Overrated Nba/pba Players

[Cap™]

Lechoke James is overrated. He is not and never will be in the league of Larry, Magic and Michael.

 

I'm not going to throw too much shade at someone who won titles. Yes, he may not have the same number of titles as these guys but he did well. Not a fan, just being level-headed. Peace

[Cap™]

Lechoke has the talent but he does not have the heart.

 

well, that doesn't overrate him, does he? He's good but he had to ask for people. No one's questioning his talent, rather, it's about how he got his titles, right? Just putting your perspectives in place sir He's a Hall of Famer even though we argue how he won his titles.

[Cap™]

He is overrated because some sports writers/commentators like Mark Jackson are saying he is the greatest of all time, which is baloney. How could someone who had to go to another team to win a championship become the greatest of all time? He is overrated.

 

well, Mark Jackson's full of baloney, that's why hahaha If we go about the GOAT having won championships, Bill Russell should be GOAT. MJ changed the face of basketball, and let's face it, LeBron's doing it as well. Why'd I say that? His built isn't exactly what you'd expect for someone playing in his position (6'9 SF who plays all four positions, can do it both offensively and defensively), has excellent court vision (great passer) and basketball IQ. Mike just played one position but he's THE best.

 

My point? is LeBron GOAT? not really. Overrated? Not at all. A great? Definitely.

[Guiness]

Great? I don't think so. The guy does not have the heart. He easily gave up on the Miami Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals and bolted to his hometown in the chase for his third ring. One of his requests was to build another Big 3 in Cleveland, which is nowhere near the caliber of the Big 3 in Miami because Wade and Bosh are franchise players, Irving and Love are, at best, the Robins in a playoff team. Bosh led his Raptors to the playoffs while Wade won a championship for the Heat with him being the best player and not Shaq. Neither Irving nor Love ever led their teams to the playoffs.

 

 

I have to disagree with you on Chris Bosh being a franchise player, i can go on to say this guy is overrated too like Dwight and Rondo. He is by no means a franchise player who couldn't even lead a team out of the 1st round. Yes, its true he was able to bring the Raptors to the playoffs. Twice, but got eliminated. At best he is like Kevin Love an All-Star but a Superstar franchise player? nope.

Edited November 22, 2015 by hahnz

[PulangX]

Over rated and over paid....

CARMELO ANTHONY

[jjbluenetime23]

Over rated and over paid....

CARMELO ANTHONY

Yes i agree carmelo is indeed overpaid bec the franchise has more than enough capital and stock to do so. But over rated i dont think so. He has the skills and experience to carry a team, which in his days back in mile hi were very evident but with his current team it will be a long shot. But they got hope in porzingis which has been a huge revelation for the zen master. Hope he matures and improves the right way. I think josh smith, kobe(dwindling career) fots the over rated over paid categories.

 

On a side note i hope jahlil goes to a good team, given his numbers and upside its a huge waste that he is playing for a team thats tanking its way to next years draft..for the nnnnnnth time

[Guiness]

But MJ still scored 63 against the Celtics. In the playoffs. He didn't have Pippen or Grant or any of the other guys on his team then. Individually i think Jordan is the most gifted player i have ever seen. In one season he was averaging 37.7 ppg i think it was in his 3rd year. In the 80's. I don't know if you can call a player overrated for averaging 38 ppg in a season in the 80's against pretty good stacked teams. Granted he didn't win because he didn't have talented players surrounding him during those years not to mention not having a coach who utilized his talents so he can get his teammates more involved instead of him shooting against 3 defenders.

 

Look at his stats in the 80's and tell me if that was overrated. if a guy averages 30 points or more per season in the 80's which was more physical than the current NBA. Just imagine how he would be today.

Edited November 26, 2015 by hahnz

[dencio]

@mason slake,

 

As in your opinion, both Lebron and MJ are over-rated, where or how would you then rate them compared to others?

[Guiness]

Well i can't really say for sure if he is the greatest of all time. But i won't say he is overrated because he backed it up. I could go on to say that he is the greatest player to play at his position which is Shooting guard. I would rank him number 1. The year you mentioned that Bird came in and comparing that team to what the Bulls had when Michael came in is kind of an unfair assessment. There were some pretty good talented players on that Celtics squad not to mention HOF players on that team when Bird came in. Guys like Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Pistol Pete among others. and you want to compare the players the Celtics had that year to the year the Bulls had MJ? Try to compare guys like Dave Corzine to the players Bird had with the Celtics. not much of a contest huh? Dave Corzine is the only player i recognize on the team. I don't even know half the players on the roster. And yeah, no Hall of Fame players, not like the ones Bird has on the squad. MJ may not have led the Bulls to the eastern conference finals like Bird did with a some Hall of Fame players. But he did lead some scrubs from the Bulls to a playoff spot. After so many losing seasons.

