hiIn the NBA community you always here the question "What's your Dream Team?." It's fun to talk about, you name players from all sorts of decades and it's usually a starting 5 with all players playing there native position. In reality this wouldn't work for some key reasons.
Now a Dream Team usually has "Hall of Famers" and many of those players want the ball in their hand. This will cause many problems because clearly not everyone will have the most touches. Players will be frustrated because they are not getting the ball enough and will start to do bad. Many of these players also won't be able to heat up because of the same reason. You see this effect on the clippers where players like Stephenson and Josh Smith are making them worse because the lack of minutes. The Clippers changed their line up to players that aren't nearly as skilled and it ended up in a 10 game winning streak without Blake Griffin. There is also the factor of overpay and wanting trades. You will rarely see a team with 4 amazing players because of those reasons and their stat line goes down. You can see that Lamarcus Aldridge's skill didn't go down on spurs but since their is so much talent on the team and how they run it he doesn't drop 24 a game.
In reality a real Dream Team would need to have unselfish and humble players. To make an actual team like this you would most likely only need 3 Hall of Famers with only 2 of them being scorers and the other an unreal defender. The other 2 players would be all around players which can clean up, spot up, and hustle for plays. These two are key to this team because they will do all the dirty work and can let their other teammates preserve their energy.
Your team of Stephen Curry, MJ, Lebron, Karl Malone, and Shaq would never work (this would never be my Dream Team by the way). In reality a team like 1995-1996 Bulls would be fine and it did. Don't expect any team in the NBA to ever have ludicrous teams like this.
Now a Dream Team usually has "Hall of Famers" and many of those players want the ball in their hand. This will cause many problems because clearly not everyone will have the most touches. Players will be frustrated because they are not getting the ball enough and will start to do bad. Many of these players also won't be able to heat up because of the same reason. You see this effect on the clippers where players like Stephenson and Josh Smith are making them worse because the lack of minutes. The Clippers changed their line up to players that aren't nearly as skilled and it ended up in a 10 game winning streak without Blake Griffin. There is also the factor of overpay and wanting trades. You will rarely see a team with 4 amazing players because of those reasons and their stat line goes down. You can see that Lamarcus Aldridge's skill didn't go down on spurs but since their is so much talent on the team and how they run it he doesn't drop 24 a game.
In reality a real Dream Team would need to have unselfish and humble players. To make an actual team like this you would most likely only need 3 Hall of Famers with only 2 of them being scorers and the other an unreal defender. The other 2 players would be all around players which can clean up, spot up, and hustle for plays. These two are key to this team because they will do all the dirty work and can let their other teammates preserve their energy.
Your team of Stephen Curry, MJ, Lebron, Karl Malone, and Shaq would never work (this would never be my Dream Team by the way). In reality a team like 1995-1996 Bulls would be fine and it did. Don't expect any team in the NBA to ever have ludicrous teams like this.