11-04-2021, 02:59 PM
(11-04-2021, 02:39 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Are you referencing a metric, or just saying "net negative" as an opinion? Honestly curious, not pushing back by asking a question.
Not sure about that. That looks more like a situational lineup. I wouldn't expect KP/Max/DFS to play big minutes together. I think it's more likely to see two of the three together.
On defense, both those guys have negative advanced stats (for both DRPM and DBPM are roughly -1 over the last couple years), but it is also an opinion. Neither look good to the eye test, and Brunson looks a little worse due to his size. Neither are point of attack defenders.
As for KP/Maxi/DFS, those guys were part of our starting lineup last year when healthy (that lineup with Luka and JRich had the most minutes of any 5 man lineup) and it dominated, particularly offensively (and that was with JRich!). I know JRich is hated around here, but it is still probably a drop off defensively to go from him to Brunson. That should be more than made up for with a healthy KP and Maxi (although I am wondering if that is ever going to happen).