The Philadelphia 76ers are experimenting with a brand new starting lineup as the season gets set to resume in Orlando. The major move is that Shake Milton is moving into the starting lineup with Ben Simmons moving over to the power forward position and Al Horford moving to the bench.
That means the starting lineup is now Milton, Josh Richardson, Tobias Harris, Simmons, and Joel Embiid. That is a lineup that has never played together this season and the Sixers are rolling with it in this restart as they believe it gives them a better shot at winning.
However, due to the lack of minutes they’ve played together, they get a low ranking in Bleacher Report’s rankings of starting lineups in Orlando. They come in placed 12th out of the 22 teams.
B/R on the lineup:
A five-man lineup of Milton, Richardson, Harris, Simmons and Embiid has yet to share the floor together at all this season, with the four-man combo of Milton, Harris, Simmons and Embiid registering a disastrous minus-11.5 net rating.
Despite a disappointing 39-26 start to the season, the starting unit of Simmons, Richardson, Harris, Horford and Embiid was actually pretty good together, putting up an 8.5 net rating in 244 total minutes.
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The hope for this new group is that Milton will provide some shooting and more ball-handling that’ll allow the team to play much faster. As Philadelphia gets set to get back at it on Friday for their first scrimmage game. [lawrence-related id=35212,35192,35182]