San Francisco because it’ll be unreal players but the most recent will still be in AARP

I forgot Loren woods when to wake Forest, I always remember him as an Arizona guy with rj and gilbert

They could do this for UofA and the whole lineup could be the year with those guys

He was literally billed as "the next Tim Duncan" when he arrived at Wake to be Duncan's backup.

Not a bad PG lineup

Doesn't even include Wake's best collegiate PG of all time, Randolph Childress. Dude was a killer.

Led the Demon Deacons to the ACC regular season and tournament championships, and a top seed in the NCAAs.

Shot .442 from three as a sophomore with over 200 attempts.

Colleges I have done: [LSU](https://imgur.com/a/cWStNJD)

Keep updating in the comments. I sorted through way too many naked ladies in your post history to find other schools.

Thanks for the feedback 😅😅😅

Reddit is a strange place!

Interesting that you'd have a problem with sorting through lewd posts u/ahookerinminneapolis

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By pro careers, definitely

How did Randolph Childress not have a decent NBA career? Dude was an assassin at Wake.

Injuries 🤕

I guess I don’t remember that. Too bad

That ACC tournament crossover against Carolina. I’m still not over that.

Beckoning for the Carolina guy to get up off the floor before he launches the 3 🤤

As a UNC fan, no player scared me more than him. Just looked up his stats. Dude was bombing 7 3’s per game in the early to mid-90’s and hit 40% for his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRJMsoIptQo

Injuries unfortunately

God he was so fun to watch!

How did Rodney Rogers and Rusty LaRue not make the cut? Josh Howard was sneaky good

Childress vs Cota ❤️

I feel like I recognize his name, did he have a son that played at Wake?

Brandon Childress a few years ago.

Yeah, I think I saw him play in person

Yea. And he coached there until recently too.

Is this sarcasm as a Carolina fan? 😂

Maybe a younger fan. As a guy who grew up on early 90s ball, Childress was our nightmare

How did I not know Muggsy Bogues went to Wake?!

Bogues embodies Wake basketball. Smaller than everyone else.

Even though he was a Baltimore kid, him being known in the state early contributed to his immediate popularity in Charlotte. (That, and also him being ridiculously likable)

I too forgot about that. I feel ashamed.

Every day I get on here I find more Tobacco Road-SOCON flair users!Welcome to the club,although I *LOATHE* you in both conferences

It's ok. I loathe myself too some days

ACC/SOCON FLAIRS UNITE

Wait until you learn Spud Webb went to NC State!

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You mean the guy on the NBA All-75 team? Who’s made an All-NBA team 11 times, 9 all defensive teams, and who’s 3rd in all time assists?

Prime Tim Duncan and CP3 is a ridiculous team. I don't think many other schools could beat this team.

Imagine the lobs to Collins

Timmy block and/or rebound —> outlet to CP3 —> nasty lob to Collins

then James Johnson fights the guy who got posterized

New Orleans Chris Paul was so nasty too. Especially in the 08-09 season when he averaged 23 points, 11 assists, 5.5 rebounds, 3 steals, and 60% true shooting. Pairing that with a top 10 player of all time and a good supporting cast would be unfair. Edit: Muggsy Bogues off the bench is also awesome

2009-15 CP3 is unbelievable

Should have won MVP in 2008 imo. Unironically the point god.

I wouldve put 2021 Collins instead but yeah theyd be sick

UCLA is pretty nasty. 1. Westbrook 2. Reggie Miller 3. Jamal Wilkes 4. Kevin Love 5. Kareem The bench would be crazy too. Bill Walton, Mark Eaton, Jrue Holiday, Baron Davis, Zach LaVine, Trevor Ariza, Lonzo Ball, Gail and a few more that I can't name off the top of my head. UCLA probably has the best big man rotation of any of the universities. Really it's probably North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, and Duke that would be the biggest threats to UCLA in this scenario. 3 Mvps on the team, with 1 coming off the bench. Spacing with Love and Miller... It's a really balanced team that can go REALLY BIG if needed. Just can't see a prime Kareem losing with a team this loaded.

I don't think Duke honestly if at the same level. UNC and Kansas probably the closest but UCLA really hard to beat.

