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A specialty player. You can pick up one player for your startup team that can only do one thing GREAT and is average to below average in the other categories.

For example:

Big man 1: 9 ppg, 16 rpg, 2 apg 1 bpg

Big man 2: 9 ppg, 8rpg, 4.5 bpg, 2apg

Wing man 1: 26 ppg, 4 rpg, 2 apg, 1 spg

Wing man 2: 9 ppg, 4 rpg, 13 apg, 1 spg

So basically would you rather have the player thats extrordinary at scoring, rebounding, blocking, or assiting ? I would have to go with the scorer with assist person being the second and rebounding third.

Wing Man 2; probably a Chris Paul/Deron Williams/Jason Kidd type player.

Assist man would by far lead the league with 13 apg in this day and age, and assists usually aren't the kind of stats one can earn cheaply. Same deal with rebound man with 16 rpg, you're talking about Rodman DPOY numbers. 26 ppg is awesome, but it'd only be 4th in the league this year, and if you put Michael Redd on the Nuggets he'd probably get that, so it's not automatically a sign of greatness. Neither is 4.5 blocks, even though it'd lead the league, because it could be attained by a Manute Bol type, or a Marcus Camby type who doesn't actually play great defense.

So...

1. Assists man
2. Rebounds man
3. Points man
4. Blocks man

13 assists sounds like the most useful, but if that player's only scoring 9 points it sounds like he's very limited. It would be a very unusual player. A Nate McMillan or Muggsy Bogues taken to an extreme.

The best overall player might be the one who grabs 16 rebounds. Do that in today's NBA and you're doing something right.

Ehh, for some reason when I see 9 points 13 assists I see Brevin Knight.

I'll take the block guy or the rebound guy because having a dominant big man that can do either of those is the real deal.

Probably the block guy.

I'll take the big man 2, someone like that can really change your defense, and will most likely be the anchor of your defense, players like that are "on defense" are Deke, Hakeem, D rob, etc.

The ppg guy needs to be higher, you see guys average 26 a game often, but how long has it been since someone averaged 16 boards a game, or 4.5 blocks a game, or 13 assists a game?

If not the scorer is clearly last.

big man 1.

Shot blocker. If you lose the scorer, rebounder, or passer, usually at least a good portion of their points, rebounds, or assists will go to someone else. (That is, someone else will fill the void because collecting those stats are almost as much about opportunity as about skill.)

On the other hand, if you lose a dominant shot blocker, no one else is there to pick up the slack.

Rebounding