[Raptors Report] Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn are usually two of the first players off the bench, and have a ghastly -16.6 Net Rating as a tandem. That is the worst on the team (outside of 2-man lineups with Gradey Dick). Something needs to change.
Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn are usually two of the first players off the bench, and have a ghastly -16.6 Net Rating as a tandem. That is the worst on the team (outside of 2-man lineups with Gradey Dick). Something needs to change.
— Raptors Report (@RapsReport) December 3, 2023
by EarthWarping
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They need roster upgrades on the bench or at least better optimization.
Precious has been the problem more so than Flynn which is the sad thing. He’s got bricks for hands and has zero touch around the rim.
The thing that needs to change is that Flynn and Precious will improve. This is the point of hiring darko and not signing additional veteran talent. Sorry everyone.
I’m how many minutes? Precious has missed a lot of time due to injury. And how many of these minutes have been with Siakam/OG?
They both suck and won’t be in the league in 3 years
Precious is really fumbling his NBA career rn. Malachi I can see a path to a second contract, but Precious really might just get a QO if that.
Just sad. The dude is an incredible athlete but hasn’t been able to convert that into basketball effectiveness
Nothing needs to change since we’re developing not trying to win
No wonder Nick was playing the starters 40+ minutes a night
Yeah, both need to get off the team. That’s the change. Achiuwa has shown no improvement and is flat out trash. Malachi has surprisingly shown a lot this season, but yeah, he doesn’t move the needle.
There’s developing and then there’s wasting your time. IMO these 2 are the latter. I haven’t seen anything that makes me think they will ever consistently be positive contributors to a decent to good NBA team.
why do i feel we are the only team in the league that consistently lets trash players have roles they shouldn’t have? kinda insane when u think about it
Get Jordan Clarkson
Argh, I hate people using things like two-man lineups out of context. It should always be done as two steps:
(a) look at two man or three-man lineups… see something that looks like a noteworthy trend.
(b) dig into the five-man lineups that include these and see what’s going on.
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So, let’s do that.
Most of Flynn and Achiuwa’s minutes together have come from the unit with GTJ, Siakam, and Barnes. This unit has a net rating of -4.9 in 27 minutes. That’s not good, but it’s not awful either. It’s a relatively new unit, and it’s show some potential and generally bring great energy. For a team that bleeds points in any unit that doesn’t have at least 4 starters, it’s okay.
Next most used (24 min) includes Barnes, Boucher and Dick. Shockingly, that unit has actually done okay (+0.3 net)! One of the statistically better Barnes + bench units, one of the only Dick units to not go heavily negative. I wouldn’t chalk that up to being a winning combination of players… just an okay unit a small sample size.
Okay, things look okay so far. So why is the net rating for this pair so bad?
There are three more units with that pair that have played 10+ minutes, a combined 38 minutes among the 3. The other players on the court in these units are:
Barnes, Trent McDaniels: 15 minutes, -36 net rating.
Boucher, Dick, McDaniels: 13 minutes, -16.
Barnes, Boucher, McDaniels: 10 minutes, -56.
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I will leave this lineup data here without commentary and let you draw your own inferences from them. But I will suggest there’s more going on here than just ‘Flynn + Achiuwa bad together.’
Precious is currently looking at being out of the league. Great athlete with no tangible basketball skills
Malachi has actual Basketball skill but is too small and not strong enough to not get picked on. I think a tanking team could talk themselves into giving him $10m/2yr as a back up flyer
Malachi Flynn is one of the worst players I have ever seen wear the jersey