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I'm a faker-hater so it's my job to say that, but objectively, I still would see some problems with a lineup like that, especially for Payton and Malone.
Granted, I haven't seen them play and probably never will (I would rather sit through a Britney Spears movie), but I can speculate based on the results and boxscore. I'm aware that boxscore doesn't really tell the whole story, but it's fun anyway and gives us some insight as to the outcome.
It's only preseason blah..blah..blah, but bear with me; The Clippers beat the fakers yesterday 107-101 despite only 22 and 24 minutes played by Elton Brand and Corey Maggette, respectively. While the faker four played regular season-like minutes, 30, 33, 32, 32.
There are two points I'd like to make. One, the Clippers didn't have Andre Miller and Lamar Odom, which would've made up their "big" four. I think we all remember how that turned out (same reasoning with the fakers). And secondly, I don't know how long the faker four were on together last night, but the fact that each of them spent that much time on the court (30+ mins) means at least 2 of them had to be on the court for a potentially productive amount of time. I would think the purpose of stacking your team is not to have all your best players together all the time, but to make sure that at least one or two of them are always on while the others rest.
But meh, it's all preseason. We'll see what happens.
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