Most important positions in order for team success
Obviously everyone puts massive emphasis on how much talented big men are so hard to come by these days, and as a result we see teams in the lottery going after big guys with talent and potential.
So i put it to you, what is the order of importance that each team would put on each position. I guess what im asking is, what position is the most important to a team in order for success. Which position is needs to be the strongest in order to be champions.
Rate each position from 1 to 5, in order of importance.
EG.
1. Center
2. dont
3. know
4. thats why im
5. asking
Re: Most important positions for a team to address
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Originally Posted by AtTheDriveIn
1. Center
2. Point Guard
3. Power Forward
4. Shooting Guard
5. Small Forward
I don't know, I have no clue. That looks wrong.
Thats what i originally thought. But then i thought about it and it just seemed too hard for me figure out, because you look at what Tim Duncan is doing at PF (or is he playing Center?)
Especially when i thought about MJ being an SG, but obviously that was a different era.
Re: Most important positions for a team to address
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Originally Posted by Darsh
Thats what i originally thought. But then i thought about it and it just seemed too hard for me figure out, because you look at what Tim Duncan is doing at PF (or is he playing Center?)
Especially when i thought about MJ being an SG, but obviously that was a different era.
Exactly. Originally, i was going to put Shooting Guard last and then put up Small Forward to 3. Just because you need an all-around player, and it would almost be as important as a distributor. But when you look at Jordan, then it becomes different. There's too many great players at every positions for any kind of order to be right, but I think a Center would probably be the big thing. A great Center can make any team look good, and it's been proven in the past.
Last edited by AtTheDriveIn : 07-08-2007 at 06:29 AM.
Re: Most important positions in order for team success
No one should be saying point guard. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, Bill Russell, Hakeem Olajuwon, half of the top 10 players in NBA history, are centers. Look at all of the Dynasties in NBA history, only one didn't have a star center (Jordan's Bulls). And the greatest Dynasty of all (Russell's Celtics) was, of course, based around a center. A center, or at least a great big (Tim Duncan could easily be called a center) is the most important part of a Championship formula, without a doubt. Only Dynasty based on a pg is Magic's Lakers, and Johnson was a very versatile 6'9 player that could and at one point or another in his career did play every position (although he was mainly a point guard). People are taking the "Nash Era" (that's a joke, this is really the Tim Duncan era, although most analysts won't admit that) too seriously.
Re: Most important positions in order for team success
If we're going solely by position, I would have to go with...
1. Point Guard
2. Center
3. Shooting Guard
4. Power Forward
5. Small Forward
You can have a great center, but if you don't have a point guard who can give him the ball, then that great center won't make an impact. That's why I have point guard at the top of my list. A great team needs both.
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Your "inside presence" on offense and defense isn't going to come from your sg. Certain positions provide those skills, and the thread creator is just asking to rank those positions.
Re: Most important positions in order for team success
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Originally Posted by traditionone
If we're going solely by position, I would have to go with...
1. Point Guard
2. Center
3. Shooting Guard
4. Power Forward
5. Small Forward
You can have a great center, but if you don't have a point guard who can give him the ball, then that great center won't make an impact. That's why I have point guard at the top of my list. A great team needs both.
Do you think that Derek Fisher was more important than Shaq, Parker/Johnson more important than Duncan, or Kenny Smith was more important than Olajuwon?
Most important positions in order for team success
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