In their first 24 games (before facing Golden State), the Nets utilized 222 different five-man lineups. Most of those lineups have been on the court for just a minute or two all season, and only nine have played even 20 minutes together. While it is fun to debate their relative merits, we have far too little evidence to seriously evaluate them as units. But we know that lineups matter. Successful teams thrive on synergy, not just the sum of their separate parts.
Hard as it is to evaluate five-man lineups, much more information has already begun to accumulate on the performance of two-man combinations.