This stuff is the sign of incredibly deep, and balanced team. And we know Tatum can, and often has outplayed any other superstar in a playoff series. That’s a recipe for winning a title. These will also show how Joe has kind of cracked the rotation, which most of us guessed the wrong lineup combos lol. We all assumed holiday would be paired with Jaylen, and White with Tatum, but it’s been White/Jaylen/KP, and Tatum/Holiday.
Jaylen on, Tatum off: +8.3, 85th percentile
Tatum on, Jaylen off: +14.5, 96th percentile
Jaylen on, KP off: -0.3, 44th percentile
Tatum on, KP off: +8.4, 85th percentile
Jaylen on, White off: -8.0, 21st percentile
Tatum on, White off: +0.7, 51st percentile
Jaylen on, Holiday off: +6.5, 80th percentile
Tatum on, Holiday off: +6.8, 81st percentile
Jaylen on, Horford off: +11.3, 91st percentile
Tatum on, Horford off: +11.6, 94th percentile
Jaylen, KP, White on, Tatum off: +15.3, 97th percentile
Tatum/holiday on, Jaylen/White/KP off: +19.9, 99th percentile
Tatum on, Holiday/KP/Jaylen off: +24.6, 100th percentile.
Tatum/Pritchard/Kornet on: +23.4, and it jumps to +25.9 with Hauser, but it’s less than 100 possessions.
Some of these are relatively short sample, but there is a pretty clear trend emerging. They’ve figured out how to balance the rotation. Jaylen with two or three other starters, and Tatum with another starter and bench guys, or just Tatum and 4 bench guys. Doesn’t matter which, we dominate all of them. Unless White is sitting, in which case we suck again