Obviously it is still small sample size but the starting lineup got 117 offensive rating, 89.5 defensive rating, 27.5 net rating in 76 mins while they are trying to figure build some chemistry and role’s together.
But i think the clippers might figured how to get away with tucker mins. also it is small sample size but our bench unit, Russ-Norm-Tucker-PG-Theis they have 136 offensive rating, 104 defensive rating and 32 net rating in 32 mins. Theis is clearly helping a lot in that lineup with stretching the floor for Tucker and Russ, because once you take Theis out the lineup and insert Zu, the offensive rating drops to 105 offensive, the defensive rating get worse at 128.
I want address the elephant in the room, can harden and russ play together? Well Russ-Harden-PG-Kawhi-Zu got 87 offensive rating, in fact when harden and Russ shares the floor together in any lineup they have 98 offensive rating in 127 mins
and 44% is still acceptable from PG when he shares the floor with harden because he is also sharing the floor with Kawhi. so the ball is getting shared by all 3 of them but when he is not playing with harden, it is mostly him with off the bench unit and he is first option and he has better rhythm due to better usage rate % but again we are not playing for one specific player, we’re playing for the best ceiling for us to contend which it takes everyone on the team to play better not just PG