re: Small sample size, but is this the lineup of the future?

from that article, i think this should be mentioned:

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There is one super fascinating wrench in the data, and that is the NO SHOOTER lineups. These lineups of course are the ones without any of CJ, Trey, Hawk, and Matt on the court. In 459 no shooter possessions (also minus Liddell, Gates, Seabron, and JRE to remove garbage time), the Pelicans are a +18.28. The bulk of these possessions, however, feature all three of the Zion, BI, and JV trio, and almost all of them feature at least two of the three.

The Pelicans had a ton of success running the Dyson, Herb, BI, Zion, JV starting lineup and that success is carrying a lot of this data. However, the no-shooter configurations are shooting 39% from three, with even the above starting 5 clocking in at 40% from deep. The combination of unsustainable shooting, defense generated transition play, and offensive rebounds, the Pelicans found a way to make no shooter groups work.

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Simply put, we are playing really good basketball overall.