Charley Rosen's - All Overrated Team

[phxspurfan]

Rondo should be over Paul on this list. Rondo was called the Best PG in the World so many times during last year's playoffs it was sickening.

[Supergirl]

Rondo should be over Paul on this list. Rondo was called the Best PG in the World so many times during last year's playoffs it was sickening.

Nah, Rondo has won a championship, and is overall better without being touted as one of the top PGs in the NBA on a regular basis, as Paul is. Paul is overrated because he is held up as the best in the NBA and has nothing to show for it. Deron Williams is as good as Paul without being nearly as hyped.

[21_Blessings]

Rondo couldn't even make the USA C team.

Also notice how the Rondo hype completely vanished after the NBA finals. The Lakers weren't even guarding him

[quentin_compson]

Chris Paul and LeBron overrated ... yeah, sure ...

And who the would rank Kidd, Vince, and Prince that high anymore anyway?

Howard, hm, I don't know. It's a shame he still hasn't developed some low post moves, and overall, he probably is overrated. As for Boozer and Jefferson, there are a lot of people for sure who are overrating these guys.

[redzero]

Nah, Rondo has won a championship,

And? He won a championship with three hall of famers on his team doing the majority of the work. Paul came second in MVP voting the year that Rondo was carried to a championship.

and is overall better without being touted as one of the top PGs in the NBA on a regular basis

Overall better than whom? And if you watched the Celtics in the playoffs, all you would hear about is how Rajon Rondo is the best player on the team and how he is so amazing.

Paul is overrated because he is held up as the best in the NBA and has nothing to show for it. Deron Williams is as good as Paul without being nearly as hyped.

1.) Deron is not as good as Paul is.
2.) Neither of them have won anything, so that's pointless to say.

[HarlemHeat37]

Laker fans are ting on Phil Jackson now?..really?..

[himat]

Wait I just looked at the list again and realize Amare Stoudemire is not on the list!

The list is a joke now.

[JamStone]

Wait I just looked at the list again and realize Amare Stoudemire is not on the list!

The list is a joke now.

All about perception. It's pretty obvious that Rosen isn't too keen about how the current general consensus rate players if he thinks guys like Kidd, Carter, and Prince are rated very highly to be "overrated." People acknowledge that Kidd is past his prime and a complementary player at this point in his career, Tayshaun hasn't been highly regarded since probably 2005 or 2006, and people on Vince Carter. None of those guys can be considered overrated at this point.

As for Amare, that's an interesting one. I think there are a lot of people who have criticized Amare for a while now for not being an elite rebounder, a sufficient defender, or for being better in the low post with his back to the basket, considering all his physical tools. He's taken a lot of heat for those critiques. And sometimes an overrated player can quickly become an underrated player and vice versa. Take for example Chauncey Billups around 2003-2005, one of the more underrated players in the league. Then he got the "Mr. Big Shot" moniker and Finals MVP and undeserving all NBA defensive honors, and people started to over-hype him. Billups went from underrated to overrated in a matter of a couple seasons. I think enough people on Amare for his lack of defense and rebounding and perceived need for Nash to spoon feed him that he's not overrated anymore. Because of that, he might even be underrated.

[HarlemHeat37]

I don't know if any of us are really qualified to talk about which players are overrated though, IMO..

Most people here are die-hard basketball fans, we spend time discussing basketball in depth, analyzing every aspect of every player's game..so we always talk about every flaw a player has, thus making it difficult for us to consider certain players to be overrated..

This obviously appeals to the casual fan and the media..so while I stand by my previous post, and my previous point does remain the same for certain players on his list(Vince, Prince for instance, where the media s on them/doesn't talk about them), it's tough for some of us to view it in the eyes of the media and casual fan..

[himat]

All about perception. It's pretty obvious that Rosen isn't too keen about how the current general consensus rate players if he thinks guys like Kidd, Carter, and Prince are rated very highly to be "overrated." People acknowledge that Kidd is past his prime and a complementary player at this point in his career, Tayshaun hasn't been highly regarded since probably 2005 or 2006, and people on Vince Carter. None of those guys can be considered overrated at this point.

As for Amare, that's an interesting one. I think there are a lot of people who have criticized Amare for a while now for not being an elite rebounder, a sufficient defender, or for being better in the low post with his back to the basket, considering all his physical tools. He's taken a lot of heat for those critiques. And sometimes an overrated player can quickly become an underrated player and vice versa. Take for example Chauncey Billups around 2003-2005, one of the more underrated players in the league. Then he got the "Mr. Big Shot" moniker and Finals MVP and undeserving all NBA defensive honors, and people started to over-hype him. Billups went from underrated to overrated in a matter of a couple seasons. I think enough people on Amare for his lack of defense and rebounding and perceived need for Nash to spoon feed him that he's not overrated anymore. Because of that, he might even be underrated.

Yep. I think Joe D once said that people called him underrated so much that he was overrated. (People used to not acknowledge how much he meant to the team and then he became known as a Jordan stopper I guess.)

And great post about Chauncey.

I think one player who might pull a Chauncey is Joakim Noah. People keep saying he's underrated.

As a team I think the Thunder have to face that issue too. Yes, they were a Gasol tip in away from taking the champs to a Game 7, but the amount of respect they are getting is way too high for a team that hasn't made it out of the first round yet. (Granted I am one of those people).