No. 1 LA Clippers lineup that Ty Lue must try this season:
PG: Eric Bledsoe
SG: Terance Mann
SF: Paul George
PF: Nicolas Batum
PF: Marcus Morris Sr.
The Clippers will likely want to go small during many moments of this season, due to their success with small ball lineups last year.
With Bledsoe in the picture, this is what that would look like. Of course, we’d prefer Jackson over Mann in this situation, but I still think Lue can find opportunity to try this lineup.
We need Mann to get a lot of minutes so that he can develop, and so this is an opportunity for him to be in an interesting lineup that he’d work well in. He really exceled in small ball lineups last year, and he will again.
Hopefully we get Kawhi Leonard back into these lineups soon, as they’ll look impeccable when he’s out there. As of right now, however, the lineups will look like this when Bledsoe is out there.