This wasn’t much fun to track these past few games, but I have been planning to do one of these for each week of games. Since it’s the beginning of the season, there aren’t many lineups with many minutes together… and most of them are very negative. Next week there might be some takeaways that can be made.
After three games, here are the most played lineups:
- White - LaVine - DeRozan - Williams - Vucevic: 36 min, -16.8 net rating (109.6 O, 126.4 D)
- White - LaVine - DeRozan - Caruso - Vucevic: 19 min, +4.8 net rating (104.8 O, 100 D)
- White - Caruso - DeRozan - Craig - Vucevic: 14 min, +19.0 net rating (125.9 O, 106.9 D)
Yeah, I know. It will take a while, especially because Billy has been testing out different lineups each game. I started doing this around the halfway point last season when there was a lot of complaining about Billy’s rotations, but I figured I’d see what tracking it looks like starting from the beginning.