Quote Originally Posted by Truth&Justise View Post
Continuity matters, but many championship teams have shown that having stars matters even more. Stars in basketball have an outsized influence as compared to other sports. Utah and Denver have great rosters and should be near the top of the West, but you can only play 5 players at a time, so you're at a disadvantage if you don't have a LeBron, Kawhi, Curry, etc. Now not every team with a star is a contender, but having a star can cover for many other flaws (see Zion's effect on last year's Duke team).

Toronto showed that you can win a title with only 8 players. So that bodes well for teams with a few stars and a short rotation.
Van Vleet shot 16-40 from 3 in the Finals and averaged 14 ppg.

Siakam averaged 20 ppg for the series and put up 32 in game 1 and 26 in the clincher.

Who is doing that for the Lakers next year outside Lebron and Davis? I think they screwed up the roster so bad last year that their rotation will be a mess this year.

Toronto's 8 >>>> Lakers 8