[NBA University] Bulls top 7 most played lineups and their Net Ratings, with garbage time removed
I’m showing the 7 most played 5-man lineups of every non-playoff team this season. Included is their net rating and how many non-garbage-time possessions they played together. Hope it’s a helpful resource!
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by IMKudaimi123
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For what it’s worth, the Lonzo-Caruso-LaVine-DeRozan-Vucevic lineup in 2021-22 had a net rating of +12.5
Put Green in for Caruso it’s +3.5
White and Green replacing Caruso and Lonzo were +7.3, switching Lonzo for Caruso was +9.3
Dosunmu with green and the big 3 was the most played lineup with a -4.8 net rating
White/Dosunmu backcourt with the big 3 were +20.1
The original starting lineup from 2021-22 was +9.6
Then some wonky ones, big 3 + Caruso and Dosunmu -22, Vuc LaVine white Dosunmu and Troy brown -13.9, and DeMar LaVine Caruso ball and Bradley +30.7
All these lineups played at least 60 minutes together the top 10 lineups for the Bulls in 2021-22
Interesting, that Coby/Ayo/Drummond squad with the +6. Of course playoff basketballs very different.
Interesting stats! Good stuff
How the fuck is swapping Beverly for Caruso a minus 40 difference with the Williams-Lavine-DeRozan-Vucevic lineup? It sort of matches the eye test too (Bulls always gave up leads when Bev-Lavine-DeRozan-Williams-Vucevic played), but it just makes no sense to me. Maybe everyone struggled offensively cause teams ignored Beverly? It’s not like they guard Caruso super tightly either.
Also, I’m actually surprised the Ayo-Lavine-DeRozan-Williams-Vucevic lineup had a positive net rating. I remember that lineup always getting us in a hole at the start of games.
I’m surprised the Beverley-LaVine-DeRozan-Williams-Vucevic lineup is so bad, it seems fairly well rounded in the three key areas of play, scoring defense and rebounding
A few more from this season
Vuc-LaVine-Caruso-Williams-Dosunmu +4.3
Big 3 – white – Williams +10.9
Vuc-DeRozan-Caruso-Williams-Dosunmu -19.2
Beverley-Vuc-LaVine-White-Williams +29.3
Dragic-Derozan-Drummond-DJJ-White +19.2
Big 3 – Caruso – white +19.5
I couldn’t draw any conclusions about Chicago’s line-ups this year, at all. And this confirms it. It’s just like, noisy data from a very inconsistent collection of players who didn’t bring the same defensive/rebounding effort throughout the season, and couldn’t shoot the broad side of a barn. I’m surprised some of these big minute line-ups ended up positive (specifically the primary one with Ayo/Pat… the miserable first half).
Only thing that didn’t surprise me was that Drummond and some shooters ranked positively… and the Bev/Caruso backcourt took care of business with the “faux 3.”