 

As for Magic, when he came to the Lakers, didn't they also have Hall of Fame players on the team already? Kareem, Jamaal Wilkes, Bob McAdoo. Not to mention a steal in the draft when they got James Worthy from a draft pick of the Cavs who had the worst record that year. Another Hall of Famer.

 

These are some of the reasons why the Lakers and Celtics were good, because they were stacked with Superstar players. They had pretty good management.

 

You can't compare these teams to what MJ was working with back then thats an unfair assessment. There's only so much you can do with what you have. If i were to put Bird or Magic on those Bulls teams. I doubt they would even make playoffs with a rag tag squad of scrubs

 

The Bulls didn't start getting good until they made some draft picks for some talented players like Grant, Pippen, and made some quality trades for guys like Cartwright. But one thing was constant. Before they made these draft picks and trades. The previous years that MJ had been there they did not miss the playoffs. That's telling you something about a player. They were just starting to put some pieces together so they could contend with the top teams.

 

Bird and Magic were actually complimentary towards MJ and his game. If he was overrated his fellow peers wouldn't say anything good about him. MJ knew that coming in the league. He was looking up at Bird and Magic. he admitted that during that time he wanted to be where Magic and Bird was. At the top. He worked tirelessly on his game. If anything, i think it was because of Bird and Magic that MJ became the player he came to be. Those 2 guys set the bar for him and he exceeded them.

 

 

Individually i don't think Magic and Bird could take him one on one.

 

One other thing i think you overlooked is his defense. He was named Defensive player of the year in 1987.

 

If you compare those Celtic and Laker teams. I can count so many players on those teams who are in the Hall of Fame. Who did the Bulls have who were in the Hall of Fame. Only 3. Even on the first 3 peat. There were only 2 Hall of Fame players on those Bulls team in the early 90's

Edited November 26, 2015 by hahnz

[Guiness]

Russel would be the GOAT.

 

Not sure if i would put Russell as the greatest of all time? why? because he won 11 championships during an era where you had what 8? 9 teams? I would put Bill Russell as the greatest winner but i wouldn't put him in a category of greatest of all time. If we were to measure greatness based on rings, Then MJ would beat Bird and Magic then because Bird only has 3 and Magic only has 5. So i wouldn't put Russell in that category of all time greatest.

 

Statistically, I would rather take Kareem or Hakeem over Bill Russell. They would beat Russell im sure

[Guiness]

So you concede that MJ is not overrated in the general sense only that you think being labeled as the greatest player of all time is he being overrated.

I can agree with you in thst sense because even I can't really say for certain who is the greatest player. But at least now I am clear as to what you mean by being overrated because MJ is not overrated as a player. His stats show that he can play and deserves to be in the conversation of being one of the greatest players to play the game. I just wanted to clear that up. At least you did mention that he is one of the greatest players.

 

You make great points about Bird and Magic about them being great players and they were able to make their team better. But you can't deny the fact that they had a better cast of players, veterans who were Hall of Fame players. What i mean by unfair is don't compare the Bulls teams to what the Celtics and Lakers had. Take out Bird, Magic and MJ away from their respective teams and have the Celtics and Lakers play the Bulls. The Celtics and Lakers would easily blow out the Bulls. Because of the talent level.

 

You can say that the Hall of Fame players like Cowens or the Pistol were old, even Tiny was getting up there in age. But i would take these guys over the scrubs in the bulls roster. Old or not, the talent level is there. Are you seriously saying that you would take Orlando Woolridge over the Pistol? No way would i do that. I'm not diminishing what Bird did and I respect the player a whole lot. He is actually in my top 5. But for you to say that he can take that Bulls roster and turn them into contenders is a bit of an overstatement. I don't think any superstar player like Bird or Magic can make a team of scrubs like that on the Bulls a contender. Even if they were in Bird or Magic's level of talent.

 

Talent wise, you have to admit the Celtics and Lakers had better stacked teams. and poor MJ had to do what he had do to keep those scrubs competitive. That's why he was individualistic as you say. How can you work with sub par talent like that. Name one player other than Orlando Woolridge in that Bulls squad that you think is comparable to Cowens, Tiny, Wilkes, Kareem McAdoo, Worthy etc.. No one. You know why? Because those Bulls teams were a bunch of scrubs.

 

That's the extent of talent MJ was working with in comparison to what Bird and Magic had. That's why i said it was an unfair assessment comparing those teams to each other. If you put MJ in those Laker and Celtics teams. He would have also taken them to the championship.

 

If Bird or even Magic instead were drafted by the Bulls. I think Bird would be like, "what am I working with here, get me some more help"

[Guiness]

Let's put it this way. Yes, there were 8 or 9 teams in the 60s but didn't you also think that those 108 players were the best 108 players in the planet at the time. If there were 8 or 9 teams today, that means the NBA would only have the 108 (12 players per team on 9 teams) best players on earth which, in turn, would mean that each team would be loaded with All-Stars (relative to today's all stars) or borderline all-stars. There would not be any scrubs in the 9 teams. I would not belittle the 60s teams because it was more difficult winning that time due to the concentration of talent rather than today where the NBA is watered down.

