The Milwaukee Bucks rounded the first third of the season exceeding most fans’ expectations. Giannis looks like a superstar, Jabari is rounding into the globular, bunch-scorer fans thought he’d be coming out of college and the team is somehow sticking near the top ten in both offensive and defensive efficiency.
These have been surprising known quantities thus far, but we haven’t dived too deeply into the breadth of lineup permutations Jason Kidd has tried this year. Lineup data isn’t always the best as it can be pretty noisy until you have really large sample sizes to examine. At this point, really the only one that would be worth discerning rational conclusions from is the starting lineup of Matthew Dellavedova, Tony Snell, Jabari Parker, Giannis Antetokounmpo and John Henson, who’ve played 349 minutes together.