if you're picking the best startup 5 players who would you pick?

[pico]

nash
koby
james
ben wallace
duncan

[seaborneq]

Duncan hands down. Why is Ben Wallace on this list?

[pico]

Duncan hands down. Why is Ben Wallace on this list?

defense

[jjgold]

Williams of Utah
Kobe
James
Duncan
Wade

[seaborneq]

Duncan hands down. Why is Ben Wallace on this list?

Sorry, I thought you meant one person, now I realize that's the whole team.

J Kidd
Passing Lebron
Kobe
Duncan
Boozer

[rjt721]

PG - Chris Paul
SG - Kobe
SF - Luol Deng
PF - Chris Bosh
C - Duncan

[Bill Dozer]

If the goal is having a good franchise for 10 years I go with Dwight Howard, Boozer, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul and Wade.

[The HG]

If the goal is just for next year, and to have a team playing cohesively and fluidly, I'd say:

Nash
James
Nowitzki
Duncan
and I guess Kobe

[BigBollocks]

Nash
Kobe
Bosh
James
Duncan

[Poker Pirate]

kobe
nash
nowitzski
bosh
duncan


every list better have kobe & duncan on it.

[spliff]

Deron Williams
Arenas
Wade
Amare
Bosh

[spliff]

might swap Kobe for Gil and Duncan for Bosh, but wanted new blood.

[pico]

If the goal is just for next year, and to have a team playing cohesively and fluidly, I'd say:

Nash
James
Nowitzki
Duncan
and I guess Kobe

i think this is probably the best all star line up i've seen on this thread. with these 5 people, they can easily score 160 points against any team.

now if you have to pick a capitain out of these 5, i would probably go with nash...he can facilliate passing among the players.

[sergfro]

PG- Nash
SG- Kobe
SF- James
PF- KG
C- Duncan