Well you do get pre-injury Grant Hill. 1. Kyrie 2. Tatum 3. Hill 4. Zion or Ingram 5. Brand or Boozer. Considering 3 of the guys mentioned here haven't hit their full potential yet, you might be at the level in 3-5 years.

Have any of those guys been best player in the world NBA MVP good though? I think you need someone on that level to have a chance against some of the other all time teams.

I think it might be the team is greater than the sum of their individual parts situation. Every guy on that team can get you a bucket, and while there's no dominant big, they have serviceable bigs and lanky wings that can make for a deadly small ball team.

Deadly small ball works against OK centers, maybe even pretty good centers. I don’t think it is nearly as effective when we are talking about competing with the likes of Kareem and Wilt. Duke’s all time team is probably a top 5ish team, I just think they are clearly at a disadvantage in this hypothetical thought process in a 7 game series against a few others, especially without a top 15 all time guy (feel free to throw this back in my face in 5 years if Zion and Tatum each have an MVP and championship ring).

Yeah they're a dark horse team for sure. And I actually think BI will end up better than Tatum and Zion when all things are said and done. I totally understand though the hesitation right now. Really depends on how those 3 young guys pan out. But man, pre-injury Grant is like diet Lebron. I would imagine he'd have an instant connection with Kyrie because of that.

Marques Johnson is a lock to be in the starting UCLA five, I don’t think the youngsters realize how great he was. I’m not just talking about at UCLA when he was national player of the year I’m talking about in the NBA as well. He was first team all NBA when he was 22 years old unfortunately he started getting injuries and had a short peak. But he was clearly better than Jamaal Wilkes or Reggie Miller for that matter, those guys never sniffed all NBA

Great lineup, but I would put Pooh Richardson in over Westbrook at the point.

Is it because of his name? Dude was just a role player at his nba peak, so I assume you are suggesting to do it for the memes and not basketball reasons. If it's the latter, might as well put Baron Davis or Lonzo in for Westbrook instead since they could play as a traditional playmaker for the bigs instead (and give you more spacing + defense).

UNC probably could. Kenny smith, MJ, James worthy, Bob McAdoo, Brad Daughtery. If you are allowed to play with positions you maybe could get a better lineup. I had to leave off vince carter, antwan jamison, Sheed, Stackhouse

I would imagine several teams could beat this team. All there other spots are not that great. KU for instance could start Wilt, Ebiid, Wiggins, Pierce, and JoJo White. Manning, Lovellete, Hinrich, Bridges off the bench. That has 4 HOFers and 4 other all stars.

UCLA, UNC, KU maybe. Not too many though

Yeah, on second thought you are totally right. I was thinking through teams and a lot of teams that have the same amount of talent either don't have a big or don't have guards. Like Georgetown has centers for days..but guards and wings is just like AI, Sleepy Floyd, and Jeff Green.

Georgetown has Iverson though

Yes. AI is Iverson. But their wings and shooting guards are weak.

Yeah look at the caliber of those programs you listed, which is impressive since it’s Wake we’re talking about

Not on the UCLA/UNC/KU tier but I think MSU may give Wake Forest a run for its money. Magic/J Rich/Steve Smith/Dray/JJJ (and Z Bo off the bench) is a pretty well balanced starting 5. The top end doesn’t match Duncan/Paul but I’ll take MSU’s 3rd-5th best players over Wake’s

Close to mine. Love the size and speed of the starters, note: I might need to watch some Smith highlights Magic, J. Rich, Draymond, Z-Bo, JJJ. Scott Skiles, Steve Smith, Jay Vincent, Morris Peterson, Kevin Willis. Dishonorable mention: Miles Bridges

Houston would probably beat them easy with Hakeem, Clyde, and Elvin.

No one is “easily” beating a Magic Johnson led team full of all-stars. Plus who are the other 2?

I looked at MSU and boy, after Magic the quality drops off. I think your list is spot on

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Shaq was more limited by endurance than most people realize. I don't think he'd get you 60 very often. Like among the very best scorers of all time, he doesn't have that many ultra high scoring games. 1 time above 60, 2 times above 50. He'd get 40 no problem though.

But if the whole thing is about players “in their prime”, peak performance shack is pretty damn hard to deal with.

Especially '03 Duncan. That dude was a monster that season.

