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All-Time NBA Draft Review - Da Throne

Posted on December 26, 2011 at 06:07 PM.

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Da Throne
C - Patrick Ewing, Yao Ming
PF - Dennis Rodman, Amare Stoudemire, Charles Oakley
SF - LeBron James, Rick Barry
SG - Drazen Petrovic, Joe Johnson
PG - Nate Archibald, Kevin Johnson, Earl Monroe

Da Throne

Offense - you have 2 of the 3 best passing forwards ever (LeBron & Barry). You have great scorers in LeBron, Barry, Stoudemire, Johnson, & Petrovic. I never saw Ewing or Yao as big inside scoring threats, so all of your top options are scorers who prefer to work 1.) with the ball and 2.) outside of 12 feet from the basket. The biggest problem I see you having here is your point guard - if you have Archibald bring it up, you will have several stagnant offensive possessions because Nate had a tendency to dribble down the shot clock, but I won't penalize you too much because he never had great teammates prior to going to Boston. I DO however penalize you for having LeBron, Ewing, & Kevin Johnson on the same team...you can't get away with 2 of your starters being well known choke artists. 8/10

Defense - Ewing: great defender. LeBron: great defender. Rodman: incredible defender. Barry: solid off ball defender who jumps passing lanes well. I don't like your guard defenders - Tiny, KJ, Monroe, Drazen, & Joe Johnson: all average (at best) on ball defenders, so Ewing will be asked to do a lot of protecting, which means he'll have to leave his man far too often. That being said, you could put a line up of Yao, Ewing, LeBron, Rodman, & Barry on the floor, and have some good defense going on. 8/10

Chemistry - you have a world class prick in Rick Barry. I don't know if he could co-exist with two other somewhat selfish players, in Archibald & Amare. I worry that with some soft players (Ewing, Yao, LeBron, & KJ), Barry may ruin their confidence over the course of...oh, a week or so. I would also worry that Barry would get in Oakley or Rodman's face, which would result in you losing Barry for a while because if Oakley went after Barry, none of Barry's teammates would step in to help Rick. If you could keep Barry happy, I don't see any issues..but that's a huge if. 7/10

Durability - Rodman never missed games. LeBron never misses games. Rick Barry had a few seasons where he missed some games, but played all the time, for the most part. Kevin Johnson always seemed to miss handful of games every year. Archibald had a few years where he only played between 30 and 50 games. Ewing didn't miss many games during his prime. Amare has had some injury ruined seasons. Joe Johnson rarely misses games. Yao was always injury prone. I say 8/10 here because during their primes, Barry, Ewing, Rodman, & LeBron never missed games. I have to penalize you for Yao, Amare, & KJ being a bit injury prone, though.

Depth - You have decent center depth. Your power forward depth is solid, and each one of them can offer different things. Rodman - defense & rebounding. Amare - scoring. Oakley - rebounding & toughness. Small forward is your deepest position - LeBron, Barry, you could slide Rodman down to SF, you could slide Joe Johnson up to SF. I feel that your shooting guard position is weak. 2 one dimensional players - they can both score very well, but neither are great creators. Your point guard position is solid, as well. Solid combination of passing & scoring (though Monroe was never a great assist man). I don't recall looking at what you said your starting line up would be, but I would imagine you would have to go Ewing, Amare, LeBron, Barry, Tiny. With this line up, you can do a lot more with your subs than if you had Barry on the bench & Drazen starting. Also, Rodman would be more valuable if you could bring him off the bench for 3 positions. 8/10

Total - 39/50

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