defense team vs assemblage

defense team and assemblage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defense team	Yes	No	No	No
assemblage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assemblage is a hypernym of defense team; that is, assemblage is a word with a broader meaning than defense team:

Other hypernyms of defense team include accumulation, aggregation, collection.

defense team (noun)	assemblage (noun)
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively	the social act of assembling
	a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
	a group of persons together in one place
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole