Player The blessed howl's moving Castle of Stephon Javonte

[scott]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2018498003594588422

+6.2 with just Steph and Wemby

Each PG solo with Wemby:

Minutes	NetRtg	ORtg	DRtg
Fox	123	16.68	102.16	103.47
Castle	253	6.42	118.36	111.94
Harper	93	33.19	126.74	93.55

+6.42 is still very good... and there is no reason to be mad at that... but there is a lot of evidence that suggests the team flows better with Fox or Harper as primary ball handler (in addition to the simple eye test). Let's just use Castle properly?

PG Combos with and without Wemby:

On	Off	Min	NetRtg	ORtg	DRtg
Wemby	Castle, Fox, Harper	27	-37.17	107.27	1444.44
Wemby, Castle, Fox	Harper	328	+1.98	117.9	115.92
Wemby, Castle, Harper	Fox	101	+34.02	120.28	86.26
Wemby, Harper, Fox	Castle	82	+20.72	121.3	100.58
Fox	Wemby, Castle, Harper	363	+6.35	123.02	116.67
Castle, Fox	Wemby, Harper	225	-0.08	116.08	116.16
Harper	Wemby, Castle, Fox	203	+0.14	121.43	121.29
Castle, Harper	Wemby, Fox	175	-5.62	103.59	109.21
Harper, Fox	Wemby, Castle	162	-5.96	113.19	119.15
Castle	Wemby, Fox, Harper	113	+10.06	114.64	104.58
All 4	90	-4.30	107.53	111.83
Castle, Fox, Harper	Wemby	13	-19.29	110.71	130.00
All 4	6	-14.29	100.00	114.29

• Thought it was interesting how both Fox and Castle manage to lead successful lineups by themselves, on pretty decent sample size. Hopefully this is noticed by our staff for non-Wemby minutes.
• I don't have the data to back this up, so take this with a grain of salt, but my recollection (which may be incorrect) is that Castle defers to Harper a lot more as the primary ball handler when they share the court versus when he shares with Fox. To me that confirms my hypothesis that things just run more smoothly with Fox or Harper as lead ball handler, but that may actually just be confirmation bias. I'm not sure how to go about pairing up the right data to look at this...
• Wemby should never be on the court without one of these guys, sheesh
• Hydra lineup sample size is small but has been largely ineffective offensively thus far