Back when Dwyane Wade was ruled out for the season, it wasn’t an uncommon belief that the team may be better off without him. Wade, though far from the team’s best player, had its highest usage rate. So getting those possessions out of his hands and into, if not more accomplished, more efficient and better-fitting players, could improve the shooting, spacing, and ball-movement.
It’s even better than that when you just look at the starters, as Mark Karantzoulis did at his new blog BullsHQ:
In limited minutes (73), a five-man combination of Rondo, Butler, Zipser, Mirotic and Lopez is scoring 139.