What current player wins a clone tournament?

Laimbeer · Post #1 » by **Laimbeer** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:19 am

With players as they are currently, who would make the winning team if there were five of each one?

Franco · Post #2 » by **Franco** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:37 am

I feel like it would probably be Jokic, even if he was killed defensively he's the most complete offensive player of the group in my opinion (also the best screen setter), thought it does look pretty funny in my mind imagining a Jokic screening to another.

RCM88x · Post #3 » by **RCM88x** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:38 am

Franco wrote:I feel like it would probably be Jokic, even if he was killed defensively he's the most complete offensive player of the group in my opinion (also the best screen setter), thought it does look pretty funny in my mind imagining a Jokic screening to another.

I think you could pretty easily exploit Jokic in transition with a quicker player though, certainly the most well rounded offensively though.

Post #4 » by **penbeast0** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:58 pm

I don't think Jokic has the handles or footspeed for this, Giannis probably wins it. One never knows though; I remember when the NBA had a league-wide one on one tournament (way back in the 70s), and the winners included both centers and small guards.

RCM88x · Post #5 » by **RCM88x** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:29 pm

penbeast0 wrote:I don't think Jokic has the handles or footspeed for this, Giannis probably wins it. One never knows though; I remember when the NBA had a league-wide one on one tournament (way back in the 70s), and the winners included both centers and small guards.

Giannis feels like a good pick to me too, though I do wonder if he has the offensive skills outside of the restricted area, feel like it would be easy to exploit his handle too. Then again, defensively he would be pretty impossible to score on.

Post #6 » by **penbeast0** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:58 pm

RCM88x wrote:
penbeast0 wrote:I don't think Jokic has the handles or footspeed for this, Giannis probably wins it. One never knows though; I remember when the NBA had a league-wide one on one tournament (way back in the 70s), and the winners included both centers and small guards.

Giannis feels like a good pick to me too, though I do wonder if he has the offensive skills outside of the restricted area, feel like it would be easy to exploit his handle too. Then again, defensively he would be pretty impossible to score on.

Easy for a Kawhi Leonard to exploit Giannis's handle, not so much for Jokic. And Giannis has averaged roughly as many 3 pointers in the last 4 years as an earlier era Larry Bird did in his most prolific season (in a lot less minutes). It's the modern game.

Franco · Post #7 » by **Franco** » Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:12 pm

RCM88x wrote:
Franco wrote:I feel like it would probably be Jokic, even if he was killed defensively he's the most complete offensive player of the group in my opinion (also the best screen setter), thought it does look pretty funny in my mind imagining a Jokic screening to another.

I think you could pretty easily exploit Jokic in transition with a quicker player though, certainly the most well rounded offensively though.

I think none of the players currently have the skillset to be a complete team, though. A team full of Giannis' has essentially no spacing and mediocre passing, thought his defense would be probably the best unless you include apex AD on the list.

KD is probably the best mix of shotmaking/playmaking/passable defense, but I don't think he's good enough anymore where the fit would actually put him over the rest.