NBA coaches need different lineups for different reasons, and ideally they'll have one at the ready for any situation.
It could be a five-man scorching machine to deploy when a crunch-time bucket is desperately needed. Or a stone-wall quintet to protect a late-game lead. There are energy units to get teams out of a funk and stable ones that simply attempt to maintain a contest's flow.
Correctly assembling those lineups can take weeks, months or even years. We don't have that kind of time—but luckily, we're only building one group and using the most enjoyable criterion.
Which lineups make our hoops senses tingle the most? If each team prioritized entertainment over all else, which five players would it put on the floor?
Those are subjective inquiries, and as such, our attempts to answer them rely on the eye test. But we've also used the stat sheet where we can to help determine who works best together to yield the most aesthetically pleasing results.
Now, these have to be lineups that could realistically see floor time together this season. That means two things. First, no one who is already out for the year is eligib ...
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