NBA 2K14: Can Defense Win You A Championship?

[Gramps91]

I must admit, this was a pretty cool idea. Interesting read.

[The 24th Letter]

Really really liked this!

[nhthelegend]

Cool idea, but the result isn't very surprising. This team would fare similarly poorly in real life as well.

[HunterK13]

Defense wins championships is a dumb cliche. It's always the team with the best balance. Point differential is what wins championships. And there are lots of ways to get great point differentials.

[therizing02]

Awesome job Zac. Interesting results and believable!

[Optik]

While this is indeed a good idea, the method didn't match the hypothesis. Instead of choosing a team with virtually no offense and all defense and then wrongly concluding from this that defense doesn't win championships, you should have just chosen an average offense (so that you're ranked 15th in it) which also happens to be the best defense. Of course, expecting this team to be win the championship would be baseless since as has already been said there would be teams with a better combination of offense and defense.

[fsujoseph]

If you put Lebron at SF this team could be so dominant defensively and have a 30PPG scorer

[Rockie_Fresh88]

This is cool. You could've added more diverse players who are still defensive minded. Like Batum, Hibbert, Rondo, etc.

For the players you picked I was impressed with the record. I wish ppg allowed was lower than 99 though.

Hell I'm going to try this lol