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Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan and Jonas Valanciunas, Toronto Raptors
Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan and Jonas Valanciunas, Toronto Raptors / Tom Szczerbowski/GettyImages
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Which team wins the game?

We'll assume for the sake of the exercise that the two teams are playing a single game, not a series, and that they will be playing under modern rules. That's not quite as jarring for the Raptors' earliest players in the 1990s as it would be for, say, Bill Russell and Bob Cousy suiting up for the Celtics, but it's worth noting.

The scoring ability of Team 1 is truly daunting. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that four of the five best isolation scorers in franchise history (with Scottie Barnes still working his way up the ladder) are on Team 1, including the bruising Jonas Valanciunas inside.

Yet games are won by teams, not individual scorers, and it's without question that that group is worse than the sum of its parts. Team 2, on the other hand, fits together in a much more cohesive way, with a clear No. 1 scorer, a pair of supporting stars and the ultimate glue guys in Kyle Lowry and Antonio Davis.

In one game anything could happen, of course, but the most likely outcome is that Team 2 finds a path to victory, with Lowry taking a timely charge on his former backcourt partner DeMar DeRozan and Vince Carter salting away the victory with a vicious dunk. Davis is able to contain Valanciunas, Siakam can stop Chris Bosh from taking over and the offense is too much "my-turn-your-turn" to truly sing.

Team 2 wins this one, 106-100

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