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Team Wes Mantooth
Stephen Curry-Chauncey Billups
Dwayne Wade-Bradley Beal
Paul Pierce-Jaylen Brown
Chris Webber-Pascal Siakam
Alonzo Mourning-Rasheed Wallace
Team silesian
Point Rotation: Magic Johnson (40), Sidney Moncrief (8)
Wing Rotation: Sidney Moncrief (32), Rick Barry (32), Danny Green (16), Michael Cooper (16)
Big rotation: Kareem Abdul Jabbar (40), Shawn Marion (36), Al Horford (20)
silesian write-up
Outside rotation role players, selectively used depending on match-ups: Jamaal Wilkes and Shane Battier
This team was built around the best and most successful point guard in NBA history and the best and most successful Center in NBA history:
Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson. Number 3 and 5 on ESPN’s greatest NBA players of all time.
I've added complementary players to Kareem and Magic to create a Showtime Lakers team "on steroids". Here is the team philosophy:
(1) It starts with an elite and athletic defense that generates turnovers and creates low percentage shots….
***2 DPOY wings: Moncrief and Cooper, 7 All NBA defense: add Green, Wilkes, Battier, Horford, Jabbar plus Marion, The Matrix, an elite defender of all 5 positions.***
(2) …Low field goal percentage leads to many defensive rebounding opportunities so you add great rebounders to control the defensive boards and get the outlet to Magic…
***Peak Rebounding seasons: Kareem (16.9), Marion (11.8), Horford (10.2), Magic (9.6), Moncrief (6.7), Wilkes (8.8)***
(3) Magic orchestrates the break and places pinpoint passes to athletic and elite finishers for easy buckets….
***Elite finishers: Marion (7 seconds or less Suns), Moncrief, Wilkes, Cooper***
(4) … or distributes to three point spot-up snipers...
***Peak season 3P%: Green (.455), Battier (.430), Horford (.429), Marion (.387), Cooper (.387), Barry was best shooter in league so you can imagine him in today’s 3 point game***
(5) Complementing Plan A (Magic runs you out of the gym), Plan B is the added bonus of having the talent to execute an efficient half-court offense.
***This starts with the most unstoppable shot in NBA history, Kareem’s sky hook. And add to this spacing from many excellent 3P shooters creates lanes for Magic, Moncrief, Barry and others to exploit spacing that they never experienced in their eras***
Intangibles: (1) Magic is the undisputed alpha dog and team leader; (2) four showtime Lakers provide built-in chemistry; (3) Showtime Laker's bigs are upgraded from Kurt Rambis and Mitch Kupchak to Marion and Horford, would be fun to watch.
So while other teams have added redundancy with (for example) multiple elite isolation scorers (and one ball), this team was constructed to a consistent team concept that will win, built around Magic and Kareem.
Stephen Curry-Chauncey Billups
Dwayne Wade-Bradley Beal
Paul Pierce-Jaylen Brown
Chris Webber-Pascal Siakam
Alonzo Mourning-Rasheed Wallace
Team silesian
Point Rotation: Magic Johnson (40), Sidney Moncrief (8)
Wing Rotation: Sidney Moncrief (32), Rick Barry (32), Danny Green (16), Michael Cooper (16)
Big rotation: Kareem Abdul Jabbar (40), Shawn Marion (36), Al Horford (20)
silesian write-up
Outside rotation role players, selectively used depending on match-ups: Jamaal Wilkes and Shane Battier
This team was built around the best and most successful point guard in NBA history and the best and most successful Center in NBA history:
Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson. Number 3 and 5 on ESPN’s greatest NBA players of all time.
I've added complementary players to Kareem and Magic to create a Showtime Lakers team "on steroids". Here is the team philosophy:
(1) It starts with an elite and athletic defense that generates turnovers and creates low percentage shots….
***2 DPOY wings: Moncrief and Cooper, 7 All NBA defense: add Green, Wilkes, Battier, Horford, Jabbar plus Marion, The Matrix, an elite defender of all 5 positions.***
(2) …Low field goal percentage leads to many defensive rebounding opportunities so you add great rebounders to control the defensive boards and get the outlet to Magic…
***Peak Rebounding seasons: Kareem (16.9), Marion (11.8), Horford (10.2), Magic (9.6), Moncrief (6.7), Wilkes (8.8)***
(3) Magic orchestrates the break and places pinpoint passes to athletic and elite finishers for easy buckets….
***Elite finishers: Marion (7 seconds or less Suns), Moncrief, Wilkes, Cooper***
(4) … or distributes to three point spot-up snipers...
***Peak season 3P%: Green (.455), Battier (.430), Horford (.429), Marion (.387), Cooper (.387), Barry was best shooter in league so you can imagine him in today’s 3 point game***
(5) Complementing Plan A (Magic runs you out of the gym), Plan B is the added bonus of having the talent to execute an efficient half-court offense.
***This starts with the most unstoppable shot in NBA history, Kareem’s sky hook. And add to this spacing from many excellent 3P shooters creates lanes for Magic, Moncrief, Barry and others to exploit spacing that they never experienced in their eras***
Intangibles: (1) Magic is the undisputed alpha dog and team leader; (2) four showtime Lakers provide built-in chemistry; (3) Showtime Laker's bigs are upgraded from Kurt Rambis and Mitch Kupchak to Marion and Horford, would be fun to watch.
So while other teams have added redundancy with (for example) multiple elite isolation scorers (and one ball), this team was constructed to a consistent team concept that will win, built around Magic and Kareem.