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Build your all-time starting five with $15

Doctor Hoop said:
You can literally pick any 5 that costs $15 and have a heckuva team. I'll take 3 $3 players - Napier, Castle, Clingan. Add Donyell at the 4, and that leaves a superb athlete who played years in the NBA for $1, Scotty B.
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I can never do these - I overthink and get mad when I leave out guys I like. It’s too frustrating and I quit.

I can’t decide on just one iteration.
 
Doctor Hoop said:
You can literally pick any 5 that costs $15 and have a heckuva team. I'll take 3 $3 players - Napier, Castle, Clingan. Add Donyell at the 4, and that leaves a superb athlete who played years in the NBA for $1, Scotty B.
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It’s nice having enough greats to make this a real debate and fun exercise

Pretty clear cut (if they even have 25 greats) with most programs
 
Despite our surplus of PGs and Shabazz being the guy I ALWAYS want to pick here…2 bucks for El-Amin might be the move. He was so good. Great leader, clutch…
 
Again, we need one of those SIM maven's to start running these teams against each other. That would actually be a pretty cool thing to do in the off-season.
 
Shabazz ($3) Lamb ($2) Caron ($4) Charlie ($3) and Clingan ($3)

Ultimate point God

A shooter with length and can get in passing lanes + can play off ball

Do it all Caron

Jumbo 4 who was a great floor spacer + shot blocker

Clingan is Clingan

Covering my bases rebounding wise, defensively, with shooters, and a go to scorer in Caron when needed. And Shabazz in there to make sure everyone gets the ball accordingly while being the best catch and shoot 3 point guy of the group of PGs.
 
RuffRuff said:
If your roster isn’t starting with a 3 dollar discount Clingan you’re not doing this right. He might be the most valuable asset at any dollar value.
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That and $3 Shabazz.

He has everything you need to run a great team and has all the ability to play both on and off the ball seamlessly.

Honestly not sure how he became the $3 player but I’ll take it.

If I went with any $5 guy it’d be Marshall value wise because I don’t think there’s another super talent in that group.

PGs have Shabazz at $3 who is a $5 player.
SGs have Ben and Lamb is a pretty good value choice too who can do a little bit of everything
SFs have Caron who is a $5 player realistically
Centers have Clingan who is another $5 value player

I tried to find a way to fit Marshall in but I’m not moving off of Bazz or Clingan and really wanted a dominant wing scorer which I didn’t think was there under $4.

So Butler and the next closest thing to Marshall in Charlie it was lol
 
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Lots of interesting teams. I’m picking

Napier
Gordon
Gay
Adrien
Clingan

Great scoring. Nobody going to come into the lane with Adrien and Clingan.
 
Might just take all five $3 players - imagine Charlie V and Donovan? Castle as the tall elite shooting guard with Napier's 3s and passing and drives? Rudy Gay then just chilling and scoring and rebounding.

Really cannot lose with $15, the obvious bargains are Chris Smith for $1, Karaban for $1, and Clingan for $3
 
Connecticut13 said:
Easy:

PG: Chris Smith at $1 (this is a steal)
SG: Ray Allen at $5 (best player in UConn history)
SF: Caron Butler at $4
PF: Jeff Adrien at $2
C: Donovan Clingan ($3) (another steal)
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Maybe it's because 89-90 is burned into my mind more than any of those other late 80s early 90's seasons but I will always think of Chris Smith as a SG even though he is listed as a PG on this exercise. Using most of your logic in the brackets, I think I would actually go Napier at point, slide Smith to SG and Allen to SF. This looks even better to me:

PG: Napier
SG: Smith
SF: Allen
PF: Adrien
C: Clingan

I know I'm leaving $1 on the table with this group so realistically you can swap in Dyson, Lamb or Hawkins on the wing for Smith based on preference. The possibilities are endless here.
 
