<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Possible changes in starting lineup April 26, 2006, 10:09 PM CDT Bulls coach Scott Skiles said Wednesday he might make changes to the starting lineup for Game 3. With Malik Allen hurting because of back spasms and Michael Sweetney having a lot of trouble with Shaquille O'Neal in Games 1 and 2, maybe it's time to give Luol Deng and Tyson Chandler a try. Chandler is prone to foul trouble, and if he picks up two early fouls as he did in Game 2, the Bulls will be in big trouble. Chandler has the toughest balancing act of any Bull. He needs to be cautious of fouls, but he can't afford to scale back his aggressiveness. He will need the defensive game of his life to guard O'Neal.</div> Source
I think that is probably the best lineup that he could come up with. That is probably the one lineup that has the most talented player starting at each position. I would not mind that change at all. Hinrich, Gordon, Deng, Nocioni, Chandler I don’t mind that at all. Hopefully Deng can explode. He is making my job a lot harder though when it comes to the game previews.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Best Kept Secret:</div><div class="quote_post">I think that is probably the best lineup that he could come up with. That is probably the one lineup that has the most talented player starting at each position. I would not mind that change at all. Hinrich, Gordon, Deng, Nocioni, Chandler I don?t mind that at all. Hopefully Deng can explode. He is making my job a lot harder though when it comes to the game previews.</div> I also don't mind the line-up. I did want to see Tyson start a game against the Heat. But, I will miss Allen in the line-up. Because he usually starts off hot and makes most of his jumpshots.
Well I was bored so I started looking through 82games.com and looking up which of our lineups are must effect. How surprised was I to find out that our most effective lineup did not have Deng in it. According to this our most effective lineup, statistically is Hinrich, Gordon, Nocioni, Allen, and Chandler with a winning percentage of 66.6%. At a close second was Hinrich, Gordon, Deng, Songaila, and Chandler with a win percentage of 59.2%. Here is the full chart
