All U Can Heat » Off Topic http://allucanheat.com A Miami Heat Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 In The Past 10 Games, Which Lineups Have Been The Best? http://allucanheat.com/2013/04/04/in-the-past-10-games-which-lineups-have-been-the-best/ http://allucanheat.com/2013/04/04/in-the-past-10-games-which-lineups-have-been-the-best/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:25:19 +0000 Jae Bradley http://allucanheat.com/?p=5255 We have a pretty good idea what the best lineups this year have been (the Heat, the Pacers, Oklahoma City) but which lineups have been the best recently?  Put another way, which lineups have been on fire recently? I looked at the last ten games, and I only considered lineups that had played at least [...]

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]]> We have a pretty good idea what the best lineups this year have been (the Heat, the Pacers, Oklahoma City) but which lineups have been the best recently?  Put another way, which lineups have been on fire recently?

I looked at the last ten games, and I only considered lineups that had played at least 120 minutes (which is roughly an average of a quarter of basketball a game — not a trivial amount) to minimize sample size problems.  What I found was that

  • Memphis has had the best five-man lineup in the past 10 games (no surprise here as the Grizzlies are a top tier team).
  • And Utah’s lineup was surprisingly good, considering that the Jazz have one of the worst lineups in the league — and this lineup plays more minutes than any other Jazz lineup.  Has Ty Corbin found an effective lineup late into the season that can help deliver a playoff seed?
  • The OKC lineup of Durant, Ibaka, Perkins, Sefolosha, and Westbrook have a net rating of -2.6 in the past ten games which means that when they play, they get outscored by 2.6 points.  This is pretty surprising given that they have been one of the top lineups in the NBA this season.  Are they getting tired (they have played a ton of minutes this season) or coasting to the finish line?
  • The Toronto lineup has rebounded the hell out of their opponents — this is surprising considering that Toronto is 28th in the NBA in rebounds per game  However, the Toronto lineups, in the past ten games, has gotten nearly 60% of all rebounds.
  • The Utah lineup has been on fire.  They have a true shooting percentage of 63% in the past ten games.  In comparison, the best true shooting lineup in the league this season (Bosh, Chalmers, Haslem, James, Wade) have a true shooting percentage of 58.7%

 

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]]> The Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, and Oklahoma City Thunder have the three best lineups in the NBA  that have played at least 400 minutes (surprise, surprise).  Which lineups are the worst NBA lineups that have played at least 400 minutes?

  • The bad news for Utah?  Not only do they have the worst five-man lineup in the NBA…but this lineup plays the most minutes of any other Jazz lineup (by a mile).   The next most-used Jazz lineup has played 215 minutes this season.  Part of why this lineup sucks so much?  They only get 43% of the rebounds, which means their opponent gets a whopping 57% of the rebounds.
  • The same bad news for Utah also applies to Phoenix and Cleveland — these lineups play much more than any other lineup for their respective teams.
  • Utah’s record: (38-36)
  • Phoenix’s record: (23-51)
  • Cleveland’s record: (22-50)
  • Offensive Rating: Points Scored Per 100 Possessions
  • Defensive Rating: Points Conceded Per 100 Possessions
  • Net Rating: Point Differential Per 100 Possessions
  • Data from here.
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