{"id":684424,"date":"2026-03-28T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/684424\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:03:20","slug":"dubs-trio-has-dominant-net-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/684424\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubs Trio Has Dominant Net Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind 28 points from Kristaps Porzingis and 27 points from Gui Santos, the Golden State Warriors edged the Washington Wizards 131-126 on Friday at Chase Center. <\/p>\n

Brandin Podziemski (22), Gary Payton II (15), Pat Spencer (13) and LJ Cryer (12) also scored in double figures for the Dubs (36-38). <\/p>\n

Will Riley paced the Wizards (17-56) with 22 points. <\/p>\n

Here are two takeaways from Friday’s game. <\/p>\n

Lineups with Santos, Porzingis and Podz Have a Dominant Net Rating<\/p>\n

The Warriors turned a five-point fourth-quarter deficit into a five-point win, which is impressive even with the context that the Wizards are a) a bad team and b) didn’t play four of their five starters down the stretch. <\/p>\n

But what’s more impressive is how dominant the Santos-Porzingis-Podz lineups this season. <\/p>\n

In 213 possessions, lineups with that trio have a plus-11.3 net rating, per Cleaning the Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their chemistry was on full display down the stretch. <\/p>\n

First, Porzinigs hit a mid-range jumper, simply shooting over a smaller defender. Next, the defense crowded Porzingis, so he passed it to Santos in the opposite corner for a three. <\/p>\n

Next, the Warriors ran split actoin with Porzingis as the screener, and considering Porzingis was having a big game, his defender didn’t step up at all, giving Podz a wide-open three. <\/p>\n

Admittedly, the sample size for this trio’s lineups still isn’t that big. It’s about 102 minutes over 10 games. <\/p>\n

But it’s not insignificant either. <\/p>\n

And what’s most promising is Santos and Podz are under contract next season and Porzingis seems likely to be back after he praised<\/a> Rick Celebrini. <\/p>\n

These three players will likely be on the court a lot next season with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green. That’s a decent five-man lineup that would be even better with a healthy Jimmy Butler inserted for Green. <\/p>\n

Dunleavy Deserves Credit for Cryer Two-Way<\/p>\n

LJ Cryer had 12 points on four threes and was a game-high plus-11. He continues to impress with his toughness on defense, his feel for getting open on offense and of course his excellent shooting stroke. <\/p>\n

Cryer is 30-of-69 from three this season. That’s not a fluke. Anyone who shoots that well should have a role in the NBA, and fortuantely for the Warriors, Cryer is signed through next season on his two-way contract. <\/p>\n

Whether he signs a standard contract in the next few months or the Warriors keep him on his two-way until deep into next season before converting his contract, Cryer should be on the team at least through 2026-27, and I’d wager that the team will give him a multiyear contract that keeps in the Bay much longer. <\/p>\n

General manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. deserves credit for finding Cryer. <\/p>\n

It’s easy to overlook a 24-year-old rookie who is just 6’0″ tall and doesn’t have traditional point guard passing skills. <\/p>\n

But Dunleavy and the Golden State front office saw past that, and now the Warriors have a rotation guard for cheap for at least the next season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behind 28 points from Kristaps Porzingis and 27 points from Gui Santos, the Golden State Warriors edged the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-684424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-washington","11":"tag-washington-wizards","12":"tag-washingtonwizards","13":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116307886700482133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}