How would these European national teams do in today's NBA?

[-Luke-]

Let's say these five teams play in the 2022-23 NBA season. Serbia replaces Denver (so that Jokic isn't in the league twice), Germany replaces Orlando (Franz), and Spain, France and Croatia replace three somewhat average teams (let's say Spain = Atlanta, France = Minnesota, Croatia = Pelicans).

Only players who played in the NBA and in seasons they have played in the NBA. Feel free to replace a player with another compatriot or a different version of the same player if you think it fits better. I had to do some mental gymnastics with some of the positions. All teams have an average bench and a good coach.

Spain
2015-16 Ricky Rubio
2007-08 José Calderón
2008-09 Rudy Fernández
2009-10 Pau Gasol
2012-13 Marc Gasol

France
2008-09 Tony Parker
2015-16 Evan Fournier
2012-13 Nic Batum
2008-09 Boris Diaw
2018-19 Rudy Gobert

Germany
2019-20 Dennis Schröder
2022-23 Franz Wagner
1994-95 Detlef Schrempf
2010-11 Dirk Nowitzki
2019-20 Maxi Kleber

Serbia
2017-18 Miloš Teodosić
2020-21 Bogdan Bogdanović
2003-04 Peja Stojakovic
2022-23 Nikola Jokić
1994-95 Vlade Divac

Croatia
1995-96 Toni Kukoč
1992-93 Dražen Petrović
2018-19 Bojan Bogdanović
2019-20 Dario Šarić
1995-96 Dino Radja

How would these teams do? Would they all make the playoffs? What's the best team? Could any of these teams win the title?

[PicPock]

Peja is serbian but you could take Bojan Bogdanovic instead of him. As for Peja, replace him with Jaric.

Imo the best defensive team is France and the best in 3PTs is Serbia, although i will go with Croatia in this one, they have the best in/out game and they are quite average on defense.

[SpreeS]

Where is Lithuania

Jesikevicius
Marciulionis
Kleiza
Sabonis
Sabonis

[IdolW0rm]

I'd rather have Nando de Colo in his CSKA version than Evan Fournier. Also, 06 is clearly Diaw's peak. But they lack shooting and scoring either way and defensively there's no way Gobert can anchor that team to be good. Too many liabilities on the floor.

[-Luke-]

Peja is serbian but you could take Bojan Bogdanovic instead of him. As for Peja, replace him with Jaric.

Imo the best defensive team is France and the best in 3PTs is Serbia, although i will go with Croatia in this one, they have the best in/out game and they are quite average on defense.

Man, that's completely embarrassing with Peja. I've seen him play like 50 times for Serbia(/Montenegro), including in 2001 and 2002. No idea what I was thinking. Sorry about that. I will edit the starting post.

@SpreeS:
I kind of forgot that Jasikevicius played in the NBA. That's a really good team.

[rand]

For Spain, I'd replace Calderon with Garbajosa and slide Rudy to the 2. They'll vastly improve defensively with that adjustment and have someone who can do a credible job defensively vs the league's many great scoring forwards. For France I'd switch the version of Diaw to 2014 and Batum to 2021.

Germany, Serbia and Croatia all suffer from positional balance issues with their lineups. Germany's players' natural positions are 1, 3, 3/4, 4/5 and 4/5. Serbia has two centers. Croatia has a 2, two 3/4s, and two 4/5s. All of these teams are going to be very bad defensively.

I think they're all play-in or better teams except for Croatia. They're going to get both shredded by guards and smashed inside, a really bad combo. Then offensively they have no central creator, no point man. Ranking the teams, I would go:

1. Spain (57 wins). A little bit poor 3pt shooting but otherwise great. Best defense in the league.
2. France (55 wins). Better regular season team than playoff team.
3. Serbia (51 wins). Powerful offense but bad defense.
4. Germany (48 wins). Best offensive team here but would be atrocious defensively.
5. Croatia (35 wins). Need a PG.

Spain would be a title contender. Would have been great to see the prime Gasol bros together in the NBA.