Current injuries and injury history are to be taken into account when voting.


The Monstars

PG: Steph Curry | Lonzo Ball
SG: Jamal Murray | Patrick Beverley
SF: Jimmy Butler | Danilo Gallinari | Royce O'Neale
PF: Jayson Tatum | Jaren Jackson Jr. | Nemanja Bjelica
C: Al Horford | Mitchell Robinson

Strengths:
Three point shooting
- only 3 guys shot below league average in 3P%
- 2 in the top 5 (Steph and Gallinari)
Versatility
- Plethora of 2-way wings (7 players who can play the 2-3 and most defend well!)
Defense
- 10/12 players are plus-defenders (Gallinari and Murray only negatives)
Mix of Youth and Experience
- 7/12 players under 30, 11/12 under 32
Leadership
- Steph and Horford are both known as great locker-room presences with a lot of playoff experience between them

Two greatest indicators of teams making playoffs last season were the ability to hit and defend the three at a high rate, my team excels at both.

4/5 of my bigs can stretch the floor and all 5 are solid defenders. Mitchell Robinson was 2nd in the league in blocked shots at 20 mpg, and will only get better as he grows as a player.

Weakest point in a 3-season league is Al Horford's age, but I believe his stretch 5/tough interior defender game will age well and allow him to still be effective down the line.
+ Jaren Jackson waiting in the wings (has been compared to a young KG)
+ Mitchell Robinson looking like the next Dikembe

Overall: Solid team with very few weaknesses, a lot of growing potential, excellent spacing/scoring, star power, etc.



Team 10

PG: Damian Lillard | Chris Paul | John Wall (Achilles) | Derrick White
SG: DeMar DeRozan | Gary Harris | Jeremy Lamb
SF: Gordon Hayward
PF: Blake Griffin | LaMarcus Aldridge
C:Joel Embiid | Jusuf Nurkic (broken leg)

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Wow this is close because team 1 has absolutely no fucking big man outside of maybe a year and half left of whatever Horford has left, & a sf as their PF in JT...

Team 2 has the strongest C PF Combo in the game right now.but pretty trash set up on SF & ehh on SG. I like Gary Harris tho.

Ima go with Team 2 off of the strength of Embiid Griffin Dame Dolla

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Feel like team 10 would smash the Monstars on both ends.
Griffin + Embiid P&R would destroy Tatum & Horford.
Then you have Lillard + Griffin/Embiid P&R. No chance for Horford & Curry/Murray to stop that.
If Butler switches off to Lillard. DeRozan would smash Curry or Murray.

Harris, DeRozan or Lamb while not optimal could slide up and play the 3.
Also looks like the bench is far more deep for team 10 than the monstars.

While you look at the Nurk injury and think hm well not enough bigs.
Easily team 10 can run a 3 big rotation even at times having Hayward play the 4.
Aldridge played the majority of his minutes this year at Center with Gay coming in and playing the 4.

Lonzo < CP3
Beverly < Harris
Gallo > Lamb
Jackson Jr < Aldridge
Don't need to list the Center as whoever team 10 puts on the court would dominate the Knicks center.

The Monstars only hope is if Curry goes godmode or Tatum actually proves he's not Melo reincarnated.

This post was edited by UnEvilManiac on Aug 13 2019 03:14pm

Voted the team with Lillard and Embiid

What a freezing cold take.. colour me surprised.

Was going to automatically vote for the team with Embiid until I saw that he decided to start Gordon Hayward in a fantasy world when he's not even good enough to start in real life.

Horford along with Gasol is the only person who can somewhat matchup with Embiid.

Throw that scrub Jayson Tatum on the bench and switch in JJJ and this team is much more balanced.

3/4 of these polls are at 10-11 lol

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