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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3204293, member: 833"]
Real basketball doesn't work like rotisserie basketball.  A split second is the difference between an open shot and a contested shot so Players need to get on the same page to be successful.  Look at all 4 conference finalists.  The cores of those teams had been together for years.  The 76ers, which may have had the most talented team in the east on paper, got bounced in the second round.  The Nuggets may be on the verge of a multi year run to the conference and even NBA finals, but this year they were not ready yet.

A team needs to balance between having a solid team core and mixing and matching pieces around it.  I don't want to focus on the Knicks as an example because that team could  up a cup of coffee, but I think the Bucks and Raptors' approach is more likely to be successful than the Lakers' or 76ers'.  In extreme cases, the mixing and matching eventually overloads the cap number and you end up like the Thunder, Heat or Hornets.  Kind of good, but in salary cap prison.
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