Create a starting 5 with current players like the 2004 team

GreekAlex · Post #1 » by **GreekAlex** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:09 am

If you were to construct just a starting 5 like the 2004 championship team with current players who would they be and where would that team rank in the east.

bstein14 · Post #2 » by **bstein14** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:33 am

C: Ben Wallace - DeAndre Jordan
PF: Rasheed Wallace - LaMarcus Alderige
SF: Tayshaun Prince - Jae Crowder
SG: Richard Hamilton - Klay Thompson
PG: Chauncey Billups - Kyle Lowry

#1 in the east, but would still likely not win the championship over the current Warriors.

Pharaoh · Post #3 » by **Pharaoh** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:46 am

bstein14 wrote:C: Ben Wallace - DeAndre Jordan
PF: Rasheed Wallace - LaMarcus Alderige
SF: Tayshaun Prince - Jae Crowder
SG: Richard Hamilton - Klay Thompson
PG: Chauncey Billups - Kyle Lowry

Just to pick 5 different guys:

Gobert
Cousins
Joe Ingles
Hayward
CJ Mac

#Jazzy

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ChuckVanBrown · Post #4 » by **ChuckVanBrown** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:04 am

PG- Mike Conley
SG- Bradley Beal
SF- Robert Covington
PF- LaMarcus Aldridge
C- Rudy Gobert

These guys remind me a little of the Going to Work team, even though they can’t be replicated. No “Superstars” but all these guys are competitive in their position, and as a core group could compete for a title.

bstein14 · Post #5 » by **bstein14** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:11 am

Funny for SG the 3 guys I considered were Klay, Beal, and Hayward... and for Center the obvious choice if you aren't going with DeAndre is Gobert... Gobert is just a bit better offensively than Ben was and not as good of a rebounder as Ben and Jordan so I went with Jordan. Klay does a ton of catch and shoot off screens, but perhaps too I went with him because I've gotten to see a ton of him play the past few years and a lot of his shots off screens remind me of RIP. For me Prince was one of the harder guys to match up because there were 5 or 6 guys that are starting SF's in the league that I thought maybe would be similar to a young Prince in one way or another. I see the Cousins comparison based on the offensive skillset and being a bit of a loose cannon but watching Alderidge in his Portland days really reminded me a lot of what we'd see from Sheed when he decided to play up to his capabilities.

Finn McCool · Post #6 » by **Finn McCool** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:45 am

Clint Capela
Boogie Cousins
DeMarre Carroll
Evan Turner
Kyrie Irving

Pharaoh · Post #7 » by **Pharaoh** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:25 am

Yeah I found Prince the hardest to find a comparison for...

Which is kinda funny when we all consider him to be the "least" important of that five.

I went with Jingles for the Aussie factor and contribution across multiple areas: can hit 3s, pass, cut, defend etc

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jakebernat · Post #8 » by **jakebernat** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:41 am

Kyle Lowry
KCP
Nic Batum
Draymond Green
Clint Capela

Post #9 » by **Cowology** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:18 am

Its interesting people are making Sheed comparisons based on offensive ability, which he never maximized in Detroit. He was however consistently one of the top 2 or 3 post defenders and an over all great team defender with tremendous communication at that end of the floor.

Pharaoh · Post #10 » by **Pharaoh** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:22 am

Cowology wrote:Its interesting people are making Sheed comparisons based on offensive ability, which he never maximized in Detroit. He was however consistently one of the top 2 or 3 post defenders and an over all great team defender with tremendous communication at that end of the floor.

He never maximized his offensive output anywhere though - he didnt want that

A better defending LMA is probably the right comparison.

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sc8581 · Post #11 » by **sc8581** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:13 am

Conley
Beal
Batum
Horford
Capela