The Rotation (2020-2021)

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KP/Powell/DFS/THJ/Luka

This was a GOOD lineup.

But the best lineup of the year (with significant minutes) was:

Luka/THJ/ DFS/DP/Kleber

Offense: 128.3 
Defense: 93.5 
Net: +34.8


And my strong opinion from looking at lots of lineups:

DFS needs to play alongside two bigs to be most effective. The Mavs are NOT at their best with him at PF/4.

Maybe this is why the Mavs paid a 2nd round pick for Johnson and wanted Gallinari so bad. They know that DFS is NOT a PF/4 and cannot play heavy minutes there. And KP is out to start....and DP is a question mark.

Notice that both bigman are able to defend on the perimeter. The DP/Kleber combination has been among the best in the league in the last few seasons but last season the lineup numbers are heavily impacted by KPs slow start. The starting five really struggled and KP had terrible +/- numbers. After the Powell injury and with an improving KP things changed. KP turned into the +/- leader of the team.