Most people will probably choose B but in today's game you have to hit a lot of threes to be able to win. B is a poor 3-point shooting team (Pippen is the only legit three point shooter but he is only shooting 32.6%). I would probably choose A.
Was going to say B, but A is more likely to play as a team, and has the only guys that can consistently make 3s. Honestly Jordan is the only reason to say B. Defense is a team thing. None of these teams would play much defense, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to stop Curry and Durant from open 3s. There would be open shots everywhere, but only one team would make them count for 3 points instead of 2.
B is overrated, they have the dream team, but there was less talent back then. There is more talent today. A would take the 7 game series over B..Lebron Durant and Curry on the same team is just ridiculous. Team C would get wrecked.
B have 3 extremely injury prone players on it. If you play them physical they will get hurt and be out within 5 mins of the game. (Steven curry, AD, durant). So westbrook and lebron would have to play 2 vs 5.
i feel like team A has more options for guarding jordan than they do for hakeem (or shaq/duncan). lebron and durant could go a pretty good job. anthony davis doesn't seem like he's guarding hakeem as well as the others could guard jordan. and that's a big problem for team A that jordan may not be their big mismatch. on the flip side, team B has a problem. if barkley guards AD, then hakeem is probably guarding lebron, but you could just try to have hakeem back off like other teams (2011 mavs, 2013 spurs for the first 4 games) have had success with. otherwise barkley is guarding lebron. also, if you try to switch on curry, team B has 4 great options, but presumably team A just looks for barkley. but then maybe you just trap and hedge off westbrook/lebron. definitely seems interesting. A vs C is a crazy contrast in styles. either team A never grabs a rebound or team C never guards a 3 pointer.
Without even reading the comments, I chose B. The defensive and offensive power is just insane. Not to mention rebounds won't be a problem either due to the great mound of pound being there.
haaa so pretty much any team ever assembled would lose against curry and durant. god help the nba next year.
Lol, it depends on the ages and rules. But if players in their prime and no weak ass fouls/flagrant calls, B would own. Durant and Curry would be broken by the 1/2 so all that 3 point shooting (wooooooo), and then MJ and Hakeem on the same team (that's approaching all-time ever team, even MJ respected Hakeem). LeBron would be tough but... come on. He can't do it all,and with how good defensively team B would be, it'd be crazy (obviously as long as there's physical play). We all saw how well Curry is with physical play. LeBron obviously could play physical ball though, but B is stacked with physical guys.
lol @ those saying the game changed. Great players change the game. Shaq changed the game. Jordan changed the game. Hakeen anihilated the rules. The only difference is that 3pt shooters would get more open shots today. Yes. But there would be no one to guard Hakeem because the players changed and then the players changed. Guess what? Hakeem was destroying people who were made to defend him and within those rules. I would love to see Payton guarding Curry. If the Cavs could do that to him, imagine what a backcourt of Jordan and Payton would do lol.
B would laugh their way to a blowout 10 out of 10 games against A B would beat C, but perhaps only 8 out of 10 times
Team C has a bunch of chokers....hakeem would finesse the heck outta shaq and kobe is no match for jordan........So team B!
As much as I love Dream + MJ I would still go with the 3 ball hog team of team C. Why? Spacing for Team B will be horrible. All 5 are technically post up players, yes the defense will be a nightmare for others, but the balance on offense is just not there. Pippen and Payton plays the same role. Who will be playing the point? And neither are good or even decent 3p shooters. And if you have either Dream or Barkley as a pick and roll guy, it will limit their contribution as well. And with that, you have Jordon playing primarily as a space shooter...
Agreed. Obviously still hate the Jazzholes as a Rockets fan, but Stockton is so underrated. One could argue Stockton as a top 3 PG all time, easily. You can't say that about GP. Better defender, sure, but Stockton wasn't horrible there either. Anyways, B, A, C.
Team B would own any other team assembled. Change stockton for gary for three point shooting and it's total destruction. stockton was one of the best thespian's of the past 100 years, curry fouls out by quarter 3, while getting a broken rib due to accidental elbows between screens.