Current NBA-4 West round 2: Horry33 vs. Jmcballer88

First to 4 votes wins!

Anyone is welcome to vote, but please break it down. You can use this scheme:

Frontcourt (who has better SF-PF-C)
Backcourt (who has better guard combo)
Bench
Offense
Defense
Chemistry (which team's players fit on the court better)

Or just give main reasons why you think one team will win.
If there's no explanation, the vote won't count.

If no one gets 4 (explained) votes till 11 pm, we'll count the poll. Winning the poll gives 1 vote, and it's also a tiebreaker.

Horry33

PG: Tony Parker
SG: Tony Allen
SF: Danny Granger
PF: LaMarcus Aldridge
C: DeMarcus Cousins

Bench
Jason Kidd
Avery Bradley
David West

vs.

Jmcballer88

PG Stephen Curry
SG Ray Allen
SF Nicolas Batum
PF Zach Randolph
C Dwight Howard

Bench
Jason Terry
Chase Budinger
Patrick Patterson

 

Frontline - Jmc, but it's close.
Granger is much better than Batum, he was the best Pacers player last year and one of emotional leaders on both ends.
Aldridge considerably better than ZBO last year (though on ZBO good year they are comparable).
Howard over Cousins by a lot. I'm a huge fan of Cousins atm, he certainly has talent (to me, his upside is a small Sabonis). But right now, he does stupid things offensively sometimes and fouls a lot + his defense is pretty average. But he's tough, strong, proud and will battle Howard until he fouls out. When he fouls out though, Horry can just go with West+Aldridge at 5, which is a nice frontline too.
Overall, Jmc by a bit.

backcourt - Horry. Tony Parker had a Rose-like 2nd half of the season. Curry is good, but not close. Ray Allen over Tony Allen, but they are close at this point in overall impact.

bench - Horry.

offense - Jmc. Horry has a ton of offensive talent, but the spacing is pretty lacking. It's basically a twin tower up front, but Granger is the only 3pt shooter. At least the bigs can hit a jumper, but still, i don't love two post up bigs + Tony Parker penetrating next to so little shooting. It will be crowded. Not to mention that the other side will have Howard+ZBO. There will be very little room for Horry to work offensively.

Jmc has great shooting, post up big in Howard, offensive boards. He lacks a penetrating guard like Parker, but it's a great offense overall.

defense - even. Jmc has better defense inside, Howard is just at a different level compared to Cousins.
Granger and Batum comparable defensively, maybe an advantage to Granger due to his overall toughness / scrappy attitude / defensive leadership (Granger has improved a lot defensively last year).
Parker and Curry are comparable.
But Tony Allen over Ray Ray makes it even.

chemistry - Jmc. Jmc has great chemistry, guys complement each other. Ideally, ZBO would be more efficient on his jumpers and Stephen Curry would be able to penetrate a bit better. But still, it's a group that compliments each other very well.

I loved Horry's team more when he had Love+Kyrie. Now it's very packed, a lot of guys operate in the same areas. This team might actually work best with a Parker-Kidd-Granger-West-Aldridge lineup.
I like that this team has Granger-West, these two have great chemistry, especially emotionally. Replace them with Batum-Ibaka or something on the Pacers, I think the Pacers got from the 3rd in the East to out of playoffs.

Overall - Horry's bench keeps the series close. But I think Jmc wins it.

 

I meant "I'm not"

 

Jmc wins the poll (3-2) and gets another vote.

In total, JMC wins 2:0.