as opposed to some pure attempt to pad stats. Most teams w...

I watch a ton of Dallas basketball. I'm kind of too lazy to read through this entire thread to see what the consensus is, but here's mind based on observation and a more casual look at the data. 1. He's overrated and overhyped 2. He doesn't play defense well 3. He's a stat stuffer 4. He tries to do...

I watch a ton of Dallas basketball. I'm kind of too lazy to read through this entire thread to see what the consensus is, but here's mind based on observation and a more casual look at the data. 1. He's overrated and overhyped 2. He doesn't play defense well 3. He's a stat stuffer 4. He tries to do ...

Here's something I've been thinking about. I sometimes look at lineup data for clues about how best to fit players together. Has anyone seen evidence that a certain pairing is very good for one of the players, but very bad for the other? For example, imagine a situation where a particular pair nets ...

What specifically is the organizing goal of the Knicks? Playoffs in 2 years? Winning a round in 4-6? Just getting to .400 as soon as possible? Title this half-century? That's the problem. I don't want to rehash history. I'm of the view that a team can rebuild and/or improve via draft, free agency, ...

.... Imagine, player X misses a shot, Stevie Adams or Enes Kanter is standing under the basket, they get the offensive rebound and put it back in. In both cases the team has 2 points, but most boxscore models will say that what Kanter and Adams did was worth more because they get credit for both th...