After 11 games, here's how our most-used lineups are doing.
I filtered out any lineup that was on the floor for less than 3 minutes. It is sorted by +/-.
The lineups with a red mark mean there were at least 2 of our Top Six playing with 3 bench guys, and the green mark means there were at least 3 of our Top Six playing with 2 bench guys.
Obviously with 6 All-Star caliber players we're not going to be a team that does first-unit, second-unit hockey subs, Joe's strategy is to always have a couple of the Top Six in with the bench, so it's interesting to see some of our "bench lineups" (e.g. bench players with a couple of starters) doing pretty well. The Al-White-PP-Hauser-Tatum lineup anchored by JT has a 6.3 +/- in 3 games playing 4.5 min a game. The Jrue-PP-Hauser-Kornet-Tatum lineup has played together for 5.8mins in 2 games and has a +/- of 7.
This data won't be really meaningful until we get a decent sample size of maybe 20+ games where we can see the most used lineups per game, so maybe end of December? But so far the bench hasn't embarrassed itself, because we've never had a situation where we have an all-bench lineup playing meaningful minutes - they are there to support the big guns they are on the court with and to help them be the best versions of themselves, and to hit open shots, rebound and hustle.
I included my query link below if anyone wants to change my filters:
https://www.nba.com/stats/lineups/traditional?CF=MIN*GE*3&TeamID=1610612738&dir=D&slug=traditional&sort=PLUS_MINUS