What does it mean to build your basketball team around a certain person?

Question

This is for nba live 07, and i'm building my team around lebrone james, i have, nene at center, dirk at pf, lebron at sf, adam morrison at sg and kirk hinrich at the point.

Answer 1

To get complimentary players that fit the skill set of your star.

Answer 2

In real life, basketball teams build around a single player since the starting lineup consists of five individuals. When a general manager in the NBA builds a team, they usually have to focus on the contractual terms and skill values of their best athelete.

For instance, with your team, LeBron James would be your franchise star, and thus, as a responsible GM, you would look to add pieces that will fit with LeBron while maintaining the appropriate salary cap figures. Here's some questions a GM would have to answer:

1. What type of player is LeBron? (slashing forward? three point specialist? Power 3 or 4? Oversized PG?)

2. What types of players will help LeBron on the four remaining starting positions? (Obviously, a ball hogging SG will butt heads with LeBron, as would a poor-passing center who demanded the ball more than 40% of the time in the paint)

3. If LeBron is a max contract players, what are the salary demands of my starting four?

4. Who will be my bench players?

So, you see, there's alot of questions that need to be addressed when you build a team around a single player.

Looking at your NBA Live '07 team, I'd say that you have some great role players (Morrison, Hinrich) but you could definitely improve to a better defensive center (Nene is an average PF). Additionally, I like Dirk as your 4, but in reality, I don't know if you could afford to keep LeBron, Dirk, Morrison (especially when he asks for a max deal in his fourth year), and without looking at your six and seven on your roster, whomever else on your bench.

For a game, though...nice team.

Answer 3

Building a team around a guy is when you have a superstar, u build around his weakness. The spurs have done the best job of building around duncan. For instance duncan can do just about everything a big man should, except run the floor well. So you have a guy like tony parker and ginobilli run the floor, get a guy like micheal finley or robert horry, so when duncan gets double teamed by the small forward u have a guy who can hit open shots. Thats how you build a team around a guy. You dont do what the nugetts did. U dont go out and get a guy who wants to shoot more than the guy your trying to build around. The idea of shot first pass never, will never win more than a playoff berth at best.

Answer 4

Well, Lebron is the main focus now you get role players to support your superstar. Because in real NBA unless you are paying a lot of luxury tax you can't have superstars at every position.

Answer 5

Yeah that sounds like you cheated, but it means that this person is the one person that is the focal point of your team. Such as Jordan was to the bulls, That means you draft and trade people to basically compliment your star player.

Answer 6

it means getting players who compliment their skills and not to compete with them, so for the knicks they wanted to build around stephon marbury so they got jamal crawford and eddy curry,

BUT then they got jerome james and steve francis and that would be an example of how to not build around a player

Answer 7

it means you get players that compliment his game. he is the main guy though so you try to get players that are going to make him better and therefore win more games.