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Who wins a 7 game series if every single player involved are at their peaks?

Here are the possible lineups:

1993 Detroit Pistons
PG: Isiah Thomas
SG: Joe Dumars
SF: Mark Aguirre
PF: Dennis Rodman
C: Bill Laimbeer
Bench: Danny Young, Alvin Robertson, Gerald Glass, Terry Mills, Olden Polynice, Jeff Ruland

1993 Orlando Magic
PG: Scott Skiles
SG: Anthony Bowie
SF: Nick Anderson
PF: Tom Tolbert
C: Shaquille O'Neal
Bench: Steve Kerr, Dennis Scott, Donald Royal, Terry Catledge, Jeff Turner, Bison Dele

If this is everyone at their PEAKS, I'd have to go with the Pistons. The Pistons starting 5 has already proven to win a title and now they're adding Prime Alvin Robertson to their backcourt? That's overkill.

Shaq would undoubtedly be the best player on the court, but he won't have enough help.

1993 Pistons had Jeff Ruland and Orlando Woolridge, who were way better than most of the other guys you put on their bench. A peaked version of that team is actually crazy good. 1993 Magic missed the playoffs, and the only improvement here is that Shaq gets to be 7 years older. They have no chance against the Pistons.

onedayattatime wrote:1993 Pistons had Jeff Ruland and Orlando Woolridge, who were way better than most of the other guys you put on their bench. A peaked version of that team is actually crazy good. 1993 Magic missed the playoffs, and the only improvement here is that Shaq gets to be 7 years older. They have no chance against the Pistons.

The thing is, since this is a play-in tournament matchup in retrospect, Woolridge was already moved to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Alvin Robertson coming over to Detroit.

I suppose Ruland would make more sense than Woolridge since Ruland didn't finish the '93 season with another team besides the Pistons, and Woolridge was already replaced with Robertson.

94 Orlando Magic team was

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Not sure how this is even close comparing a team that actually won back to back titles with essentially that same lineup