07-25-2024, 10:17 PM
(07-25-2024, 07:30 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: The period to study for insight into the intent of their design, I think, is the last 27-5 (might have the loss total wrong) stretch of the regular season when they were possibly the best team in the NBA.
Nope, too far back. Different roster through G 52. First game w the new guys was G 53. But some of that is obsolete, as they said they changed something significant in their setup at (or maybe after) G 63 vs MIA. Over the remainder (incl MIA) which was 18 games (they blew off G's 81,82) they were 16-2.
Doing a cursory glimpse at those 18 using some simple box score observations looks like the same answer - Kleber playing about 40% of his minutes at C. That assumes Gafford and Lively both available, of course, and assuming they aren't playing together. Used rough math. Observations might OVER-count his minutes at C, because I suspect there were some garbage time minutes in there some games. (10 of the 16 wins were by 10 or more.) But close enough.
We'll see what happens in November.