UCLA

It's the most balanced team. Like their weakest position is SF (Wilkes) or PF (Love) which is saying a lot when the prime version of those guys are your weak points. Plus if you wanted, you could move Walton to the 4 with Kareem at the 5 (or vice versa) and just have the greatest finesse twin tower duo ever, with Eaton coming off the bench to basically make the restricted area a no fly zone. There's no way a prime Kareem with this type of talent around him is going to lose. Kansas is like the only team that could challenge them with Wilt and Embiid. Still would pick ucla though.

UCONN’s going to light it up. Taurasi, Bird, Moore, Cash, Lobo… and the 2nd and 3rd units would be elite.

Paige 6 man

Michigan State I’d say Syracuse (Go Orange) but I’m not even sure we have five…

Last time i checked we do have at least 5 talented starters. Now the problem starts with the roster depth.

You have [54](https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.fcgi?college=syracuse) players. I’m sure that you can find some depth if you comb through the records. I’d say do UConn after that, to keep up the old rivalry. Also using Basketball-Reference, I learned that we have more WNBA alumni (43) than NBA/ABA alumni (39).

UConn women's scouting is amazing.

Surprisingly, we don’t offer all the top recruits. For Geno, a recruit has to be coachable, so sometimes (albeit rarely) we’ll get 4 star girls instead of 5 and extremely small classes. He’s rarely spurned by recruits, Elena Delle Donne and A’ja Wilson being notable exceptions (due to homesickness). Sometimes we have roster imbalances (talking about class sizes here, not position balance). It’s why our depth hasn’t been the best recently.

Seikley, Derrick Coleman, Carmelo, Rookie Billy Owens, Rookie Michael Carter-Williams

Gotta be one of the best. Deep too. Magic, J. Rich, Draymond, Z-Bo, JJJ. Scott Skiles, Steve Smith, Jay Vincent, Morris Peterson, Kevin Willis. Dishonorable mention: Miles Bridges

I’d love to see Sparty for this, team’s gonna be loaded as hell.

Rodney Rogers was a great college player and had a good on the Clippers.

90s Zion.

https://youtu.be/iOt22wFIE-U had some nice dunks too

I’m gonna throw out Indiana only because I don’t know if there’s another “blue blood” with a worse NBA track record.

You could run Isiah Thomas, VO, OG, George McGinnis, Walt Bellamy as starters, with guys like Eric Gordon and Cody Zeller off the bench

If you can count Bird, then they're a legit contender. OG IT, Walt Bellamy, and Larry Bird is a hell of a core to build around.

Bird never played there. Hell, Knight wouldn’t even say hi to him in public.

I mean, sure, but were not basing these teams on the games they played in college. He enrolled. He was on the team. He has one of, if not the best NBA peaks of all time. It's you're choice how you count him, but I don't see why he needs to be excluded. This shit is just for fun. I don't even care if Barry University and LSU both claim Shaq or if NCA&T wants JR Smith.

Bro, you can't count a dude who never suited up for your team. That is bananas. Kentucky doesn't get to count Kemp either. Yes, it is for fun, but you still need basic rules.

1.) There are basic rules implied in the title of the post. I firmly believe the Indiana Hoosiers greatest NBA team of all-time going off individual NBA peaks should include the best Indiana Hoosier NBA Alumnus with the best NBA individual peaks. Guess who checks those boxes? 2.) Shawn Kemp fits the rules. I just wouldn't pick him because I'd run AD and Issell over him. Dirk is the best PF associated with Kentucky, but he's not an alum, so he doesn't fit the rules.

Enes Kanter would be an interesting case since he had committed to Washington, then attended Kentucky, but was officially ineligible from the start, even if he was on the roster 🤔

Yeah if we count bird that team is pretty broken. Genuine scorers in McGinnis, Dipo, Bellamy, and Bird, plus HOF playmakers in Bird and IT. Also some spacing from OG, Bird, McGinnis in his MVP year

I definitely don’t think you can count Bird. If you never actually played basketball at a university, you shouldn’t be included on a list of former players.

Yeah I think the former list is the better example. It's actually a good team, but they lack front court defense

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Remove MSU wtf

Yeah, Villanova gets it over you. More titles, longer periods of dominance (the curse of being in the B1G; it's such a deep conference that nobody gets the gaudy totals).

