copy-paste one player 5x to make a good team

[chitowndish]

Scottie Pippen

Pippen is a great choice I would love to see 5 Magic vs 5 Pippen. Also someone mentioned KD and 5 KD vs 5 Bird would be pretty crazy one that would be fun to watch.

[basketballto]

Scotty Barnes played every position last year. I think he was best at sg.

Lebron has played every position.

Some version of Ben Simmons

Curry you give up 2 points in the paint but make it up trading threes

[akula1488]

Russell Westbrook. Fast break after fast break

[pookenstein]

5 Wembys would be unbeatable. Especially if they just played a 3-2 zone on D.

[Mamba4Goat]

I would like to enter Jaden McDaniels into the conversation.

[DreamTeam09]

It's hard. LeBron is the only real answer IMO.

The LeBron clones on offence (guys who can do almost everything), like Jokic, Luka, Harden, etc. are slow and don't play defence.

Other guys who are really good individual players (Jordan, Kobe, Hakeem, Duncan, etc.) are too small or too big to play every position and don't have enough offensive versatility.

I'd probably try it with one of the big, offensively versatile wings like Luka or Harden.

C MJ doesn't care about C Lebron and PF MJ offensively is better than PF Lebron. His leg up is at PG I guess

[dk1115]

Prime Kevin Durant is the ultimate copy pasta player. Prime LeBron > Prime Durant, but 2x Prime Durant > 2x Prime LeBron.

[Lalouie]

ive been thinking about the idea of "complete" players lately. by this I mean players who can do everything it takes to win games, regardless of the personnel around them. so my mind wandered to this question. if you could have a team with 5x of the same player on it, which player would make the best team using only the skillset contained within that one player?

as an example/hypothetical to illustrate: lets say you pick prime lebron. that means you have a team with prime lebron at PG, SG, SF, PF, and C. he has to bring the ball up, pass, score, rebound, play defense, etc.

and lets say we had a big tournament with all these "one player teams" playing against each other, assuming perfect health, no injury potential, no salary cap or financial constraints or whatever. who wins?

i know, i know, this is an offseason thread. but all the discussion here about players and the holes in their games as we watch the playoffs has me wondering who the most complete players we've seen are. prime lebron seems obvious, which is why i used him in the example. who are some others?

larry bird can do everything,,,add his height and rebounding and deft passing

lebron is an example of 5x won't work. he is too heliocentric. you'd have to ask the other 4 lebrons to give up the ball and they wouldn't. i'll take 5x jokic or 5x tatum instead

5x havlicek
5x kawhi

they all generally have to be wings,,,,,,,,,,,,,except jokic maybe walton

[freestyler34]

Caruso
Caruso
Caruso
Caruso
Caruso

[The Master]

Prime Kevin Durant is the ultimate copy pasta player. Prime LeBron > Prime Durant, but 2x Prime Durant > 2x Prime LeBron.

LeBron is actually much less helicocentric and much better as an offball scorer than typical ball-dominant perimeter players (Nash, CP3, Doncic, Nash, Harden, Wade), he has 38% of assisted field goals in his career, Bryant had 40%, Tatum has 43% - normally on-ball creators-scorers have 20-30%.

You just have to choose the version of LeBron consistent as a spot up shooter.

[Sixers in 4]

A healthy Kawhi could play any position and defend.

He is definitely not a PG or Center.

He could play 5 in a small ball lineup and their games actually compliment each other. You don't have 5 guys looking to pass every possession or looking to score. Is he going to be able to defend shaq? No but 5 shaqs would get cooked by 5 kawhis.

The other guy would be magic Johnson but the advantages he had then wouldn't be the same guys are much better athletes.

[bledredwine]

Wilt
Wilt
Wilt
Wilt
Wilt

[zimpy27]

LeBron

[Myth]

Imagine a whole team, including a bench, of Draymonds. They’d beat the snot out of you and if one gets ejected for it, he is just replaced by another Draymond.

[MightyMouse10]

Outside of the obvious or already named, assuming prime;

charles barkley
jimmy butler
rasheed wallace
Dirk Nowitzki
prime iguodala
prime deron williams
banchero

[jojo4341]

Imagine a whole team, including a bench, of Draymonds. They’d beat the snot out of you and if one gets ejected for it, he is just replaced by another Draymond.

Or a team of Bill Laimbeers or Charles Oakleys. I also wonder how a team of Rodmans would do. Elite, annoying defense at every position and you'd probably lose the rebounding battle. But would they score enough?

[Bolivar]

Imagine a whole team, including a bench, of Draymonds. They’d beat the snot out of you and if one gets ejected for it, he is just replaced by another Draymond.

Imagine being the referee crew with 5-15 Draymonds going at you non-stop

[art_tatum]

5 Wembys would be unbeatable. Especially if they just played a 3-2 zone on D.

Would beat the goats.
Prime Lebron isn't a good enough shooter to compensate.

Maybe prime shaq or joker has a chance to out muscle wemby but shaq lacks speed and shooting, or athleticism/speed in jokers case, and they would lose against other teams.

Only 5 prime kds have a decent shot.

[walk with me]

If we’re ignoring health Embiid deserves to be in this convo

Kawhi
Embiid
KD
Bron
Wemby
Siakim
Bam
Giannis
Amen

Slow to go man? I’m thinking just go zone.

He’s probably be the difficult match up both ways but he would get killed in the break by a Bron team.


Embiid is way too slow

[flranger]

Thinking Grant Hill, McGrady, or Dr. J would be sweet

The passive aggressiveness of five Lebron's would be intolerable, they would try to have each other traded by the All-Star break