NBA is in lockout, How about a southern version of Drew League Team

Hakeem Olajuwon lol

as is Jermaine O’Neal. Garnett just went to a Chicago factory for his senior season while O’Neal stayed home. And no way Leslie or Thompkins should be anywhere near this team.
 Off the top of my head,
Chris Paul and Ray Felton at the point (both raised and went to school in the Carolinas)
Howard, Noah, Horford, Smoove and Jefferson at the 4/5. Add Luol Deng at the 3, Ray Allen (SC native) at the 2, add Kevin Martin, Gerald Wallace, Al Farouq Aminu, Jamario Moon, and Chris Singleton to the wing bench.

God truly does have a sense of humor

Josh Smith is a 3rd string power forward, Tyrus Thomas is the 2nd string SF, ahead of Thaddeus Young and behind Derrick Favors.

Favors is no Dirk or Durant.
     He can score on anybody but defensively he is probably not best at power forward. Maybe I’m wrong he can guard the wings for long time.

But calling him an SF? this is too ironic:

Thus exhausts the tour of Lawrence for the No. 1 high school junior in the country, a 6-foot-9, 220-pound KU target who, despite the groanings of his coach, insists he is a small foward and occasionally fires a 23-footer to prove it.

One of those occasions was Saturday night in the Jayhawk Invitational in Lawrence, where Favors’ Atlanta Celtics AAU team was facing the St. Louis Raptors in a matcup akin to train vs. tricycle. Favors — and this is fairly illustrative of the event’s magnitude — came off the bench for the Celtics and on his first offensive trip, spun past a tricyclist for a layup. On the next, he merely caught the ball on the wing and, from 23 feet, deposited it in the bottom of the net.

Favors 5, Difficulty 0.

The rest of the game happened, but it didn’t matter. The Celtics won by 50 or 55 or 240. But it was that 3-pointer that stuck out to Celtics coach Jamar Stegall.

“Don’t print that,” he said, laughing. “You’re causing me trouble.”

Trouble, because Stegall, whose program currently has more alums in the NBA (14) than does Kansas (8), would just as soon use Favors’ considerable advantages in size and ability in the paint, a point he has tried to impress upon the young star, but with mixed results.

When Favors canned the 3, he pointed at Stegall and smiled.

“He say I got a broke jumper,” Favors explained.

This is Favors’ dilemma. As a power forward, he is better than everybody else. As a small foward, he is a work in progress, but a work he intends to progress.

“I work on it because I want to be an all-round player,” he said. “I don’t want to just be a post player. I work on my jump shot, 3-pointer, ball handling.”

and I say this as a huge fan of the man. But for a team right now, Mario West is the better player. Travis is all tools, and not a player yet, especially not an NBA player. He’s weak defensively, weak in handle, weak in outside shooting. Not exactly NBA skills for someone 6’4.