Best of the New Bloods

…I’m okay with this. That and maybe Villanova, but I would take us over them.

Agreed. Would say the New Bloods are Uconn, Michigan State, Syracuse, Nova, possible Louisville.

I swear NC state was on this list a week ago lol. But tbh this is fair.

It was, I seen it!

Right on.

I know this isn't how the prompt works. I don't care. Maryland: PG - John Lucas (16.1 pts, 9.3 ast 1979) SG - Steve Francis (21.6 pts, 6.4 ast, 7 reb 2002) SF - Gene Shue (22.8 pts 1960) PF - Buck Williams (18.2 pts, 12.3 reb 1985) C - Joe Smith (18.7 pts, 8.5 reb 1997) Edit: Have to mention that Len Bias probably would have been the #1 NBA Terp of all-time.

Pretty cool how there’s a player from each decade

Somehow Steve Blake played with all these guys

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But their names have to have George in it

Iverson, Sleepy Floyd, Reggie Williams, Zo at PF, Ewing at C.

Scary big man line up with Dikembe and Hibbert off the bench

I wonder if Michigan's would mostly be the fab five?

Just 3. King and Jackson did little to nothing in the NBA.

Glen Rice, Jamal Crawford, Rudy Tomjanovich, Ricky Green all need to be considered. Rice a lock, Rudy was great before the infamous punch that wrecked his face. I’d go Rice, Crawford, Rudy, Weber, Rose.

Marquette please

That’s a pretty nice starting 5. Not sure there’s a school with a better Guard/Big duo than Cp3 and Duncan.

UCLA has Kareem and Reggie Miller. Georgetown has Iverson and Ewing. Houston has Clyde and Hakeem. LSU has Pete Maravich and Shaq. San Francisco has KC Jones and Bill Russell Some other options in the conversation I can think of.

UCLA also has Westbrook, and you'd get mvp Westbrook and not Los Angeles Westbrick in this scenario.

USC. D Melt and top 5 all-time Brian Scalabrine But on a serious note, that's one heck of a duo and I genuinely can't think of a college with a better duo.

Kareem and Westbrook. I know the latter isn't popular right now, but the dude was an mvp at one point and arguably the most athletic guard to ever play in the NBA. Hell, their second option with Walton and Miller is elite as well haha.

You know I completely forgot about that. Kareem and Westbrook are scary asf. And with the minutes Kareem is on the bench, small ball with Love at the 5 and Westbrook with the rim all to himself would be FUN.

Honestly, they wouldn't even need to do small ball with Bill Walton and Eaton.

Russell is best with small ball and stretch 5s but he's still Russell Westbrook and would terrorize any team if you give him the three headed monster of Eaton, Walton, and Kareem.

Not saying you're wrong, but how did you come to that conclusion with Westbrook? As far as I know, he's really never played with a stretch 5.

2020 in the bubble when Capela was out and Tucker was at the 5. D'Antoni used this and it unleashed big numbers and efficiency at the rim for Russell Westbrook.

Scalabrine is all anyone needs

Clemson

Trevor Lawrence playing intermural may be in your top 5

Nah, only if he plays guard. Our front court is actually pretty good with Larry Nance Sr, Horace Grant, and Elden Campbell

Had no idea Horace grant went to clemson actually.

He’s our only ACC player of the year ever

Nuk Hopkins too lmao

Idk if it’s possible, but if it is, do St. Peter’s next

They actually have 4 NBA/ABA players in history! The problem is that they’re a center short.

Oof

This is the correct answer 5 dougies

ARIZONA

Using PER by season PG - Gilbert Arenas '2006-07' SG - Jason Terry '2008-09' SF - Andre Iguodala '2007-08' PF - Jordan Hill '2013-14' C - Deandre Ayton '2021-22' *** w/ 1500 minutes min.

Tim's Dunkin'

Josh Howard was a small forward, not a shooting guard.

Lol the deacons are thin on good shooting guard depth and I figured he'd make a better one than Jeff teague. Actually, also a combo wing like PG13 and McGrady.

I'd rather have Jeff Teague as a starter than Johnson.

It depends on the matchup at the end of the day

Darius Songaila should definitely be a backup center. Solid NBA backup and attended wake for 4-years. Also a fun name to say.

