Would an all-time Piston team beat the Warriors in *today's* rules/officiating?

[440BB]

Isiah Thomas on the floor with Grant Hill, both in their prime, would clean up in today's NBA. I can see Dumars, Sheed and Worm rounding that out pretty well. Loads of basketball IQ and athleticism. Worm cleaning off the glass, Sheed schooling Draymond while Isiah, Grant and Joe wear the Warriors out trying to defend us. Those threes would start coming up short in the fourth quarter. Then we feast.

I'll take the Pistons.

It sure would be fun to see Jerry Stackhouse let loose offensively with the current rules.

[ComboGuardCity]

Sheed in today’s NBA is such a cheat code. Wonder what his 3pt% would look like with today’s analytics data.

[Billl]

The problem isn't that an all-time team wouldn't have more talent than the current warriors. The problem is that none of them grew up playing that brand of basketball. If you plucked prime Rodman out of time and put him in a game today, he would foul out in 5 minutes. Would he adapt eventually? Sure, he's a great player with a high IQ, but it wouldn't be a quick transition. If you let them play together for 2 years and rework their games for the new rules and learn to play together, then the all-stars win. If you just toss them out there against the current warriors, they would get smoked.

[Snakebites]

A selection of Piston all time greats, or about any team's for that matter, would surely be better than the dominant team in the league currently. Ignoring the cap issues with assembling such a team results in a true "super team." Playing the game, any such team surely includes the truly underrated and entirely superlative IT, and maybe the best 2nd round pick of all time, DR. Ah summer...

Golden State has 2 top 6 players plus 3 more all stars who are likely top 20 (maybe not Cousins if he’s not healthy).

Pistons have one guy who was ever a clear top 5 player.

Grant hill was a clear top 5 player

I think in 96-97 he was, yes.

He wasn’t really able to sustain it though.

[ComboGuardCity]

Golden State has 2 top 6 players plus 3 more all stars who are likely top 20 (maybe not Cousins if he’s not healthy).

Pistons have one guy who was ever a clear top 5 player.

Grant hill was a clear top 5 player

I think in 96-97 he was, yes.

He wasn’t really able to sustain it though.

Yeah a short peak, derailed by injuries. But I would say s team with 2 top 5 players and 10 other all stars surely beats the Warriors handidly.

Zeke/Billups
JoeD/Rip/VJ
Hill/Prince/Houston
Rodman/Hill
Sheed/Ben

[sludgefoot]

Walter Dukes, Gene Shue, George

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[Manocad]

Bob Lanier could avg 50ppg on the Warriors. Isiah could avg 30ppg in todays rules.

Isiah/Bing/Billups
Dumars/Rip/Stackhouse
Hill/Dantley/Prince
Sheed/Debuss/Rodman
Lanier/Ben/Laimbeer

Any team that has Laimbeer, Stackhouse and Prince in street clothes is going to overpower the Warriors in a 7 game series. Vinnie, Allen Houston, Bison Dele, Aguirre and Yardley cant even make the team.

Thank you. This thread needed an old guy to identify that Lanier would wreak havoc on the Warriors. Sheed at PF, Hill at SF, Rip at SG, Isiah at PG with a first three off the bench of Vinnie, Rodman, and Big Ben. That’s a Warriors killing team without a doubt.


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[MotownMadness]

Grant hill was a clear top 5 player

I think in 96-97 he was, yes.

He wasn’t really able to sustain it though.

Yeah a short peak, derailed by injuries. But I would say s team with 2 top 5 players and 10 other all stars surely beats the Warriors handidly.

Zeke/Billups
JoeD/Rip/VJ
Hill/Prince/Houston
Rodman/Hill
Sheed/Ben

That team should definitely take down the Warriors. That’s just too much talent in the game at all times. Warriors are loaded but not that loaded.