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The starting 5 played a whopping 6 minutes together in that game. ORTG 107.1 DRTG 107.1 NETRTG 0.0

Kidd only ever plays the staring five 10-12 minutes per game during the regular season. It's something I've highlighted several times. It's why I don't care as much as some do with who starts and who doesn't. Only 6 minutes in Game 1 is an outlier because of foul trouble, but either way, we put too much emphasis on starting lineups around here.

I said in the offseason that I think the best lineup and the closing 5 should be DLO-Max-Flagg-PJ-AD. 
That combination was never used but the lineup with the highest NETRTG was DLO-Max-Naji-PJ-AD.

Obviously, this is all small sample size stuff but wanted to respond to the above.

The issue is less about the starting lineup and more about playing without a true point guard.  Sticking with the small sample analysis, the two players with the highest net rating are Dlo and Nembhard.  As flawed as our PGs are, I don't think playing without a PG is going to work, and I don't think its doing anything positive for Flagg right now either.