The Thunder should never have gone down in 5 games. Dallas played great but OKC made many blunders. It was clear to everyone that Collison needed to be on court more but Ibaka and Perkins logged more minutes than Collison. With Collison in OKC played 16 points better than average and with Collison out 4 points worse than average. Also with Perk and Ibaka in OKC in 84 minutes played 13 ppg worse than average and was -38 points. Also OKC closed Game 5 with MAynor and Westbrook on court. All season this has been poor (13 ppg worse than average).
On the other hand Dallas made great lineup decisions. OKC’s blunders allowed Dallas’ usually poor starting lineup to flourish. Mavs even found a great lineup (Peja, Chandler, Kidd, Terry and Marion, #4 below) to rest Dirk.
Here are some details on the most played lineups for each team in the series. Lineup 1 for example, played 54.62 minutes, played 17.34 ppg better than average and was +13 points.
1 Chandler Kidd Marion Nowitzki Stevenson 17.34 54.62 OKC DAL* 11.43 13 13600_DAL_2011
2 Chandler Kidd Marion Nowitzki Terry 54.24 32.39 OKC DAL* 41.48 28 21792_DAL_2011
3 Barea Haywood Nowitzki Terry Stojakovic 12.63 23.55 OKC DAL* 10.19 5 86082_DAL_2011
4 Chandler Kidd Marion Terry Stojakovic 55.93 16.53 OKC DAL* 43.53 15 83232_DAL_2011
5 Barea Haywood Marion Nowitzki Terry -35.16 12.07 OKC DAL* -51.70 -13 21570_DAL_2011
6 Chandler Kidd Nowitzki Stevenson Terry 19.12 11.90 OKC DAL* 8.06 2 28960_DAL_2011
7 Haywood Kidd Marion Terry Stojakovic -6.19 9.96 OKC DAL* -14.44 -3 83264_DAL_2011
8 Haywood Kidd Marion Nowitzki Terry 68.10 7.81 OKC DAL* 61.53 10
You can see the 4 lineups the Mavs played the most were very good. Mavs went with Barea too much; he was abused defensively.
Now look at most played OKC lineups. Four of the 5 lineups that played the most were bad!
1 Durant Ibaka Sefolosha Westbrook Perkins -15.89 57.50 DAL OKC* -22.54 -27 77896_OKC_2011
2 Durant Harden Ibaka Westbrook Perkins -7.26 25.65 DAL OKC* -20.58 -11 73832_OKC_2011
3 Collison Durant Harden Westbrook Perkins 34.56 19.73 DAL OKC* 29.22 12 73770_OKC_2011
4 Collison Durant Harden Maynor Westbrook -14.77 16.12 DAL OKC* -29.77 -10 8746_OKC_2011
5 Collison Durant Ibaka Sefolosha Westbrook -14.75 14.97 DAL OKC* -28.84 -9
The following lineups were great for Thunder during entire season. Note #3 above was good all year. Why did we not see more of the good lineups below when the other lineups faltered?
OKC 20.85 ( 12.71 8.02 -4.69 30.19 1.91 6.32) 84.57 minutes 53 appearances 3 B 14.19 25 $
Collison Durant Harden Westbrook Perkins 24.41 years 73770_OKC_2011
OKC 18.29 ( 5.10 11.72 6.62 23.17 1.03 6.22) 82.31 minutes 82 appearances 5 B 13.41 23 $
Durant Harden Ibaka Sefolosha Westbrook 22.74 years 12392_OKC_2011
OKC 26.83 ( 19.20 11.52 -7.69 56.04 3.21 5.62) 62.46 minutes 59 appearances 6 B 26.13 34 $
Collison Durant Harden Maynor Mohammed 26.13 years 33322_OKC_2011
OKC 22.36 ( 6.78 -0.96 -7.74 6.49 0.79 3.66) 62.34 minutes 42 appearances 7 B 21.56 28 $
Collison Cook Harden Ibaka Maynor 24.01 years 614_OKC_2011
OKC 35.90 ( 13.67 4.01 -9.65 24.04 1.83 6.14) 61.45 minutes 38 appearances 8 B 28.12 36 $
Collison Durant Sefolosha Westbrook Perkins 25.47 years 77834_OKC_2011
OKC 30.92 ( 16.66 17.09 0.43 32.15 2.34 5.83) 58.68 minutes 44 appearances 1 C 22.09 27 $
Collison Cook Durant Harden Westbrook
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