08-03-2024, 01:05 PM
(08-03-2024, 02:13 AM)F Gump Wrote: You forgot:
Maxi + Lively net rating of +10
All of those are regular season.
In the playoffs:
Maxi + PJ had a net rating of -5
Maxi + Gafford had a net rating of -16
Maxi + Lively net rating of +4
FWIW, in both regular season and playoffs, Maxi played more minutes at PF, and the vast majority of those minutes was with Lively. The issue wasn't him playing PF, but playing next to Gafford.
I think the playoff numbers are at least partially due to the fact that the Maxi + PJ combo would presumably most effect against OKC (Maxi was out) and Boston (Mavs got slaughtered).
Maxi played about twice as minutes with Lively as with Gafford (not sure that is vast majority). Some of that is probably due to Lively being on the second unit. Now that Lively is starting, more of the available second unit 4 minutes are probably going to be with Gafford.
I think there are definitely matchups where Maxi makes a lot of sense at the 5 (and clearly Kidd applied those well during the regular season based on the net rating), but there will be less times he makes sense as a forward. In most (if not all) cases we would be better off with any combination of Luka/PJ/Naji at the two forward spots. There will still be minutes for him there with expanded lineups, but I don't think he will be part of the top 8 in minutes any longer.