Would an all-Lebron team be invincible? (And what about all-Durant, all-Leonard, etc.?)

A while back, I posed the question of which is more powerful, 5 centers (say 5 Shaq) vs 5 guards (say 5 Iversons) in a full court NBA regulation game. The slight consensus seems to be that 5 Iversons would win due to superior shooting and ball handling. I don't know that I agree but certainly its plausible.

But I think its fair to say that if you actually had a team of all Shaqs or all Iversons and put them out there to play a full NBA season, it would not be too successful. At least it would not be expected to win a championship. I don't think an all Shaq or all Iverson team would beat Warriors, Spurs or Rockets at full strength. There would be too many weaknesses to exploit either way.

But then I thought, wouldn't an all Lebron team easily work and easily beat the likes of Warriors, Spurs, Rockets at full strength? What weakness could you exploit on a team with all Lebrons???

And if so, are there any other players that you could clone x 12 and easily contend for the championship? (Say 12 Kevin Durants or 12 Kawhi Leonards or 12 Draymond Greens or 12 James Hardens, etc.)

 

There would be no need for GMs since there is no decisions to be made for personnel. There would however be 5-12 de-facto head coaches.

 

Just like the 5 Shaqs vs 5 Iversons, I thought it would just be a fun thought experiment.

Not sure if serious but a team of only Steph Currys would be very beatable. Not big or tall enough to rebound or defend against bigs. If playing against Spurs you could just keep dumping it to Gasol, Aldridge, Lee, etc and score at will in the interior. Also all-Curry team would get out-rebounded easily. I mean I guess the all-Currys could try to outshoot the Spurs but I don't know that they could when Spurs would score at will in the paint.

A team of all Kevin Durants or all Draymond Greens OTOH would be very formidable as you couldn't abuse the paint that easily. Nor could you out-rebound it by large margins.

 

It wasn't a team of Iversons vs a top-NBA team. It was a team of all Iversons vs all Shaqs. In that thread people claimed that Iversons would get shots off of Shaqs as he couldn't defend on the perimeter. Also all-Iversons would be able to press to steal and create turnovers to negate Shaqs size. So it was plausible to some that an all-Iverson team could beat an all-Shaq team.

But no way could an all-Iverson team beat Warriors, Spurs or Rockets. Similarly an all-Curry team couldn't beat the Warriors, Spurs or Rockets either. That's different than beating some hypothetical all-Shaq team.

 

A team of 5 Giannis would get beatened more times than not by 5 Lebrons I would think. Giannis doesn't have enough shooting skills so the Lebrons just pack inside and dare Giannis to shoot. Also does Giannis have enough ball handling skills? If not than it just means getting the ball stolen and turning it over a lot to the Lebrons.

I don't think it would be close. 5 Lebrons easily win.

5 Durants vs 5 Lebrons would be far more interesting. I think an all-Durant vs all-Lebron team would be very evenly matched although I might give the all-Lebron team a slight edge.