PG: Shai Gilgeous Alexander 25' - 21.8 - OKC
SG: Clyde Drexler 91' - 16.3 - Portland
SF: Jaylen Brown 18' - 11.5 - Third pick
PF: PJ Tucker 18' - 5.4 - Houston
C: Anthony Davis 20' - 17.7 - Lakers
Bench: Pablo Prigioni 13' - 3.0 - Knicks
Bench: Andrei Kirilenko 09' - 8.5 - All Star turned bench
Bench: Reggie Evans 07' - 3.3 - Nuggets
PG: Shai Gilgeous Alexander 38 / Pablo Prigioni 10
SG: Clyde Drexler 38 / Jaylen Brown 8 / Pablo Prigioni 2
SF: Jaylen Brown 30 / Andrei Kirilenko 18
PF: PJ Tucker 34 / Andrei Kirilenko 14
C: Anthony Davis 38 / Reggie Evans 10
87.5/88
Vs
PG: Brunson (38) / Ainge (10)
SG: Elie (38) / Ainge (10)
SF: Jones (38) / Harkless (10)
PF: Durant (38) / Harkless (10)
C: Embiid (38) / Andersen (10)
Matchup - Defensive assignments: SGA vs EJ, Brown vs Brunson, Drexler vs Elie, Tucker vs Durant, Davis vs Embiid.
- We got zero weak points defensively, and a highly switchable squad just like Shai's OKC. We've got a superb guard-wing defensive rotation anchored by Davis at the rim, and we can throw SGA Brown Drexler Prigioni Tucker Kirilenko at Brunson, and Tucker Kirilenko Davis Brown at Durant.
- Our offense has an excellent mix of creation and spacing: SGA and Drexler can each collapse a defense and create tons of ways to score, AD is an elite option on his own with pick-and-roll gravity and midrange spacing, and young Jaylen Brown gives us a Jalen Williams-lite secondary creator who slashes and keeps pressure on the rim; with SGA, Brown, and Tucker spacing the floor around AD’s inside-out game, defenses can’t load up, and we’ve got two elite go-to options in SGA and Davis backed by Drexler’s dynamic scoring; Kirilenko adds connective passing and off-ball value as the best sixth man in the matchup, Evans provides second-chance opportunities without needing touches, and overall we bring enough shooting, transition firepower, and versatile creators to generate efficient looks all game.
- We've got the clear best sixth man in Kirilenko.
