We can look at how often LeBron’s lineups featured each type of teammate and how those lineups performed on offense throughout his career.
You can read all the nitty, gritty details about how we’re using Synergy data to define our offensive roles in a separate post but, basically, we’re sorting players based on different combinations of their play-type and shot-type rates (%TIME stats) that best describe the ways in which they try to help their teams score. These offensive roles are defined by how a player tries to help his team score points, either through the shots that he takes himself or the ones he sets up for his teammates with his playmaking. LeBron has played with each of the 11 different types of players in our offensive role system. We can use our new offensive role system to look back at the combinations of player archetypes that have worked well next to LeBron on offense (as well as some of the combinations that haven’t worked so well).
Over the years, he’s played with every type of player in every possible lineup combination.īut what type of lineup works best around LeBron? Our Actionable Analytics squad has been working on a system for classifying player’s offensive roles – learn more about how coaches and scouts can use this new feature to develop winning team strategies.ĭuring his 20 seasons in the NBA, LeBron James has played with 214 different teammates – from Norris Cole to Cole Swider and from Ray Allen to Alan Henderson, teaming up with 7 different Mr.
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