 

Ok let me ask you a question. If you think that those 108 players of the 60's were all-stars. How come only a handful of them were in the NBA top 50? or not all of them were inducted in the Hall of Fame? I'm not belittling what those players did back then. I didn't even see them play because i wasn't even born yet. But I do recognize and appreciate what some of them did. Guys like Oscar, Kareem, Wilt, Russell.

 

But i don't think all the players of the 60's were all star or even worth mentioning in the same breath with the top 50 players of each era. Let's take one player from the 60's era and compare him to let's say an 80's all star player. Let's take Tom "Satch" Sanders and compare him to Charles Barkley. Based on your statement, that all the 60's players are all All-Stars. Are you telling me that Satch Sanders is a better basketball player than Charles Barkley?

 

Answer me this question regarding Bill Russell, let's take out the rings and just compare player to player and tell me who you think is more talented.

Would you take Bill Russell over Kareem or Hakeem for that matter. I'm not dissing Bill Russell here, i think he is one of the greatest winners of all time but talent wise I'm not going to take him over the likes of Kareem and Hakeem.

Edited November 26, 2015 by hahnz

[jtaq]

Kobe Bryant

[Guiness]

I did some sleuthing and the Bulls' record the year before Jordan came in was 27-55, not far from the Cs' 29-53 in 1978-1979 which was the year before Legend came in. I don't have that much knowledge of the Bulls since I am not a fan of theirs. In Jordan's rookie year, the Bulls were 38-44, an 11-game improvement from the year before. The Cs had a 32-game improvement in Larry's rookie year. Their records in the year before their respective superstars joined their teams were only 2 wins apart. The Cs sucked because Hondo and Pistol were washed-up. Cowens and Archibald could still play but not at a high level anymore, hence, the dismal record. Generally speaking, that 1978-1979 Celtic team were a bunch of has-beens.

 

My point is Bird made that Celtic team a lot better because his teammates played better with him. Larry could not have possibly won those games all by himself. MJ did not make his teammates play better notwithstanding his otherworldly talent.

 

Exactly my point you see the difference between the Bulls' record versus the Celtics when Bird and MJ weren't around yet? The Bulls could not even generate 30 wins. your Celtics got at least to 29. Even if the difference was 2 wins. You could tell how terrible the Bulls were, even worst than the Celtics. Besides that, I looked at the roster of the Celtics during that year before Bird came in. Aside from the vets like Pistol and Havlicek. Bird had some good talent on that team, Cornbread was there, Archibald was still averaging at least 14 pts per game. McAdoo was averaging at least 21 pts per game. While the Bulls had Woolridge the only player who was averaging double figures.

 

Reading the stats of both teams, the Celtics had a more talented team. They just needed a superstar player to take them to the next level which they got in Bird. You were right in saying that Bird could not have won those games by himself. The thing about Bird is, he plays team basketball. I will admit that MJ did not have the same mindset in involving his teammates because he did not trust them. and i think he was right. If I were MJ i would rather take the game over by myself than play with a bunch of scrubs on the team. Bird had that luxury of playing with great teammates something that was missing from MJ.

 

Although i would fault MJ for not giving his teammates a chance or trusting them but i can't blame him because he really was playing with scrubs. But he did learn to trust his teammates on towards the rest of his career right? Which resulted in 6 championships. Phil got him to buy into an offense of sharing the basketball and hitting a man with an open shot. I know this because i read Phil's book which outlined his career coaching the bulls.

 

The one thing i will agree with you is that Bird and Magic were players who had the mentality of sharing the basketball and involving teammates which MJ did not have in the beginning of his career. Individually he was a truly gifted player, able to score at will and play great Defense. But he was lacking in the trust department involving his teammates. But then again, he was playing with sub par players. Not like Bird coming into a team that was built by Red managing some talent and putting some deals together to get great players like Tiny, or McAdoo. I agree with you that these players were further down their careers but they were far from has beens. Maybe Pistol and Havlicek were. But Tiny and McAdoo were still efficient and mix it up with a talented guy by the name of Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell who came in almost the same year as Bird. By the way, Maxwell was a Finals MVP at one point in his career.

[jjbluenetime23]

Kobe Bryant

Yup couldnt agree more. His career in the past 5 years has been a downward spiral. Such a sad story for a future hall of famer. But it was bound to happen to the greats, The big o, bill russell, kareem, magic, bird, shaq, iverson, mj all had at one point dwindling careers. But mad props to this guy for what he contributed to the game and his era. But father time has reminded him several time already to look beyond basketball. Never was i a fan of his but still my utmost respect for what he did.