LOL, this is turning into a nice little flame war, and the mods might step in if you two take it much further.

@bxgreatone87 doesn't it make sense to take into account charachter growth? And did you not watch the Sasuke chase arc? Who came to the aid of the team when their backs were against the wall?

@Mizuchi you're arguing that a guy who left the village and only cares about gaining power for himself would be a good team player...how do you justify that? He might have worked well in the past, but like I said a perfect team should be drawn from the states the charachters were in at the end of the original storyline. And Sasuke was not in any kind of team building state at that point.

Also your use of Naruto is pretty much as a wrecking ball, most missions aren't all about going and destroying everything in site, other potential team members have similar destructive ability while also bringing non combat skills to the team. What are Naruto's non-combat skills at this point? If the mission was to not engage the enemyand do X what could Naruto bring to the table to outweigh his clumsiness and lack of strategic thinking?

Note Naruto almost all of Naruto's displayed intelligence is tactical, he is good at getting things done in a battle, but not at avoiding battles or planning beyond them.