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The bottom line on KP

Throw all speculation of any kind aside. This is the ONLY thing that matters when assessing the question of whether to keep KP or trade him: his fit with Luka on the court.



The Luka+KP net rating ranks the Mavs as 14th in the NBA. 

The Luka rating without KP (+6.1) ranks the Mavs 3rd in the NBA.



So the bottom line is this:

• When Luka and KP have played together this year the Mavs have been a fringe playoff team or lottery team.
  
• When Luka has played without KP this year the Mavs have been an elite contender.
  

Where are you getting those stats? I've scoured BBref, ESPN, NBA that uses ORTG/DRTG/Net rating along with lineup data. 

Are you using 5 man combinations? If so you don't think there could be noise in that data? Namely 3 other players on the court that could be affecting that overall net rating? 

KP is apart of our 4 best 5-man lineups in terms of 100 possessions.
Brunson/DFS/JRich/Kleber/KP- +19.8, 31 minutes
Brunson/Jrich/Luka/DFS/KP- +17.7 30 minutes
Brunson/Jrich/THJ/DFS/KP- +17.5 113 minutes
Luka/JRich/DFS/Kleber/KP- +12.4 282 minutes

The last one being our most played 5 man lineup. 

In fact this trend holds true with almost every lineup combination data. KP is apart of almost every positive lineup.