Yeah, there is flat out nobody that gives you the advanced stats along with the minutes for near the same salary as those 7. The only one that you can come close to is Ray Allen.
For example:
Who else can give you 44% rebounding (18 oreb, 26 dreb), 70% paint scoring, 23% usg at almost 55% efg% while playing a shade under 3400 minutes for 9-million bucks?
Nobody.
For 5.5 million (cost of 05-06 Allen) you can get any number of great shooting guards who'll fill it up from 3, have a good tov%, decent ast% and will get to the free throw line more. The 00-01 version costs a little more, but only has a higher efg%. The 02-03 (i think that's the right year... 2525 minute version) is another extremely popular one. Reggie Miller gives you remarkably similar stuff for around the same price, though you do lose some minutes and defensive boards (but get more ftas). Many, many other guys fill that position. But I don't know anybody you can get 3360 minutes for 4.6 million bucks who has an efg% of almost 55% - especially with 200+ 3PM and 500+ FTA. Oh, and he has a low tov% (talking about Rice, obviously).
Nash is retardedly awesome. What other PG can you get 58% efg%, 30%+ ast%, 23%+ usg for under 6 million bucks? There are a couple that come close. Don't need the usage? Oh, there's a really good version of him that has less than 23% usage. And then there's Barros. Ridiculous. 57% efg%, 3300 minutes, 200ish 3pm, under 23% usg%, 25% ast% - for roughly six and a half million bucks. I've never used either of these guys, but I really want to use Barros at least once. Trouble is, to beat these type teams consistently, I like point guards who are more aggressive (higher usage, more ftas) like Billups, KJ and Magic.
I definitely see halls point and agree with him, but I see gerry's point, too. Threes and boards are what drive the current version of the sim. I don't care if people build teams with 1250 3PM... I just get tired of seeing nash and peja in every one of them with moses/rodman in the frontcourt, forcing me to draft a retarded amount of rebounds over 3 positions just to compete (without using those same guys).
Halls, I suggest you check out longtallbrad's post in the sim forum...
I'm also thinking about putting together another no 3pt bomber challenge. I got a lot going right now, though, so it'll probably be late April before I get around to making any theme leagues.