Going back further, the lack of chemistry in the first season of Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo playing together in Milwaukee was palpable, as they hardly even ran pick-and-roll together; that partnership has become much more potent. Similarly, any semblance of the Dončić-LeBron James two-man game has been MIA since Dončić joined the Lakers. The good news for L.A. is that the worst parts of this effect are on the earliest games together, as you might expect. The presenters’ charts showed a sharp curve over the first several shots that flattened over time but whose slope never quite reached zero. In other words, it’s still probably marginally helpful that Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum are building even more chemistry in Year 8 together, but vastly greater gains are available for recently thrown-together teammates like Dončić and James.