The Blues manager has no injury concerns ahead of the visit of Murat Yakin's Swiss side to Stamford Bridge.
And Mourinho says four players under the age of 22 will start for his side against a team they beat en route to winning the Europa League last season.
Chelsea have made their worst start to a Premier League season for a decade.
But Mourinho, who reached two Champions League semi-finals in his first stint at Stamford Bridge, has no concerns ahead of Wednesday's game.
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He said: "It's the Champions League - no matches, no points."
Just before he left Chelsea in 2007, Mourinho complained about the quality of players available to him, likening them to eggs.
But he is happy with the squad he has to select from for the game against Basel.
He said: "[They are] beautiful young eggs. Eggs that need a mum, in this case a dad, to take care of them, to keep them warm during the winter, to bring the blanket and to work and improve them.
"One day they will arrive in the moment where the weather changes, the sun rises, you break the eggs and the eggs are ready to go to the top level.
"If you think as we think in the club, in the evolution of the players and the team, it's very important for them to play on the big stage, and the big stage is the Champions League."
Chelsea's Europa League success last season came a year after they won the Champions League.
Mourinho said: "Chelsea had a dream and the dream came true by winning the Champions League two years ago.
"It's normal if you win it once, you dream to win it twice. That happened to me and when I did it for the second time, I dreamed of winning it for the third time.
"I want to start the group phase by winning because last season Chelsea went outside its natural habitat of the Champions League and went out into a competition which isn't a Chelsea competition and we don't want to do that again."
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