Best Overall Team:
3rd Place: Who's Philadelphia 76ersThe most dominant player of our era, Shaquille O'Neal, headlines a team that rightly deserves mention in the 'Best Overall' category. Shaq, the Reignman Shawn Kemp, Tracy McGready, Terry Porter, and James Harden headline a team full of standouts. Who's team was picked by GM's in a landslide as the #1 squad, which helped propel him to third place here.
2nd Place: wdleehi and Redz's Atlanta HawksIts fitting that arguably the most complete 'team' in this exercise should place among the best overall squads. This team, the obvious brainchild of Redz 'The Clown-Genuis' Mousekewitz, was meticulously created using complex seltzer-to-cream pie algorithms and even more mysterious 'rubber-nose readings' to divine names which he plucked from thin air, and then gave to wdleehi to disseminate to the masses, like some sort of modern-day apostle (we are pretty confident that was wdleehi's only role here).
The team used a pretty simple recipe for succes: Dwight Howard is awesome, he needs shooters to succeed, and a great floor general to make stuff work. So using property 1 (Dwight Howard is awesome), the Hawks went out and got the best 3pt shooter ever (Ray Allen), paired him with a lights-out shooting power forward (Kevin Love), a tough-nosed defender and offensive swiss army knife at the forward spot (Luol Deng), and handed the reins to Deron Williams. They populated the bench with skilled players who all did more than one thing on an elite level. Whether it was defense and shooting from the 4/5 (Cliff Robinson), skilled scoring and defense (LaMarcus Aldridge)..the list goes on.
Robert Horry, Mario Ellie, Elden Campbell round out the bench and provide that secret savory ingredient that the Japanese call
Umami, to bring the whole thing together.
1st Place: Rondo2287's New York KnicksSome would argue that Rondo2287 took the easy way out. Some would argue that he should've made a bolder, more modern and sexy pick at number 3 overall, like Kyrie Irving, or Kevin Love.
Well Rondo2287's a simple man. He believes in the smell of a fresh-cut lawn, he believes hot dogs taste better in a ball park and he believes the movies of Jim Varney to be as American as apple pie. You think Rondo2287's pick of Tim Duncan at 3rd overall wasn't edgy enough? Sexy enough? Well you know what Rondo2287 finds edgy and sexy? Freedom, America, and the fundamentally sound turnaround bank-shot.
Around renowned patriot and Aquaman aficionado Tim Duncan, Rondo built team that was a defender in the streets but an offensive dynamo in the bed. He built easily the toughest 1-2 punch frontcourt to score on in the league by controversially drafting Ben Wallace's afro in late round 2, and surrounding the Wallace-Duncan tour-de-force with another DPOY in Ron Artest just one round later.
After that Rondo supplied all the sexy offense Eva Longoria could want but couldn't keep, rounding out his starting five with Tony (Toni, Toni) Parker and Brandon (I stole him from IP) Roy. His bench is populated by strong players, capable of adjusting to their new roles without screwing around with the chemistry, led by Detlef Schrempf, Rip Hamilton, and Carlos Boozer.
Final Points Tally:
Knicks: 7
Hawks: 6
76ers: 5
Heat: 4
Grizzlies, Mavs, Celtics: 2 a piece
Topic: 2012 CB Historical Draft Awards (Read 9044 times)