Who gains without McDaniels, Zikarsky and Freeman
With McDaniels, Zikarsky and Freeman all three out (7 games like this since last season (he played 4 of them)), Dosunmu played 34 minutes (usually 29) and took 3 more shots than usual; our estimate: 32 minutes (Worth watching).
Zikarsky has missed 9 of the team's last 10, so most of his minutes are already in everyone's recent numbers.
- 34 minutes and 38 fantasy points a game in the 4 games he played with all of them out
- +6 minutes in 5 games without McDaniels alone since last season
- 23 minutes and 23 fantasy points a game in the 7 games he played with all of them out
- +8 minutes in 8 games without McDaniels alone since last season
- −2 minutes in 62 games without Zikarsky alone since last season
- Jaylen Clark13 → 14 min · 4 → 5 shots9 → 12 fpts
- Joan Beringer9 → 9 min · 3 → 4 shots10 → 12 fpts
- Trey Lyles16 → 16 min · 4 → 5 shots13 → 13 fpts
- Terrence Shannon Jr14 → 14 min · 5 → 5 shots10 → 11 fpts
- Jonathan Kuminga29 → 29 min · 11 → 11 shots27 → 27 fpts
- LaMelo Ball26 → 26 min · 14 → 14 shots30 → 30 fpts
- Isaiah Evans2 → 3 min · 1 → 1 shots1 → 1 fpts
- Cody Williams3 → 3 min · 0 → 0 shots0 → 0 fpts
- Zyon Pullin7 → 7 min · 2 → 2 shots6 → 6 fpts
- Rudy Gobert31 → 31 min · 8 → 8 shots32 → 32 fpts
- Donte DiVincenzo30 → 31 min · 11 → 11 shots26 → 24 fpts
- Anthony Edwards35 → 34 min · 24 → 23 shots44 → 41 fpts
How this works, and how often it's rightShowHide
We start from each teammate's recent minutes, shots and fantasy points since last season, then hand out the minutes the missing players have been playing: mostly to whoever came in when each of them left a game, and to whoever played more when each one sat on his own, with a small nudge toward the same position. Minutes a player already lost while someone was out are not counted twice. Shots move with how often each teammate finished plays when none of the missing players were on the floor. When the exact group has sat together 4 or more times, those games count too.
We checked it on 1,183 games in 2025-26 where a team had two or more rotation players out, using only games played before each one. Our minutes were off by 5.2 a player on average in games from February on, against 6.06 using season averages and 9.41 adding up each missing player's own "who gains" numbers. Fantasy points: off by 8.12, against 8.59 and 12.48. Our biggest predicted minutes gainer was one of the night's two biggest gainers 52% of the time (adding up single-player numbers: 37%).
Likely means 6 or more minutes over his usual: 79% of those players really did play at least 2 more. Lean (3.5 to 6 more): 65%. Worth watching (2 to 3.5 more): 52%. Blowouts, foul trouble and coaches' whims make any one night noisy.
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Tap a name to sit him or bring him back- Anthony Edwards35 min · 65 games
- Jaden McDaniels32 min · 79 games
- Rudy Gobert31 min · 82 games
- Donte DiVincenzo30 min · 82 games
- Jonathan Kuminga29 min · 6 games
- Ayo Dosunmu29 min · 30 games
- LaMelo Ball26 min · 6 games
- Bones Hyland16 min · 77 games
- Trey Lyles16 min · 6 games
- Terrence Shannon Jr14 min · 49 games
- Jaylen Clark13 min · 73 games
- Enrique Freeman9 min · 4 games
- Joan Beringer9 min · 46 games
- Rocco Zikarsky7 min · 5 games
- Zyon Pullin7 min · 7 games
- Cody Williams3 min · 4 games
- Isaiah Evans2 min · 4 games
New to the team, no games with them in our sample yet: Norchad Omier, KJ Martin, Antonio Reeves. They will take some of these minutes, and we can't say how many until they play.