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Starters had a +47.1 NetRtg in 15min last night, so the good news is that that group is still lighting shit up. +39 on the year, which would be 2nd to only the Nugs with Jackson in instead of Murray(, Nugs 5 starters haven’t been doing that great). I think this brings up an important point, part of why the Nugs were so amazing last year and the Warriors the year before, was because they both had a dominating starting lineup. We have that. What we don’t have is that 6th man to come in and keep that NetRtg high, (last year the Nugs had Bruce Brown and this year it’s Reggie Jackson). I think the hope was that it could be Horford, but that hasn’t worked in practice yet.
An interesting wrinkle from last night is that we didn’t play the Tatum/White + 3 bench guys lineup nor did we play the Tatum + 4 bench guys lineup. We instead elected to go with Tatum/Jrue + 3 bench guys and that lineup had a -4.0 NetRtg.
One thing that I want to keep an eye on is the White/PP/Hauser/KP quartet. Are most used and most positive non-Tatum lineups featured these 4 players last night. They played with either Brown or Jrue, but not both. This was the first game these 4 played together and were a +22.2 in 5 minutes.
We have to find ways to win the non-Tatum minutes and maybe we do that by keeping Tatum with the starters and finding someone else to help White lead the bench. KP would be a promising candidate, as Brown hasn’t been able to do it in the past and KP would be next in line.