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No. Not enough defense.
Paul
Roy
Melo
Dirk
Timmy
That did not include any laker players. Could you assemble a team that could beat the current lakers?
Rules are your starters can only be starters from other teams. In fact to keep it simple lets just go with a starting lineup.
If you must create a bench, suck it and pick a sixth man...
Last edited by pauls931; 12-08-2009 at 08:32 AM.
No. Not enough defense.
Paul
Roy
Melo
Dirk
Timmy
Are you kidding?
I hate to say it but, get off the Lakers nuts. This is absurd. You act like we're the dream team.
This Lakers team would beat the 04 Olympic Dream/Joke Team losers.
Just because you have a bunch of talent doesn't mean you're automatically going to play well together.
Enough defense with Yao, TD, Melo, Roy, Paul. Bynum is Yao's .
Yao doesn't guard the pick and roll well.
I don't care who in the West you're putting out there against Lakers - still not stopping the Gasol/Bynum and Kobe pick and roll.
Deron
Roy
Carmelo
Dirk
Timmy
I give this a +1.
Only when Yao makes like an upright piano.
Kidd
Ross
Marion
Dirk
Dampier
They already kicked the out of the Lakers.
Too bad you didn't have 'em in the Summer of '06, in south Florida, eh?
tee, hee.
Without Pau.
Just move the Bobcats to the west and there you go
Without Howard
Pau is light years better and more important than J Ho.
Prove it.
Yep, Gore thought he was the tough guy, then old man Bush & Sons took him out to the Glades and left him.
Make no mistake, he had it comin'.
Seriously, I got no beef getting beat by the Mavs. We got beat. It happens. Ross is going to have to be accounted for in the equation.
Citing injuries is weak & puny. I won't do it. It's my religion.
Chris Paul
Shane Battier
Carmelo Anthony
Dirk
Duncan
w/ Deron Williams off the bench
Given LA's weakness against quick PG's, you kinda need to put a speedy PG as good as Paul on the team if it's who would be best against the Lakers. You figure he could have a few monster games against Fisher and Farmar.
You can't have a team full of ball dominators, you actually need a team that can play well together. Battier defends Kobe better than anyone in the West and is a great team player, so I put him in the lineup. Brandon Roy is a better player than Battier but has the ball in his hands all the time and can't co-exist with a star PG or star SF. The one problem here is Kobe won't have to work very hard on the defensive end.
Melo is the obvious SF just based on how well he usually does against LA. Yeah Artest can guard him better than Ariza can but the size advantage he had on Ariza isn't much bigger than the quickness advantage he has on Ron.
Dirk has always gotten the better of Pau Gasol in H2H matchups, mostly cause he's the better player. He's also an above average pick and roll defender with more than enough size to limit Pau. I almost put Scola here but the offensive gap was too much to ignore.
The West is so weak at center so I had to put a PF here (). Duncan is great on offense no matter who's guarding him, however the physical advantages Bynum has on him (50 pounds, 2 inches, more athleticism, younger legs) could be a problem.
Deron hopefully would carry the 2nd unit and destroy whoever is guarding him.
There really isn't a lineup in the West you could look at and know would dominate LA simply cause they have the best player regardless, and the thing about basketball is having the best player on the court automatically gives you at least a decent shot at winning the game.
Definitely would be a better team than the Lakers.
But I don't think you even need a team of all perennial all stars to put up a team that would be very compe ive and have a good chance. Just a well balanced team, one main scorer, a good lead guard, a very good perimeter defender, and size and strength up front.
Billups
Durant
Ariza
Nene
Kaveman
I think you would need a scorer at PF or C to get some high percentage shots.
It's a shame Amare sucks so much at defense or he'd be my pick at PF given his athleticism advantage over Pau. Since the Lakers got good again, he's been great against them as a power forward and horrible against them without Shaq ensuring Bynum isn't guarding Amare.
Josh Howard = Pau Gasol
Have to have a speedy PG to torch Fisher, so Paul is the obvious choice. Maybe Nash in there, but he has a tendency to choke vs. Lakers and a virtual zero on D. Kobe is obviously gonna ballhog so I like bringing in Battier to single cover his shots. Durant or Carmello in at the 3 as the primary offensive weapon. I'd have to double check to see who performs better vs. Artest d. For big men, I would bring in one offensive and one defensive, maybe Okafor and Yao. Why are we only picking players from the west?
Make sure Battier brings his "Stop Kobe" binder along with him. Have Ariza carry it.
tee, hee.
Well, my lineup would have been, I try not to make the team too godly. Laker fans might get y and think that only stacked teams with all-stars can beat them.
PG: Aaron Brooks (Just cause he is fast and owned Fisher when it comes to scoring.)
SG: Shane Battier (Another Rocket who can guard Kobe, but Kobe usually tries to go for 40 against Battier, I hope his 3 point shot is still good enough.)
SF: Carmelo Anthony (The leading NBA scorer can match Bryant point for point when it matters the most.)
PF: Tim Duncan (An anchor for my defense and can create offense in the post, with Brooks' limited PG abilities, he can just pass the ball to Timmy.
C: Greg Oden (Before the injury, he was the anchor for the Blazers' defense when he was on the court, his development led to a drastic improvement in defense for the Blazers this season despite the loss of perimeter defender Batum.)
I think this team can beat the Lakers, it does not really have to be stacked. If you like, you could replace Brooks with another fast PG who can score and defend without needing the ball on his hands too much, but I digress.
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