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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think Amir and Lowry have been showing a lot of chemistry with one-another since Lowry came back from his injury. Though it looked like Amir was close with both Calderon and Davis, so this is probably pretty hard on him.
One of the most successful 5-man units the Raptors have had in recent weeks is the smallball lineup of Lowry/Ross/DeRozan/Anderson/Johnson. 82games.com shows this lineup as having an offensive rating of 1.34 pts scored per possession, and .89 points allowed per possession. On paper, simply swapping in Gay for Anderson should make an even better smallball lineup. I know people are all over the fact that Gay isn't a particularly great passer and is too much a chucker, but when you swap him in for Anderson (which is where the bulk of his minutes will come from, it'll probably create more ball movement. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that being Casey's crunch-time lineup for the time being.
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how many minutes? sample size is probably an issue since that lineup is so small that nobody can really guard a big except for amir unless they maybe play zone