(11-13-2023, 07:17 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Conversely, the best On-minus-Off players through 10 games are DJJ 13.4, Luka 11.9, Lively 11.6, GWill 8.9 and Exum 4.9. Everyone else is negative which includes Irving and three mainstays of the bench in Green, Powell and THJ. Everyone in the top 9 has a positive On Court. As much as anything, this appears to be Kyrie's slow start more than a systemic issue with the bench. We don't really have a true "bench" as one of the super-stars is always on the court.
Not trying to be against your opinion, just an observation. I just noticed how fluctuating the small sample on/off is. I used same metric three games ago and first four players stated above were slightly negative while Exum basically "lost" his minutes at that point. Offense with DJJ was much worse than without him. Only three games later the picture looks totally different, as offense with him is basically same while defense is still drastically better. I guess two convincing victories in last two games changed the picture a lot.
As for line-ups. I think Green replaces DJJ on a more regular basis. He replaced Grant against Clippers because he had early foul trouble and against NO because Mavs were matching GW and Williamson sub pattern (they were both substituted at same time in Q1). Otherwise I think rotations are fairly set and individual number of minutes depend on how well a certain player is playing on a given night. Exum for example almost fell out of rotation (more doing with huge amount of guards Mavs have than with him not playing well) but was great against Clippers and played more.