I looked at the team and individual performance in the following splits from our first 19 games. All numbers came from nbawowry.com



In all these analyses, lineups were defined as follows:

In 19 games, Hornets played a total of 917 min. Out of those, 846 min belonged to the categories shown in table 1. There were other minutes in which none of the 4 players were on the floor, or Kemba/Batum were with one of the Lin/Lamb. Since those other line-ups were played only for 10-12 min each, their sample sizes are too small to be included.



So first let’s take a look of time distribution, and each lineup’s offensive and defensive rating, as well as net rating.

Table 1: Team overall performance for these lineups.

Batum playing with bench had the fastest pace compared to other lineups.

Batum playing with bench had the best offensive rating.

Kemba playing with bench had the best defensive rating.

Bench by themselves, or playing together with Batum had the best NetRtg. It was >10.

Starters without Lamb or Lin was the only lineup that had negative NetRtg.

Kemba playing with the bench had a net rating of 0, significantly lower than the NetRtg for other Bench lineups.

Table 2: Team shooting efficiency and percentage of shot assisted





