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Great listen here for all my Powell haters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LiG7L1pZjo

Top 5 ranked defense with Luka + Kyrie + Lively on.
30th ranked defense when Lively is off.

It´s so obvious watching the team. We´d basically be the same team as last year, if not for Lively, which shows you all those advanced stats for Powell are pretty empty.

Hilarious.  You do see the irony of calling out 'advanced stats' and then using them to try to prove a point.  It is fantastic that Lively is playing well with the stars (or if you hate advanced stats, you might instead say the five man lineups that include those three have played well).  But, if you don't mind, I'd like to check the stats that back up the obvious conclusion that Powell sucks and contributes to this 30th ranked D when Lively isn't playing with Kyrie and Luka.

Luka and Kyrie have only played 175 minutes together and Lively has played 148 or those.  That leaves 27 minutes of possible "empty stats" for Powell.  Except that Maxi played 18 of those minutes with Luka and Kyrie (-24 with a D-Rating of 131.7) representing 5% of total minutes played this season.  Now we are down to 9 possible minutes where Powell could be at fault in your obvious eye test.  Except, he hasn't played a single minute with Kyrie and Luka this season.