Lakers are intentionally gimping themselves to make it fair

[Trollsmasher]

Based on the metrics they are literally losing 1 net rating point for every minute they play JaVale over Dwight.

Juust by moving 5 more minutes from JaVale to Dwight they could get to +15 netrtg, which would be the greatest of all time.

[ImKobe]

It's a small sample size. Javale is still a good player and it's not like we're playing him 30 minutes a game, he gets less minutes than Dwight. I like Dwight with the 2nd unit, allows us to stagger Lebron/AD minutes. You don't want to play them all together to start the game, all it matters is that they play together in the 4th in a close game.