re: Zach Lowe on the Hornets rest of the year

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Davis and Anderson are terrible together, its a fact

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Here are the 5 man lineup #s on NBA.com for all lineups with Davis/Anderson that have played more than 20 minutes total:

Aminu/Anderson/Davis/Gordon/Vasquez

14 Games 69 Minutes played
ORating- 100.3 DRating- 104.9

Aminu/Anderson/Davis/Rivers/Vasquez

16 Games 43 Minutes played
ORating- 112.2 DRating 98.7

Aminu/Anderson/Davis/Mason/Vasquez

10 Games 27 Minutes played
ORating- 115.6 DRating- 122.1

Anderson/Davis/Rivers/Thomas/Vasquez

8 Games 24 Minutes played
ORating- 99.8 DRating- 89.5

Anderson/Davis/Gordon/Mason/Vasquez

7 Games 24 minutes
ORating- 120.7 DRating- 151.1

Anderson/Davis/Mason/McGuire/Roberts

4 Games 23 minutes
ORating- 105.4 DRating- 107.2

Anderson/Davis/Rivers/Roberts/Vasquez

3 Games 22 minutes
ORating- 143.8 DRating- 136.2

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A few thoughts:

The numbers aren't great, but they aren't terrible.

The defense is awful, but the entire team's defense is awful.

The units without a real SF (and we're talking about Aminu, McGuire, and Thomas as SFs here) stick out like a sore thumb defensively.

It's probably a fair helping of both, but are their #s bad because of an inherent flaw or are they bad because of poor guard play most of the seaosn?