[The Mavs Blog] It is an incredibly small sample size, but when Dallas ran out this lineup: Doncic – Irving – Green – Williams – Lively II Offensive Rating: 145.5 Defensive Rating: 83.3 Those are ELITE numbers. Hoping we can see that lineup open and close games together!
by MAVS_COM1CAL
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Twitter is, in fact, the coach. Kidd will make corrections once he sees this.
So, the lineup we thought would be the core five all summer? R/mavericks armchair GM’s were right again.
well, it was the lineup that played the most mins.
That should be the starting lineup
But I fully expect minimum wage DJJ to start again today
A bit curious how many minutes was this lineup played? I remember the last 2-3 min of the game and some minutes in q2.
We already know that offense is not going to be a problem with this team.
IMO all they need to do is just be **at least average** in defense and rebounding to be elite.
It’s a terrible sample of data. One Spurs game just off of a tanking season.
Lineup data from one game is literally meaningless lol
Right now we are overreacting to winning a relatively close game to a team that is not expected to compete for a playoff spot. I haven’t had a chance to watch the game yet, i was out of the country, but it sounds like we played well. However, lets give ourselves 5-10 games before we talk about how Elite we are.
It doesn’t really matter if this lineup starts. I don’t even think this lineup will be the most played (Carlisle used to love saving his best rotations come playoff time. Maybe it’s a scouting thing?), but it certainly has to be the lineup we close every tight game with.
I dont want to over hype anything… but… we might not lose another game
Preaching to the choir
While yes this should be the lineup, referencing offensive and defensive rating for 1 game into the season is absurd lol.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I kinda want to see what a Luka-Kyrie-Williams-Maxi-Lively lineup does. I hope we get to see that at some point this year.
Starting DJJ over Green is a travesty.
Starting THJ, or going big with Grant at the 3… ok, maybe. But DJJ over Green is bollocks.
I mean those are our 5 best players so makes sense lol
Assuming Lively is as good as he looks in the first game, those 5 are probably our best 5. Even a rookie Lively is likely better than any of our other center options, and that’s a disgusting net rating.