jbk1234 wrote:JonFromVA wrote:toooskies wrote:The fun thing with most of the units that worked really well is that Dean Wade was a prominent part of most of them. Can't really go with what works if you don't have it.
Tristan Thompson should get Morris's opportunities, though. I'm fully out on him. I'm doubling down on two bigs rather than running from it like JBB has been doing lately at the end of games.
It shouldn't be that hard to look at why a unit worked and find a substitute for one guy in that unit. Maybe you take the new guy aside and explain what he needs to provide that the guy he's replacing was giving?
But while statisticians need to worry about sample sizes before drawing conclusions, a head coach doesn't; he should try to see if he can find minutes for those groups in situations they can try to continue to succeed in or build upon it.
fwiw, here's 4 groups that have played really well without Dean:
(off rtg - def rtg from 82games)
Garland-Okoro-LeVert-Niang-E.Mobley (+14)
Mitchell-Okoro-LeVert-Niang-Allen (+36)
PorterJr.-Merrill-LeVert-Niang-Thompson (+53)
Mitchell-Strus-LeVert-Niang-Allen (+14)
Interestingly, Caris and George are in all of them inspite of their 2-man group being only +0.6.
If there's a silver lining, at least JBB used that first lineup as his bench rotation .vs. Memphis.
How many minutes are we even talking about with the +53 five-man group?
Coincidentally, nearly the same 41 minutes they had back when the team was on an 8 game winning streak when TT got busted.