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01-08-2008, 08:05 PM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
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Bullets/Wizards
Only counting the players who were good when actually on the team.( Thus no Wallace, Ben nor Rasheed.)
C: Wes Unseld/Gheorghe Muresan
PF:Chris Webber/Juwan Howard
SF:Elvin Hayes/Bernard King/Tom Gugliotta
SG:Rip Hamilton/Phil Cheneir/Jeff Malone
PG:Earl Monroe/Rod Strickland
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no way Elvin can play SF, he was a pure post player at both ends. Gugliotta did play SF but was more effective at the PF.
C: Bellamy/Unseld/Moses (Bells was dominant before ballooning)
PF: Hayes/Ruland/Webber(Webber could have been better but he was such a ***** here, played much better with the Kings)
SF: Dandridge/Bernard King/Caron Butler (need the D more than the great scoring, Jordan should be on the list here but ...)
SG: Jordan/Chenier/Malone (lot of pure shooters other than MJ)
PG: Arenas/Monroe/Kevin Porter (KP much superior to Strickland in everything but shooting and was a team guy besides)
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01-08-2008, 08:13 PM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
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Put together the best lineup from throughout the history of one of your favorite teams. Not just in terms of individual accolades or raw talent, but with some thought to how the players would actually mesh together. I'd love to hear some cases for which franchises have the richest historical talent pools - a good debate could result in some suprises.
Here are my Denver Nuggets, near and dear to my heart since the mid-70's...
C: Dikembe Mutombo/Marcus Camby
PF: Antonio McDyess/Dan Issel/Calvin Natt
SF: Alex English/Carmelo Anthony
SG: Allen Iverson/Ralph Simpson
PG: Lafayette Lever/Andre Miller/Nick Van Exel
Hard to leave off: David Thompson, Bobby Jones, Kiki Vandeweghe, Wayne Cooper, T.R. Dunn, LaPhonso Ellis
I know it's crazy to omit Skywalker from any all-time Nuggets team, but I do NOT want he and Iverson in the same building. They have similarly high usage rates, and Iverson brings better playmaking, ballhandling, and (arguably) team defense. Plus, I'd like to see what a 3-guard rotation of Lever, Iverson and Simpson could do. Lever and Simpson each would give AI a bigger, stronger backcourt teammate, and Lever especially is a notable defender who played both guard positions.
I've got Anthony and Issel as the instant offense coming off the bench, since McDyess is a much better defender than the Horse and I think English has a slight edge due to his passing and shooting. But the forwards could play in various combination based on the matchup. And Natt is there to muscle up on and stare down the opposing team's bangers, since the Nuggets were never one of the tougher franchises in the game.
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Replace McDyess who never quite lived up to the hype with Bobby Jones who brought more defense, passing, high percentage shooting, and court intelligence at a cost of a little rebounding. Put Thompson (pre-drugs) at SG, he was a much more efficient scorer than Iverson, much better rebounder, even better wing defender with his height and athleticism . . . Iverson can be the spark off the bench where his lack of pure PG skills and SG size won't be as harmful replacing Nick Van Excel who brings a similar package.
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01-09-2008, 07:14 AM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
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PG - Magic Johnson / Jerry West;
SG - Kobe Bryant / Gail Goodrich;
SF - Elgin Baylor / James Worthy;
PF - ??? Happy Hairston? Rydy Larusso? A.C. Green? Vern Mikkelsen?
C - Kareem Abdul-JAbbar / Shaquille O'Neal.
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I'd play it this way...
PG: Magic/West/Slater Martin
SG: Kobe/Goodrich
SF: Baylor/Worthy
PF: Hairston/Mikan (guy deserves to be somewhere on here, and he'd still have good size for a PF today)
C: Shaq/Kareem/Wilt (less of a scorer with the Lakers but still an awesome rebounder and defender)
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01-09-2008, 07:34 AM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
Howzabout the Mavericks?
C: Shawn Bradley/Roy Tarpley
PF: Dirk Nowitzki/Sam Perkins
SF: Mark Aguirre/Jamal Mashburn
SG: Michael Finley/Rolando Blackman/Jim Jackson
PG: Jason Kidd/Steve Nash/Derek Harper
Honorable Mention: Josh Howard/James Donaldson/Nick Van Exel/Brad Davis/Jay Vincent/Popeye Jones/Adrian Dantley
The Mavericks are one of those franchises have been notoriously thin in the paint for just about all of their existence. Nowitzki is the only truly notable big man. (Ah, Tarpley...if only.)
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01-12-2008, 11:26 PM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
Chicago Bulls
PG- BJ Armstrong / Steve Kerr
SG- Michael Jordan / MJ lol
SF- Scottie Pippen / Ron Artest
PF- Bob Love / Dennis Rodman
C- Artis Gilmore / Tom Boerwinkle
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01-13-2008, 12:00 AM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
Sacramento Kings...not going to include Kansas City, Cincinnati, or Rochester.
C: Vlade Divac, Brad Miller
PF: Chris Webber, Wayman Tisdale, Brian Grant
SF: Peja Stojakovic, Corliss Williamson
SG: Mitch Richmond, Doug Christie
PG: Mike Bibby, Reggie Theus, Jason Williams
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01-13-2008, 05:43 PM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
damn, I'd include em, that's not much of a squad . . . .include em
C Vlade Divac, Sam Lacey
PF Jerry Lucas, Chris Webber
SF Jack Twyman, Peja Stojakovic
SG Mich Richmond, Kevin Martin
PG Oscar Robertson, Nate Archibald
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01-13-2008, 06:51 PM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
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Chicago Bulls
PG- BJ Armstrong / Steve Kerr
SG- Michael Jordan / MJ lol
SF- Scottie Pippen / Ron Artest
PF- Bob Love / Dennis Rodman
C- Artis Gilmore / Tom Boerwinkle
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I'd round that squad out with Reggie Theus and Horace Grant.
In terms of overall talent I'd take Hirk Hinrich over either of the PGs you've got listed there, although BJ and Kerr certainly proved they could play off Jordan well. Ben Gordon can come off the bench at SG.
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01-13-2008, 07:23 PM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
ESPN did this a while back. The Lakers ended up winning.
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01-14-2008, 08:05 AM
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Re: Best lineup possible for your team
Looks like ESPN used only 16 teams, and relied on "fan voting" which allows for a big popularity factor. Kind of hard to imagine the Lakers not winning under those circumstances.
Voting on this board would at least get you a high degree of informed opinion and some spirited debate. It would also be a blast to run the games through a sophisticated simulation like Strat-O-Matic or whatifsports.com.
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01-14-2008, 08:17 AM
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