Haha thanks Nick.
The smear campaign is on and it is getting messy in Minnesota. I am happy with this team and I know the athleticism and defense of this team is going to cause nightmares for other teams. I don't think I need a team to score 115 a night to win because I'm only going to be allowing 80-85.
My point in bringing up the championship Celtic team was not to compare roles, but actually to say that defensive minded teams can be championship contenders. The real life Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets score a ton of points, but their defense was their undoing.
My team is built around Lebron's ability to score, facilitate, and defend. Everyone on my team is a plus-defender. I have depth in bigs, wing players, and ball-handlers. I have shooters. Everyone on the team will fill a role. I arbitrarily laid out scoring predictions earlier and it was condemned by Roy, but honestly ask yourself if those are unreasonable scoring predictions for those players. I didn't break it up into per-minute production and expected rotation minutes, but even so I was within 7% of those values. IP said that I had laid out scoring for 257 minutes and of course there are 240 mins available in a game. 240/257 is 93.3%. In summation, I exaggerated my estimation by 7%. I'm sorry for that. You can't tell me that those predictions are unreasonable. I wholeheartedly disagree that my team will struggle on offense.
Korver, James, Battier, Chalmers, & Farmar all shot above 40% on 3s last season. Bradley, Miles, & Ellis are capable as well. Ibaka, Davis, & Steamer (to a lesser extent) can hit a mid-range jumper. Jordan is there for high percentage alley-oops and put backs. James, Ellis, & Farmar can all create their own shot or facilitate for others. I just see too much versatility offensively with my squad to be shut down. Even my bench will be able to contribute offensively against opposing team's benches. And to boot, the heavy defense will create high percentage fast break opportunities for us as well.