PG: John Stockton / Mark Jackson
SG: George Gervin / Mitch Richmond / Jerry Sloan / Raja Bell
SF: Larry Bird / Detlef Schrempf
PF: Shawn Kemp / Chris Webber
C: Dikembe Mutombo / Mark Eaton
My team is mainly built around my great playmakers, Larry Bird and John Stockton, with another great in Mark Jackson coming off the bench. Then in my SG & PF spots, I found some of the best finishers/shooters of all-time with The Iceman, Richmond, Kemp, and C-Webb, leaving Bird and Stockton plenty of people to pass to. Because all my other positions have such offensive talent, I figured having garbagemen bigs would be my best option. Mutumbo and Eaton are both elite shotblockers with their immense size and lank, while also being pretty great rebounders. There are also two great perimeter defenders in Jerry Sloan and Raja Bell, that are energy guys, that can come off my bench and shut off someone's water by playing physical D. My roster has a bunch of great players that all have the same roles that which made them great, and I don't expect them to do something they didn't do back in their time, which would create great chemistry IMO.
As for the match-up against, The Dream's Team, it's a pretty good set-up for a great series. My roster is set-up, that is can slow down Hakeem with Mutumbo and Eaton that don't give up a size advantage on Hakeem, and also are great post defensive players. Even though on the offensive they're not great scorers, they also don't allow Hakeem to roam the paint to block shots because they can hit the offensive boards and get putbacks, which would actually make them a much bigger factor than otherwise. McAdoo was a good scorer in his time but he was a mass volume shooter, and with is team, I'm not sure if he'll be the same player effective player on offense. On defense, he'll also go against the high energy Shawn Kemp or athletic Chris Webber that will give him fits, also not allowing him to try to roam for block shots. His best perimeter defenders, Dumars and Bowen, wouldn't be that big of a factor in this series either IMO. There are very few people that can slow down Bird and Stockton in their prime, even if they were covered, they found the open guy. Against his D-Wade, I could also wear him down by throwing Sloan and Raja Bell on him for parts of the game, playing physical in-your-face D, where he would eventually start giving up points on the other end to Gervin from fatigue.
