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ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:36 pm
by Sloanfeld
http://espn.go.com/espn/greatestteam/in ... wteam=true

Memo over Eaton? No way. We already have plenty of offense in that lineup. Our picks are pretty obvious though.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:53 pm
by edfmx86
crazy that memo is ahead of Eaton. Eaton would be the second best center in the league if he played right now

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:11 pm
by mjvile
Yea that is crazy, but I would not go as far as saying he would be the second best player in the league right now. He would be one of the best defensively but not over all. It just shows that fans are more interested in the art of scoring and not the art of defense.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:29 am
by Ming Kong!
Easily Stockton/Maravich/Dantley/Malone/Eaton

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:03 am
by Sloanfeld
They should do a tournament where people vote on which five would beat each five. I'm thinking about this and we have a readlly solid all around roster. The Lakers, Celtics, 76ers, Spurs, and us are probably the best all-around franchise five.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:13 am
by The59Sound
Can't fathom how 8% chose Deron.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:02 am
by Sloanfeld
The59Sound wrote:Can't fathom how 8% chose Deron.


n00bs :roll:

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:27 am
by kerplunk
Ming Kong! wrote:Easily Stockton/Maravich/Dantley/Malone/Eaton

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:41 pm
by MeestR
lol at jeff malone finishing ahead of both griffith and horny. oh and big T not even on pf list? he would be my number 2.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:08 pm
by seejaydeja
Ming Kong! wrote:Easily Stockton/Maravich/Dantley/Malone/Eaton


Thank you, come again.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:32 pm
by edfmx86
mjvile wrote:Yea that is crazy, but I would not go as far as saying he would be the second best player in the league right now. He would be one of the best defensively but not over all. It just shows that fans are more interested in the art of scoring and not the art of defense.


not second best player, but second best center. The only guys I can think of being better than him are Dwight and maybe Yao. Maybe my homer goggles are on too tight tho...

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:01 am
by BarneyGumble
You know you have a pretty storied franchise when Deron Williams, even if he was as good as he is now for 10 more years, is no lock to make the squad. I really hope he can lead us to a title and start to challenge John for a few votes.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:12 pm
by FJS
Eaton fit the best with the other players, but Okur is definitebely a better player.
Okur cannot dream to defense like Eaton, but Eaton cannot dream to score like Okur.

I mean, Okur is a bad defender, but he is able to defend pretty well people like Duncan or Yao. Eaton never would drop 43 as Okur has done. Okur was able to make 5 blocks in a night, to grab 18 reb, or steal 4.
I know, he is not consistent, but Eaton never would score like Okur, he does not have his offensive moves. With Dantley, who never shot the 3, Okur would be apreciate.

I chose Eaton, because he fit better in a ultraoffensive team, but I can see why some people chose Eaton, because I think Okur was the better player, but Eaton give something strange those days.

When we had Ostertag and Eaton, we thought that a Okur type of player would be what we needed.

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:28 pm
by xenith
memo is better player then eaton and my choose is ostertag :)

Re: ESPN's Franchise Five

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:05 am
by erudite23
Eaton was one of the 5 worst offensive players in the league during his time with the Jazz. He wasn't just bad, he was terrible. He made 'Tag look like Hakeem. He was atrociously, despicably bad. You played 4 on 5 when he was on the floor. Memo isn't nearly as bad a defender as Eaton was an offensive player. Course, Eaton's defense was better than Memo's offense. Overall, I think Memo is the better player by a slim margin, though I would probably take Eaton for this Jazz team.