Who gains without McNeeley, Salaün and Williams
With McNeeley, Salaün and Williams all three out (7 games like this since last season (he played 6 of them)), Diabaté played 29 minutes (usually 26) and took 1 more shot than usual; our estimate: 28 minutes (Worth watching).
McNeeley has missed 6 of the team's last 10; Williams has missed 6 of the team's last 10, so most of their minutes are already in everyone's recent numbers.
- 29 minutes and 30 fantasy points a game in the 6 games he played with all of them out
- came in for 22% of the times one of them left a game
- +4 minutes in 34 games without Salaün alone since last season
- −4 minutes in 22 games without Williams alone since last season
- 13 minutes and 11 fantasy points a game in the 7 games he played with all of them out
- Kon Knueppel31 → 33 min · 15 → 15 shots31 → 33 fpts
- Sion James23 → 24 min · 5 → 6 shots14 → 16 fpts
- Ryan Kalkbrenner21 → 22 min · 5 → 5 shots20 → 21 fpts
- Brandon Miller31 → 31 min · 18 → 18 shots34 → 35 fpts
- Naz Reid28 → 28 min · 16 → 17 shots31 → 31 fpts
- Dennis Schröder32 → 32 min · 13 → 13 shots25 → 25 fpts
- Christian Anderson11 → 11 min · 4 → 4 shots7 → 7 fpts
- Royce O'Neale17 → 17 min · 5 → 5 shots10 → 10 fpts
- Hannes Steinbach7 → 7 min · 3 → 3 shots6 → 6 fpts
- Grayson Allen27 → 27 min · 11 → 11 shots21 → 21 fpts
- Coby White19 → 19 min · 13 → 12 shots23 → 22 fpts
- PJ Hall14 → 13 min · 5 → 4 shots14 → 13 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.
Pick players to sit
Tap a name to sit him or bring him back- Dennis Schröder32 min · 6 games
- Kon Knueppel31 min · 81 games
- Brandon Miller31 min · 71 games
- Naz Reid28 min · 6 games
- Grayson Allen27 min · 6 games
- Moussa Diabaté26 min · 79 games
- Sion James23 min · 88 games
- Ryan Kalkbrenner21 min · 75 games
- Grant Williams20 min · 36 games
- Coby White19 min · 21 games
- Royce O'Neale17 min · 6 games
- Tidjane Salaün15 min · 42 games
- PJ Hall14 min · 14 games
- Liam McNeeley11 min · 34 games
- Christian Anderson11 min · 6 games
- Pat Connaughton7 min · 42 games
- Hannes Steinbach7 min · 2 games
New to the team, no games with them in our sample yet: Michael Ajayi, Jarkel Joiner, Wyatt Fricks, Kylan Boswell. They will take some of these minutes, and we can't say how many until they play.