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[mvossman]

Thats the whole point. He doesn't really, as he is terribly inefficient. Vast majority of his shots are coming from someone creating for him and when he doesn't, he is just bad at it. His EFG is almost 60 % when shooting without dribbling and it drops to even below 40 % (which is horrible) when he takes more than 1 dribble. His strength is that he is able to take and hit shots at good percentage even when he is not completely open. If he doesn't need to dribble. So, you either play him next to one of the stars and three defenders (a very one dimensional offense) or you play him next to two guards capable of creating (all of those guys on Mavs are bad defenders) and you will have bad defense. Neither is good.

Tim Hardaway Jr. | Dallas Mavericks | NBA.com

Didn't we field the best offense in the history of the NBA with essentially Luka and 4 spot up shooters?  I can see the argument for not relying on that for our first unit, but that should be just fine for bench units.

I mean we can probably survive some Luka/Kyrie/Timmy (last year was +13)

We can also add some secondary playmaking without Kyrie such as Luka/Green/Timmy (last year was +14)

Or turn it around with Kyrie/Green/Timmy (last year was +12)

Or how about all 4 on the court together (last year was +21)

I will be one of the first guys to mention that there is a lot of noise with lineup data, but at least last year it didn't seem like we suffered that much with Timmy playing with Luka and/or Kyrie.