Sorry, a little late to to the game here. I'd go with:

Chris Smith (1$)
Ray Allen (5$)
RIP (5$)
Karaban (1$)
Clingan (3$)

It's kind of crazy and shows you how spoiled we have been as CB sports fans that guys like Ricky Moore, Nadav Henefeld, Josh Boone, Kevin Freeman, Donny Marshall, Shonn Miller... etc. aren't on list.
 
Spaceman213J said:
Sorry, a little late to to the game here. I'd go with:

Chris Smith (1$)
Ray Allen (5$)
RIP (5$)
Karaban (1$)
Clingan (3$)

It's kind of crazy and shows you how spoiled we have been as CB sports fans that guys like Ricky Moore, Nadav Henefeld, Josh Boone, Kevin Freeman, Donny Marshall, Shonn Miller... etc. aren't on list.
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Boat, AJ Price, Marcus Williams, Doron
 
ColchVEGAS said:
Same, but give me El-Amin for the extra buck over Smith.
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Cool but I’m gonna say it. Chris Smith was a better college PG than Bazz, and El Amin and right there with Kemba and Newton. He just didn’t have the teams they had. I watched his entire UConn run. He was that good. He’s the foundation of our Blood eventually turning Blue
 
Marcus Williams, Doron and AJ are probably the best players to not be included on this list, but there's so many good PGs it's tough.

I am not sure Newton is a $4 PG though, that seems a bit tough on Bazz and El-Amin. Newton was awesome obviously, but I think I might have those reversed.
 
Mr. French said:
Marcus Williams, Doron and AJ are probably the best players to not be included on this list, but there's so many good PGs it's tough.

I am not sure Newton is a $4 PG though, that seems a bit tough on Bazz and El-Amin. Newton was awesome obviously, but I think I might have those reversed.
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Talik Brown was a tank. He should be on that list. Talik is not talked about enough as being one of the great UConn point guards.

 
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B1GEast said:
Talik Brown was a tank. He should be on that list. Talik is not talked about enough as being one of the great UConn point guards.

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Taliek was awesome, I almost left out Doron and then there are guys like Jalen Adams. It’s wild how much talent at Guard we’ve had in 30 years of basketball.
 
Mr. French said:
Taliek was awesome, I almost left out Doron and then there are guys like Jalen Adams. It’s wild how much talent at Guard we’ve had in 30 years of basketball.
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I don’t think we missed at the PG position since the 90s with Calhoun.

It’s crazy the consistency we’ve had there.

Carried over to the Ollie years but unfortunately, he couldn’t coach any other position worth a damn.
 
My take on the chart and the $ values- Napier was better than Newton and Smitty is too low at $1.

Dyson also feels totally out of place on this chart. Cam was only here one season but he was a far better player than Dyson and a major reason we had the most dominant team ever in the 64 team tournament. Boat also played shooting guard and was only really the point his senior season, he was also better than Dyson. Also, Chris Smith was the shooting guard and Tate was the point guard. Smitty was far better than Dyson.

I would also switch up Clingan and Thabeet even though Thabeet has the personal accolades and Clingan has the championships. I just thought Clingan was more impactful but I can see some people having Thabeet ahead of him.
 
superjohn said:
My take on the chart and the $ values- Napier was better than Newton and Smitty is too low at $1.

Dyson also feels totally out of place on this chart. Cam was only here one season but he was a far better player than Dyson and a major reason we had the most dominant team ever in the 64 team tournament. Boat also played shooting guard and was only really the point his senior season, he was also better than Dyson. Also, Chris Smith was the shooting guard and Tate was the point guard. Smitty was far better than Dyson.

I would also switch up Clingan and Thabeet even though Thabeet has the personal accolades and Clingan has the championships. I just thought Clingan was more impactful but I can see some people having Thabeet ahead of him.
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In fairness to Dyson, he’s probably remembered a lot differently if he doesn’t hurt his knee in 2009 and we win a championship.

One of the teams leading scorers and best perimeter defenders over his 4 years here. If we win in 2009 he probably sails off into the sunset as a junior and is remembered more for his toughness and slicin dyson than that 2010 season.

Feel bad as that knee injury was kind of life changing for him.
 
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