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[eja117]

As much as I hate to admit it

I give you Team France

pg Tony Parker, Rodrigue Beubois, Nando
sg Pietrus, Evan Fournier
sf Nic Batum
pf Boris Diaw
c Kevin Seraphin, Ian Mahinimi, Johan Petro

[eja117]

Team Spain

pg Ricky Rubio
sg Jose Calderon
sf Serge Ibaka, Victor Claver
pf Pau gasol
C Marc Gasol

[staticcc]

The High school team

PG: T-Mac
SG: Kobe
SF: LBJ
PF: KG
C:  Bynum

Bench: Dwight, Amare, Rashard Lewis, J Oneal, Monta Ellis, JR Smith, Josh Smith, Al Jefferson, Tyson Chandler

Mascot: Kwame Brown

[eja117]

So if we're going to have Team High School then I guess we have to go with Oak Hill Academy, right?

pg Rondo, Ty lawson, Brandon Jennings, Doron Lamb, Steve Blake, Nolan Smith
sg Stephen Jackson, Jerry Stackhouse
sf Melo
pf Josh Smith
c DeSagana Diop,

[CelticConcourse]

Arizona might not be the best, but it's OK too.

Jerryd Bayless
Chase Budinger
Will Bynum
Channing Frye
Jordan Hill
Andre Iguodala
Richard Jefferson   
Jason Terry   
Luke Walton
Derrick Williams

[CelticConcourse]

Kansas is average as well:

Cole Aldrich
Darrell Arthur
Mario Chalmers
Nick Collison
Drew Gooden
Xavier Henry
Kirk Hinrich
Marcus Morris
Markieff Morris
Paul Pierce
Thomas Robinson
Brandon Rush
Josh Selby
Tyshawn Taylor

[CelticConcourse]

UConn:

Jeff Adrien
Ray Allen
Caron Butler
Andre Drummond
Rudy Gay
Ben Gordon
Richard Hamilton
Jeremy Lamb
Emeka Okafor
A.J. Price
Hasheem Thabeet
Charlie Villanueva
Kemba Walker

This team could be solid.

[CelticConcourse]

Marquette doesn't have much, but of what they have, they're not bad and Doc gets to play that small ball he's in love with:

Coach: Doc Rivers
PG: Dwyane Wade
SG: Wesley Matthews
SF: Jimmy Butler
PF: Jae Crowder
C: Steve Novak

[CelticConcourse]

Team Brazil likes to play only in the paint:

PG: Leandro Barbosa
PF: Nenê
PF: Tiago Splitter
C: Anderson Varejao
C: Fab Melo

Who needs an outside game?

[CelticConcourse]

UCLA has lots of talented guards in Collison, Holiday

Similar looking much?

[lightspeed5]

easily kentucky. not even close.

[KG_ended_Bias]

the only way you could rival the HS team is assemble all of the current NBA players & just form it to the all SEC, ACC, Big East, PAC-10 team. now that would be interesting.

[Fan from VT]

I always loved this debate! I wrote a huge one of these at least 5 years ago, breaking down each team...the thread didn't go anywhere, probably because i didn't just ask the question and open it up, but wrote a mega-post that answered the question I asked.

Back then, I seem to remember the big 4 being:
-Duke (Brand/Boozer in primes; Deng; Battier; Maggette still legit; Hill; poor at PG).
-UNC (Wallace all-nba defense; Jameson 20/10; Carter; Felton a young and fast gun; Mccants and May looked at least solid)
-Kansas (Hinrich and Collison still good; Pierce at peak; Lafrentz/Gooden/Pollard still contributors)
-UConn (Ray at peak, Okafor and Gordon looked like impending contributors, especially Okafor as a defensive anchor; Hamilton still very good; Butler looked all-starrish)

Dark horse was always Wake, with a young/rookie CP3, Josh Howard looking like an all-star, and Duncan as an MVP candidate as the foundation.


How things change. The 1 year requirement for college has definitely made this game harder, as has the overall increase in league talent. I think the talent drought was ending when I last did this, with a lot of young guys about to take over.

Not sure who I take now. I kind of like Texas (when in doubt, take the best player, and I'm excluding high-school for this). Kansas could be good if Pierce maintains and the guys from last class pan out. Kentucky could dominate or implode. I like the potential of UCLA, especially if their current projected rookie pans out.

[KG_ended_Bias]

Pac-10

PG: Russell Westbrook, Jason Kidd, Jrue Holiday
SG: James Harden, O.J. Mayo, Brandon Roy
SF: Andre Igoudala, Demar Derozan, Richard Jefferson
PF: Kevin Love, Derrick WIlliams
C : Brook Lopez

And I hate to say it but this team gets blown out by every major conference.

[KGs Knee]

ACC Team

PG: Chris Paul, Kyrie Irving
SG: JJ Redick, Iman Shumpert
SF: Luol Deng, Harrison Barnes, Thaddeous Young
PF: Chris Bosh, Carlos Boozer
C:  Tim Duncan, Derrick Favors, JJ Hickson

ACC looking nasty!