Who wins?

jezzerinho · Post #1 » by **jezzerinho** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 7:02 am

Thought it would be interesting to pair up our top 4 current guys and give them some alltime Magic help to win a Finals series.

All players in their ORLANDO primes and injury free.

Who prevails?

Team 1

Hardaway
Bane
Turkoglu
Banchero
Howard

6th man: A. Gordon

Team 2

Suggs
McGrady
Wagner
Grant
O'Neal

6th man: Redick

RookieStar · Post #2 » by **RookieStar** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 9:08 am

Tmac and Shaq? Then you add Franz and Suggs? No contest

drsd · Post #3 » by **drsd** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 9:47 am

Team-1 is a better team. Team-2 has better players. I went with option #1.

jezzerinho · Post #4 » by **jezzerinho** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 11:14 am

RookieStar wrote:Tmac and Shaq? Then you add Franz and Suggs? No contest

Penny and Dwight, then you add Bane and Paolo? Thats a bit of an offensive monster.

I did vote Team 2 tho!

AdamTheGreek · Post #5 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 11:20 am

1.

Better ball-handling and shooting. Much more switching opportunities.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #6 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 4:44 pm

Team 1
Paolo and Franz haven’t hit their prime.

Post #7 » by **eyriq** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 4:47 pm

Team two in a route

KokoKaizer · Post #8 » by **KokoKaizer** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 5:25 pm

Team 1

Penny :rock:

MasterGMer · Post #9 » by **MasterGMer** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 7:52 pm

I bet O'Neal is going to dominate team 1. haha

RookieStar · Post #10 » by **RookieStar** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 8:40 pm

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:Team 1
Paolo and Franz haven’t hit their prime.

Well.. that's awkward seeing as Franz is in team 2..

jezzerinho · Post #11 » by **jezzerinho** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 9:02 pm

I don't think Team 1 can live with Team 2's defence.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #12 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 9:21 pm

RookieStar wrote:
ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:Team 1
Paolo and Franz haven’t hit their prime.

Well.. that's awkward seeing as Franz is in team 2..

No, I still like Team 1. I was just saying that both teams have a player that have yet to hit their prime.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #13 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 9:22 pm

jezzerinho wrote:I don't think Team 1 can live with Team 2's defence.

Team 1 is used to double and triple teams. :lol:

GameOver25 · Post #14 » by **GameOver25** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 10:53 pm

Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

RookieStar · Post #15 » by **RookieStar** » Wed Oct 1, 2025 11:35 pm

GameOver25 wrote:Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

Yeah this....

Tmacs prime was better than Kobe.

Shaq prime is MDE.

BadMofoPimp · Post #16 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Thu Oct 2, 2025 12:16 am

RookieStar wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

Yeah this....

Tmacs prime was better than Kobe.

Shaq prime is MDE.

Only if he played defense as good as Kobe.

RookieStar · Post #17 » by **RookieStar** » Thu Oct 2, 2025 1:58 am

BadMofoPimp wrote:
RookieStar wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

Yeah this....

Tmacs prime was better than Kobe.

Shaq prime is MDE.

Only if he played defense as good as Kobe.

They got Suggs and Franz for the D

drsd · Post #18 » by **drsd** » Thu Oct 2, 2025 7:21 am

GameOver25 wrote:Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

Scoring on team-1 is front he PG and PF slots and for team-2 the SG and C slots. That is a push. The real issue is that team-2 is not a team. It's a collection of players. team-1 is FAR more balanced. I still like team-1. Especially in the modern NBA.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #19 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Thu Oct 2, 2025 10:55 am

GameOver25 wrote:Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

I’ll still take Team 1. Anything with Howard defensively. I like him better than anyone.

There is hardly any spacing on team 2, T Mac is the only one that can shoot. I would most definitely leave Franz, Grant, and Shaq open for a 3 and I’ll play it by ear with Suggs.
Edit: Just realized that JJ is 6th man. Oh well.

But almost all of those players can get you a bucket when needed. We’re pretty lucky that we had them on our team at one point.

BTW: Is the “Grant” Horace Grant or Grant Hill? I thought it was Horace Grant. If it is Hill, that changes things in both offense and defense for team 2.

jezzerinho · Post #20 » by **jezzerinho** » Thu Oct 2, 2025 12:31 pm

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:
GameOver25 wrote:Are you guys serious? Team 2 destroys Team 1.
If we're talking about each player in their prime along with athleticism and skill. The only player who's clearly better on Team 1 is Penny. I really can't believe the responses so far.

I’ll still take Team 1. Anything with Howard defensively. I like him better than anyone.

There is hardly any spacing on team 2, T Mac is the only one that can shoot. I would most definitely leave Franz, Grant, and Shaq open for a 3 and I’ll play it by ear with Suggs.
Edit: Just realized that JJ is 6th man. Oh well.

But almost all of those players can get you a bucket when needed. We’re pretty lucky that we had them on our team at one point.

BTW: Is the “Grant” Horace Grant or Grant Hill? I thought it was Horace Grant. If it is Hill, that changes things in both offense and defense for team 2.

Its Horace.

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