Dirk wrote:Bob8 wrote:Mavrelous wrote:
Check Luka +/- even when playing bad by his standards...
Mavs have no backup PG, Kyrie is the best Maverick this series hands down, but he's not a PG, not against this Clippers defense.
Luka can't sit, Mavs just can't operate offensively without him, Exum has been a huge let down.
Luka has + 76 on/off net rtg. Mavs offensive rtg is
68, when he sits. And all that with him playing bad.
Kidd should have prepare team to play without Luka in those 82 RS games, problem is that playoffs and the way games are officiated just makes the game being totally different than in RS, Exum is lost and players like Josh can't create anything anyway. Similar thing happened to Brunson in first playoffs, where refereeing was a lot more friendly than nowadays.
All of a sudden you are a fan of on/off?
On/off is great and meant for evaluating team's lineups. It shows which lineups works and which doesn't. In playoffs it's clear that lineups without Luka doesn't work. Reason is pretty obvious, Mavs system is Luka. When you put him out others doesn't know or can play differently. So it's only Kyrie's ISOs, which is easily to defend with doubles and blitzing, when Luka is out.
For comparing players from different teams on/off is totally useless, which Luka's + 76 confirms, I'm sure that nobody believes that Luka is the best player in 2024 playoffs.
Although I'm sure your mod friend dr. MJ must be extremely impressed by Luka, because his on/off numbers are historicall. Some basics about +/- should help your understanding the process. Believe me, comparing lineups of the team and comparing individual impact of single players from different teams is not the same thing. First is totally correlated with how lineups play, second is comparing incomparable things.
An example, it's the fact that lineups with Exum doesn't work, you don't even need stats for the that, offense is totally lost visually too. Luka having great +/- doesn't means that he's top player in playoffs. He's not even the best player in Mavs, Kyrie is. But Kyrie has pretty pedestrian +/-, on/off, because lineups, when he plays without Luka doesn't work. And they doesn't work, because there isn't any capable playmaker in it. And we're back on Exum as only backup Pg, who unfortunately can't playmake in this series, because of aggressive defensive pressure on guards by Clippers.
I said that Luka is playing bad, so I don't understand what is your problem, although I see some mods in general board having extremely aggressive attitude towards me. Coincidence? I don't think so. But no problem with me.
Anyway I hope I have helped you to understand a little bit, what is going on with different lineups and why Luka is playing those big minutes although not looking right.