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Assuming all players are at their level of play RIGHT NOW, which team would you take?

CURRENTS (10 deep)
C - Erick Dampier / Malik Allen
PF - Dirk Nowitzki / Brandon Bass
SF - Josh Howard / Devean George
SG - Jerry Stackhouse / Jason Terry (Eddie Jones is injured)
PG - Jason Kidd / Tyrone Lue
Coach - Avery Johnson

BIZARROS (10 deep)
C - DeSagana Diop / Kevin Willis
PF - Antawn Jamison / Antoine Walker
SF - Michael Finley / Eddie Najera
SG - Raja Bell / Sam Cassell
PG - Steve Nash / Devin Harris
Coach - Don Nelson

Thoughts:
* Neither team has good centers, especially on offense.
* The currents have the PF/SF edge. But Jamison is not bad either, and Finley is a playoffs warrior. However, normally Dirk & JHO >> Jamison and Finley.
* PG play is a tie, both are HOFers with flaws: Nash's defense is just as suspect as Kidd's shooting. Both are GREAT passers and know how to win games and series.
* Bench is a bit tilted towards the currents: Terry and Bass bring a lot of scoring punch, but Cassell is a clutch shooter, and Najera is a good sparkplug from the bench. Walker can win and lose games by himself.
* Both have players who know how to win rings (Cassell, Finley + Lue, George), but not as main players.
* Don Nelson outcoaches Avery Johnson. If the Bizarros go run and gun (perfect if you have Nellie + Diop / Jamison / Bell / Nash), slow Damp will be sacrificed for Bass, reducing interior D to almost zero.

I think it would be an interesting matchup, but I pick the real Mavs in 6. (Homecourt would be moot, as all 7 games will be played in DAL :X)

since paintforward is my favourit poster and i think, the topic is a nice one, I will try to evaluate the matchup:

It's really tough and I'd love to see the Nash-Jamison...Finley is washed up and Diop slows the team down...i like the 3 PG's but they need to play them at the SG in order to give them minutes...other than the 2 PG's the bench isnt very good (I love Willis but he is too old)

The current team obvisiously has a nice Kidd-howard-dirk trio with not much to surround them: I dont like Stack and Damp and the bench is weak too and only Terry can deliver

after all i feel the current squad has better defense with howard, dirk and damp and the "has beens team" would love to trade one of their PG's for another wing or insideplayer!

...its hard to bet against nelly and probably he would start Jamison at center and all 3 PG's on the floor at the same time but finaly I have to go with the current team in 6.

mudyez wrote:since paintforward is my favourit poster

mudyez wrote:and i think, the topic is a nice one, I will try to evaluate the matchup:

It's really tough and I'd love to see the Nash-Jamison...Finley is washed up and Diop slows the team down...i like the 3 PG's but they need to play them at the SG in order to give them minutes...other than the 2 PG's the bench isnt very good (I love Willis but he is too old)

The current team obvisiously has a nice Kidd-howard-dirk trio with not much to surround them: I dont like Stack and Damp and the bench is weak too and only Terry can deliver

after all i feel the current squad has better defense with howard, dirk and damp and the "has beens team" would love to trade one of their PG's for another wing or insideplayer!

...its hard to bet against nelly and probably he would start Jamison at center and all 3 PG's on the floor at the same time but finaly I have to go with the current team in 6.

Thanks for the writeup. I also think that the currents play more D (*cough*) but Nellie is a nasty X-factor. He simply has Avery's number. But still, currents in 6.

(I was also thinking of the Spurs, but I decided that TD, Parker, Manu would pretty much own Robinson, Cummings and Porter)