2020 All-Time Draft - Round 1: Beer vs Thee jazz fan

[Beer]

Steve Nash
Carmelo Anthony
Lebron James
Charles Barkley
Dwight Howard

Penny Hardaway
David Thompson
Gilbert Arenas
Marcus Camby
David Benoit

Team Thee jazz fan

Ben Wallace // Bill Laimbeer
Kevin Garnett // Bobby Jones
Scottie Pippen // Alex English
Ray Allen // Manu Ginobili
Isaiah Thomas // Jrue Holiday

Nash - Isaiah: This is fairly even maybe a slight advantage to Isaiah but Nash is a better fit for Beer
Skywalker - Ray Allen: At their peak this is fairly even. Allen is the better shooter but Skywalker has advantages as well.
Lebron - Pipper: Obviously this is Lebron
Barkley - KG: This is advantage Barkley but its close.
Howard - Ben Wallace: This is kind of close but still advantage Howard.

Bench is a big advantage for Thee but that is less important. Beer would have to tighten up his line up, but that is expected anyways.

So really with that lineup there is almost no starting advantage for thee. But with the lineup posted it gives thee some advantages and an awkward lineup that struggles to work together for Beer.

I think Beer was too worried about a shooter next to Lebron at SG. Lebron needs some shooters around him but does not need that much. Also Lebron really likes Melo especially in his prime so it would be an okay fit if he came off the bench.

My reasoning for starting Melo was Penny is not a shooter, or wasn't in the early 90's when pretty much no one was a shooter, plus I wanted some playmaking off the bench. I had scoring with Gil and Skywalker but no one I'd be comfortable running the offense through and getting others involved. I know everyone loves to hate Melo but he's a sure fire hall of famer and one of the great scoreres of our generation, plus I got him in one of the very last rounds and he would be my 4th option. He's got to be the best 4th option out there.

I think my team is just full of good basketball players outside of Dwight Howard who was so dominant physically that he didn't need to be good at basketball. Chuck was a great playmaker that no one seems to remember. Dude was averaging 5-6 apg during his prime. Then Nash and Lebron 2 all time great playmakers. Melo and Dwight just need to fill the roles they are assigned.

I honestly think Ray Allen is being vastly overrated in this. I like him a lot but people are acting like he is the make or break key for a team. I'm not seeing it.

 

[Beer]

I dislike Melo and I know he loses you votes in these things so I wouldn't draft him. But prime Melo was really good and showed he could play very well with other stars in the Olympics. He was even decent at defense. But he is too disliked and most people are thinking of the more recent version of him.

I'm losing votes because people are forgetting how good Melo, Dwight, Barkley were in their primes. The fact that Thee is even pretending Ben Wallace could hang with prime Dwight Howard is laughable. Even idiotic. Ben Wallace was nice but he was the 3rd or 4th best player on those Pistons teams. Dwight carried a very mediocre Orlando team to the finals. Melo was not the fat lazy chucker people are remembering. He was a beast in the post, a very good athlete, an all time great scorer. People are voting with their hearts and not logically.

My bench is meh, I get it. Penny only had a few good years before injuries set in, Skywalker got into crack killing his surefire hall of fame chances, Gil had a few really bad years at the end of his career that overshadow how perfect he was for the modern game. He was the original 3's, layups, and free throws player. Dude was a lights out scorer for 4 or so years. Camby is an all time great rim protector. And David Benoit is GOAT.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Garnett.

And it’s not close. He’s in the same tier of Barkley offensively but an all-time great on defense and was committed to winning every day of the year. You cannot make the latter claim for Barkley.