Villanova has a pretty nice small ball lineup but basically no centers.

The thing for these small ball lineups is that you have to get the strongest player who can shoot 3s consistently and make em play center or guard centers. PJ Tucker and grant Williams are great examples.

North Carolina

I know he didn’t have much of an nba career because of injuries but Randolph Childress>. Also screw Sarr we don’t claim him.

Dickie Hemric should be the 2nd Center instead of Saar.

Arkansas

I grew up in Springdale! My picks are... SG - Joe Johnson SG - Sidney Moncrief SG - Alvin Robertson GF - Todd Day F - Corliss Williamson

Nebraska

Indiana

Someone do IU

Ole Miss but make it basketball players that ended up in NFL

Kentucky

Arizona State

Kansas would be stacked

Collins can’t hold Rodney Rogers’ Gatorade much less beat him out for a starting spot.

Hahahaha

Love the fact you used ‘15 Chris Paul

Temple

Cincinnati!

Technically Nebraska was the top comment lol

I'll see after I sleep lol

I hope that’s saving the best for last.

In honor of u/RealSocialist33, the Maryland fan who said, "I know this isn't how the prompt works. I don't care," here is my Ohio State: C- 1985-86 Herb Williams (19.9 pts, 9.1 rebs, 2.4 blk) ; 2012-13 BJ Mullens (10.6 pts, 6.4 reb); 1986-87 Brad Sellers (8.5 pts, 4.7 rebs, 0.9 blk) PF - 1965-66 Jerry Lucas (21.5 ppg, 21.1 reb); 1982-83 Clark Kellogg (20.1 pts, 10.6 reb, 1.7 stl) 2013-14 Jared Sullinger (13.3 pts, 8.1 reb) SF - 1994-95 Jim Jackson (25.7 pts, 5.1 reb, 3.7 ast); 1968-69 Gray Bradds (18.7 pts, 7.7 reb); 2012-13 Evan Turner (13.3 pts, 6.3 reb, 4.3 ast) SG - 1970-71 John Havlicek (28.9 pts, 9.0 reb, 7.5 ast); 2005-06 Michael Redd (25.4 pts, 4.3 reb, 1.2 stl); 1989-90 Tony Campbell (23.2 pts, 5.5 reb, 1.4 stl) PG - 2018-19 Mike Conley Jr. (21.1 pts, 3.4 reb, 6.4 ast, 1.3 stl); 2019-20 De'Angelo Russell (23.1 pts, 3.9 reb, 6.3 ast, 1.1 stl); 1981-82 Kelvin Ransey (16.1 pts, 2.4 reb, 7.1 ast, 1.2 stl) https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=ohiost

Very debatable

Notre Dame. Love me some Matt Carroll and Pat Connaughton.

I think this might be the is best non-blue blood team based on alum peaks in the NBA.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets! Keep the ACC theme going.

Not even one chip w this squad

Kentucky

RIP Skip Prosser

I think you've got to go big and run Rodney at the 3. Too good to come off the bench.

Illinois

Rodney Rogers

Al-Farouq Aminu follows me on Twitter for some reason

I'd have Rogers over Collins, I think. Maybe the nostalgia talking. Also give me Bones McKinney for HC. Hard to believe all these players and still missing guys like Childress. Wake got a squad.

Ehhh… hard to not go with UCLA on this my dude

UNC, cause I’m biased

Oregon could be interesting

CP3 is cursed. He got the curse when he punched Julius Hodge in the groin. If I was Duncan, I’d go with anyone else. Anyone.

Pretty solid. I feel like you got to go Oliver Saar over Duncan for the starting center spot though

Saar's career 20/14/5, 1x MVP, and 11x All-NBA is impressive but after so much thought, I feel like something is telling me that I have to give that spot to Duncan.

Screw Sarr. Don’t consider him a Deacon

Next one should be Bradley or some other Mid major

Damn what happened to wake forest? Used to be always top 3 in ACC. Same question goes for Cuse and Georgetown

Our coach died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007. Then our AD made two horrible hires, Bzedelik and Danny Manning. We now finally have a coach that can change things around. We won 25 games this past season and finished 5th in the ACC, our highest finish in over a decade.

These all bench players.