Stats from https://www.fantasylabs.com/nba/on-off/
| With both Pascal/Yak | Without both Pascal/Yak | With Pascal, No Yak | With Yak, No Pascal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minutes | 239 | 153 | 128 | 29 |
| Usage Rate | 20.6% | 28.2% | 24.9% | 31.5% |
| Net Rating | -0.2 | -8.7 | +14.3 | -24.0 |
| FG% | 51.2% | 37.7% | 55.2% | 47.1% |
| 2PT% | 57.3% | 43.1% | 56.8% | 43.8% |
| 3PT% | 40.6% | 29.4% | 50.0% | 100.0% |
| TS% | 59.7% | 45.1% | 67.0% | 56.0% |
| Points/Poss | 0.97 | 0.82 | 1.21 | 0.97 |
| AST% | 20.1% | 34.4% | 24.1% | 30.8% |
| FT Rate | 16.3% | 12.9% | 53.4% | 23.5% |
| 3PT Rate | 37.2% | 40.0% | 24.1% | 5.6% |
| Points/36 | 16.5 | 19.0 | 26.8 | 25.7 |
Thoughts?
The big caveat is that minutes with Siakam, Barnes, and not Poeltl tend to be when the other team goes small (or at least doesn’t have a traditional big starting center out there). And yeah, Siakam and Barnes should and do tend to torch those lineups.
I really liked the Barnes/Siakam/Achiuwa/Flynn/GTJ lineup we’ve seen occasionally. Looks like that unit has played a super-small sample-size of 9 minutes together, with five of those minutes coming last night. Net rating of +35, but again, the sample size. Nonetheless, it’s a great lineup to punish teams that can’t bring a mobile rim-protecting C off the bench.