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Eric Maynor hit a game-winner in the 2007 NCAA Tourney that led VCU over JJ Re 's Duke. To me, this by itself explicables Maynor's hype.
Eric Maynor - He sucks and has always sucked. The highlights of his career have been just not Westbricking and instead passing it to Durant. Yet somehow part of the justification of trading away Harden was that Maynor would beback
Nick Young - His shot selection makes JR Smith seem like John Stockton. Doesn't pass. Doesn't rebound. Doesn't play defense. Doesn't do anything other than chuck ... and he's not even that good of a shooter.
Norris Cole - He's just really got damn bad at basketball. He was bad last year as a rookie and is now even worse. Yet, you catch a Heat game and the talk is like he's some up and coming stud.
Samuel Dalembert - He's from a great island but there's a reason no one wants him despite his decent to good numbers: he has no instincts. Just basketball dumb.
CJ Watson - Somehow he was considered a quality backup for Derrick Rose. Truth is he was damn bad both years in Chicago. They let him walk and now he's bad in Brooklyn.
Who u got?
Last edited by timvp; 12-06-2012 at 03:42 AM.
Eric Maynor hit a game-winner in the 2007 NCAA Tourney that led VCU over JJ Re 's Duke. To me, this by itself explicables Maynor's hype.
Completely agree with Maynor and Cole, especially Cole..
I'd have to think about other current players, but Courtney Lee was hyped all off-season and he was hyped when Houston acquired him..he had a decent rookie season and has progressively become tier..
For this past decade, I'll list players that were on virtually every forum wishlist during every off-season, despite the lack of production from these players..
- Hakim Warrick
- Chris Wilcox
- Travis Outlaw
- Mickael Pietrus
- Sean Williams
- Ike Diogu
Kawai Leonard.
George Hill
cue asshurt spurfan whining about bonner.
bonner up, es.
In 2K13 Nick Young virtually never misses a shot, his offense is like 90+. So odd considering he doesn't even do this
ok, srsly tho:
Iman Shumpert - No offensive game to speak of, has a nose that looks like his haircut and only got props for D because, Chandler aside, the Nw Y
Dwight Howard - He's a s of his former self. I can't wait until he turns the Rockets into Magic 2.0
Brandon Jennings - I'll wait until it's not a contract year to change my mind
Andrew Bogut - I'm sick of hearing "when Bogut gets back". Bogut is from Geelong. Any Australians here know what this means. He's like a fat housing commission resident cashing that pension cheque.
Damien Lillard -tlong.
Manu Ginobili
Tiago Splitter
Perkins - Great floor leader
Kendrick Perkins - I still do not understand how Sam Presti extended him and paid him 8 million a year even before he suited up for OKC, preventing them from retaining Harden.
The entire Sacramento Kings team - Wizards west, tbh. How can this be a talented squad when they all need the ball to play? Wish Chuck Hayes got out of there tbh, he'd be great on a contender.
Nicolas Batum - for every great game he gets he gets a 1-15, 1-10 from 3 game, tbh
Eric Maynor? He's not been sharp this year, I'll grant you that. Something seems amiss since recovering from his ACL injury. Prior to that though, he was fantastic or OKC. I'm not sure how hyped the guy was. I never thought of him as a guy people just raved about, but he was a solid player and did what OKC needed him to do and did it extremely well. To say that he "sucks and has always sucked" is very puzzling to me. Sucks in the sense that he's not Chris Paul or D-Rose? I guess so. He played his role very well for OKC though. On an irrelevent side note - Eric Maynor is the best half court buzzer beater shooter in the NBA. The amount of half court makes or near makes from this guy is just creepy.
Agree with the list tim. I would add:
Shannon Brown - Kobe wannabe. Teams pay him to imitate Kobe and jump. He can't do anything else. Zero BBIQ and putrid shot selection.
Anthony Randolph - typical case where teams keep paying/hoping for potential.
Landry Fields - got massive hype from NY fans because he was a 2nd round pick. He can't shoot, he is average/bellow average in everything else but still got 6m/year contract from the Raps.
Funny that for every inexplicably hyped role player there is a really underrated/undervalued role player. Carl Landry (4m), Jeremy Pargo (1m), Tony Allen(3.3m), Mike Dunleavy (3.7m), Ronnie Brewer (min). All massive steals for their price tags.
Kobe Bryant...
Who's "Kawai Leonard"?Kawai Leonard.
Definitely Kobe, it's like shaqs been erased from laker history when they talk about the first 3 ships.
rashard lewis, dude & allen remade the old seattle combo in miami but only half of it is functioning well. lewis can't ing rebound and can't hit , just watch his current game you'd never imagine such a player could sign a contract worth 100+ million tbh
Im glad someone said shumpert.
Jordan Crawford
Definitely the "future face of the spurs" according to Pop, future DPOY, all star starter etc. Kiwi Leo.
Carl Landry and Mike Dunleavy are putting together Sixth Man of the Year worthy seasons. Both outperforming the guy who's making more than 10 mill off a certain bench, tbh
Agreed with Maynor being overhyped. He gets his name dropped a ton despite being below average. I think his hype mainly (if not solely) stems from being out last year. I'm guessing the media hyped him up to make people think the Thunder had even more potential than they really did by lauding Maynor like he was the best backup PG in the NBA, and the Thunder were just that amazing for not dropping off when he got hurt.
I think Dalembert is okay though. His numbers look better than he really is, but you usually don't hear much about how amazing he is besides by his own team's announcers liking him. I wouldn't mind having him on the Spurs tbh. If he didn't carry the same pricetag anyway.
My picks, I'm going with Tyrus Thomas. He can occaisionally make a nice defensive play and has some pretty nice athleticism no doubt, but his head's barely in the game half the time and he's a chucker on offense.
Blair, has been spurs starting Center(or PF) in the last 2 seasons and can't play any defense or offense, low BBIQ, makes TD play against two 7' alone.
Maynor is solid. There's nothing spectacular about him, but he takes care of the ball and makes good decisions. Sets up guys well, shoots the ball reasonably well. Some in OKC would like to see Jackson get some time at backup PG. In preseason it was said that Jackson could potentially take the backup PG spot from Maynor. Jackson is Westbrook-like athletically and would have a lot more potential to create problems for defenses than Maynor does.
I haven't seen much of Jackson, is he that good?
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