Sacramento Kings: Analyzing the various lineups the team could use
3. Big
De’Aaron Fox, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Nemanja Bjelica, Richaun Holmes, Dewayne Dedmon
Bjelica’s ability to play SF-C is what unlocks this lineup. He is a versatile player at 6-foot-10, able to guard small forwards adequately. Richaun Holmes is also a versatile player, and while in today’s NBA he is more suited to playing center, he is mobile enough to guard power forwards.
He can then punish them on the other end with his fantastic lob-catching ability making him a major threat to small lineups in pick-and-roll scenarios.
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Bogdanovic and Fox can share ball-handling duties and are both versatile offensive players, on or off-ball. Both can shoot fairly efficiently to provide a little floor spacing — along with Bjelica — to open up room for their two bigs to run pick-and-roll or post-up.
Traditionally, big lineups slow the game down, but this would actually be a great lineup for the Kings’ trademark rapid offense.
Both Dedmon and Holmes are great at rim-running, so they would get up the floor quick to finish buckets in transition and draw defenders away from Bjelica, Fox, and Bogdanovic for easy transition three-pointers.