Team All-Scoring vs Team All-Purpose (Simmons for Marion)

[rand]

What wins, a team full of elite scorers who are not good at anything else or players who are great at practically everything but scoring?

Current refs.

Team All-Scoring
2006 Gilbert Arenas
2022 Devin Booker
2013 Carmelo Anthony
2005 Amare Stoudemire
2022 Karl-Anthony Towns

Team All-Purpose
2003 Jason Kidd
2015 Andre Iguodala
2021 Ben Simmons
2016 Draymond Green
2014 Joakim Noah

edit: I swapped Marion out for Simmons to further handicap the scoring potential of Team All-Purpose. Does it make any difference?

For reference, the All-Purpose five combined for 67.4 PPG vs the All-Scoring's 131.5 PPG. Obviously it's not that simple though.

[durantbird]

Kidd and Marion can definitely be the scorers, and also prime Iggy. The offensive talent on the other side is brilliant, but there are two sides to bball.

[cupcakesnake]

I get that the idea is that Team All-Purpose will struggle to score. But I don't think they'll struggle to score against this no-defense lineup.

It still wont be pretty...but Marion and Kidd are just going to scrap their way to a bunch of points. I think you can box out Towns and then just bully Team All-Scoring on the boards for a bunch of extra possessions. There's not enough shooting here, but there's a ton of passing and good finisher. Joakim Noah becomes a 15ppg scorer matching up against Amare and Towns. Marion has a field day getting guarded by Melo or Booker or Amare.

I don't think team all-scoring is going to produce efficient offense. 5 explosive scorers with enough shooting to space it, but where is the passing? 3 mid-range assassins in Booker, Melo, Amare. I picture the bigs never getting the ball so Towns is a glorified floor spacer. Even with Arenas and Towns spacing the floor for Melo/Booker/Amare to go to work, I think in a 3-on-3 game, this defense can still hold, or reduce them to a level of efficiency that wont be enough.

I think I'd trust Booker as a floor general more than Arenas. Towns is probably the best passer on this squad, and he's not really a good passer (throws nice passes but throws crazy turnovers just as often).

I guess I trust the brains on All-purpose to figure it out, more than I trust the tunnel vision explosive scoring squad.

Honestly, this game sounds like what watching the Raptors has been like this year. Extreme versatility and defensive flexibility but such a ridiculous lack of rim pressure and primary scoring that any kind of offense gives them trouble.

[TheBomb81]

All-Purpose.

[Colbinii]

All-Purpose considering team scoring has two shooting guards, Carmelo and 2 centers.

[Stan]

The spacing & shooting on the all purpose team is simply too atrocious to ignore.