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NBA chatter around here has been relatively slow for obvious reasons, figured I'd start something up to generate some discussion around historical aspects of basketball.
Build the best lineup possible from all the players in NBA history, with one overall restriction: the player cannot ever have averaged 20+ PPG in a season.
Here's my first lineup:
PG - '94-'95 John Stockton
SG - '14-'15 Kyle Korver
SF - '19-'20 Ben Simmons
PF - '15-'16 Draymond Green
C - '16-'17 Marc Gasol
This unit is all about ball movement. Outside of Korver, all four guys are excellent distributors relative to their position. Korver (.492) had one of the best three point shooting seasons of all time in 2014-15, and Stockton (.449), Green (.388), and Gasol (.388) were far from slouches from the outside in the seasons I chose for them as well. Simmons kills you from the outside but gives you a 'LeBron-lite' kind of player in terms of driving and dishing ability. Simmons, Green, and Gasol are all well above average defenders, Korver was a solid team defender at his peak, and Stockton, while not incredibly physically gifted, wouldn't kill you out there (he also averaged 2.4 SPG in '94-'95).
Your turn, there are plenty of fantastic NBA players out there that actually never averaged 20 PPG in a season if you do a bit of digging.
Build the best lineup possible from all the players in NBA history, with one overall restriction: the player cannot ever have averaged 20+ PPG in a season.
Here's my first lineup:
PG - '94-'95 John Stockton
SG - '14-'15 Kyle Korver
SF - '19-'20 Ben Simmons
PF - '15-'16 Draymond Green
C - '16-'17 Marc Gasol
This unit is all about ball movement. Outside of Korver, all four guys are excellent distributors relative to their position. Korver (.492) had one of the best three point shooting seasons of all time in 2014-15, and Stockton (.449), Green (.388), and Gasol (.388) were far from slouches from the outside in the seasons I chose for them as well. Simmons kills you from the outside but gives you a 'LeBron-lite' kind of player in terms of driving and dishing ability. Simmons, Green, and Gasol are all well above average defenders, Korver was a solid team defender at his peak, and Stockton, while not incredibly physically gifted, wouldn't kill you out there (he also averaged 2.4 SPG in '94-'95).
Your turn, there are plenty of fantastic NBA players out there that actually never averaged 20 PPG in a season if you do a bit of digging.