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2025 Annual All Time Draft Finals Team 10 vs Team 13

Who wins in a seven game NBA finals series

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Thee Jazz Fan

Thee Jazz Fan

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Who would win in a seven game NBA finals series?

Team 10
PG: Gary Payton/ Walt Frazier / Ja Morant
SG: Michael Jordan / Anthony Edwards
SF: Julius Irving / Paul George / Alex English
PF: Pau Gasol / Elvin Hayes
C: Alonzo Mourning / Dikembe Mutombo

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Team 13
Pg-John Stockton//Pistol Pete
Sg-Jerry West//Devin Booker
Sf-Paul Pierce//Peja Stojakovic
Pf-Blake Griffin//Dennis Rodman//Elton brand
C-Nikola Jokić//Draymond Green//Tyson Chandler
 
Everybody just vote for Jordan. That's the way this usually goes.
 
I'm imagining that team 13 is starting Draymond Green and Devin Booker, and West is your super 6th man. I think I like that team better.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Everybody just vote for Jordan. That's the way this usually goes.
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It's difficult to imagine Jordan losing in a situation like this when we never saw him lose a finals in real life. I don't love the team that was built around Jordan this year, but it's also a stretch to imagine Jordan's team not winning.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
It's difficult to imagine Jordan losing in a situation like this when we never saw him lose a finals in real life. I don't love the team that was built around Jordan this year, but it's also a stretch to imagine Jordan's team not winning.
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IMO Jordan has tons of help on this team. I see this as no contest.
 
gomretat said:
IMO Jordan has tons of help on this team. I see this as no contest.
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Eh, I'll admit to not giving it too much thought, but I don't love the Pau/Zo pairing. There is also a lack of spacing and limited play making. It's not bad and it's almost impossible to make a bad team around Jordan, but I've seen better ones over the years.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Eh, I'll admit to not giving it too much thought, but I don't love the Pau/Zo pairing. There is also a lack of spacing and limited play making. It's not bad and it's almost impossible to make a bad team around Jordan, but I've seen better ones over the years.
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I’m not sure you’ve ever watched Pau play or you wouldn’t say that.
 
Thee Jazz Fan said:
Also Pau is a perfect fit with Jordan. Both played in the triangle offense under Phil Jackson. You underrate Pau’s brilliance. Smart skilled, and winning player. He’s the type of player that can coexist in any offense or scheme
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If team 10 is playing the triangle offense and scoring 90 points a game, then I would definitely think that team 13 has a good chance.
 
During Pau's 3 all star years in LA he averaged about 3 assists per game. That's good for a big man, but it's not like they were running the offense through him. He made 2 total 3's during that 3 year stretch and made 90% of his shots within 16ft of the basket (80% within 10 feet of the basket) per basketball reference. Do you know who else made about 90% of their shots within 16 feet of the basket, Alonzo Mourning.

If you want to argue that if Pau played in today's NBA he would have developed in to a floor spacing big, or a Sengun type big that you run your offense through, then I think I can imagine that. However, based on how he played when he played, nobody would be guarding him outside of 16 feet in this matchup.
 
Basically my point is team10’s defense is as elite as it gets then add Jordan to that mix, I’ve never before in sports seen a professional athlete with Jordan’s will to win and not lose. For those too young to see him play night in and out. If he was playing your team the more you watched the more he would just suck your soul right out of you. There was nothing he couldn’t do if that skill was what he needed to use to win a game.

If his team needed two ft’s at the end of a game… no problem, a rebound, he was getting it a defensive stop, automatic. The balls needed him to score 60 not a problem and assist to Steve Kerr or John Paxton at the end of the game easy Pickens or his team needed him to hit a bunch of threes at the end of the game he was gonna make every single one of them. Honestly, I’ve never seen anyone with his resolve ever, and I don’t think we’ll ever see it again. It was maddening to watch your team play him, especially in the playoffs as a young man. I hated Michael Jordan with every fiber of my being because at times he was the perfect player And the biggest moments you saw coming and you knew your there was nothing. Your team can do about it. Once he figured everything out, there is nothing you could do about it. You weren’t going to stop Michael Jordan and no one ever did after he figured everything out.
 
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