Thats not a superstar pedigree by any means. That’s a lot worse than guys like Latrell Sprewell (4 time All Star, 1X 1st Team and 1X 2nd Team All NBA), Mitch Richmond (6X All Star, 3X 2nd Team All NBA and 2X 3rd Team All NBA), Joe Dumars (2X champion, FMVP, 6X All Star, 1X 2nd Team All NBA, 2X 3rd Team All NBA, 4X 1st Team All Defense, 1X 2nd Team All Defense) and other contemporaries. I can name scores of guys who had better careers. People remember a few big shots Miller hit in his career but forget all of the playoff flops he had. Dude was a one dimensional catch and shoot player. No post game, couldn’t put the ball on the floor, didn’t pass or rebound for sh-t and needed his teammates to set a million baseline screens just so he could get off contested 20 footers. He was a good, entertaining player but I’m baffled as to why he gets more love (top 75) than guys like Richmond, Dumars and many others who were clearly better players. I know I’ll get flamed for this post but I’ll die on this hill. Dude was overrated.Most Overrated Non-Superstar / Non-MVP Level Player of All Time
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Reggie Miller. People will say he’s a superstar, HOF and Top 75 player ever but in reality he never won anything, only made the Finals one time and only after Jordan retired, only made 5 All Star teams and 3 All NBA Third teams. That’s it. Never made 1st or 2nd Team All NBA in a career that spanned 18 years. That means he was never considered a top 10 player for any season in his entire career but is somehow considered a top 75 player ever? Thats not a superstar pedigree by any means. That’s a lot worse than guys like Latrell Sprewell (4 time All Star, 1X 1st Team and 1X 2nd Team All NBA), Mitch Richmond (6X All Star, 3X 2nd Team All NBA and 2X 3rd Team All NBA), Joe Dumars (2X champion, FMVP, 6X All Star, 1X 2nd Team All NBA, 2X 3rd Team All NBA, 4X 1st Team All Defense, 1X 2nd Team All Defense) and other contemporaries. I can name scores of guys who had better careers. People remember a few big shots Miller hit in his career but forget all of the playoff flops he had. Dude was a one dimensional catch and shoot player. No post game, couldn’t put the ball on the floor, didn’t pass or rebound for sh-t and needed his teammates to set a million baseline screens just so he could get off contested 20 footers. He was a good, entertaining player but I’m baffled as to why he gets more love (top 75) than guys like Richmond, Dumars and many others who were clearly better players. I know I’ll get flamed for this post but I’ll die on this hill. Dude was overrated.
Thats not a superstar pedigree by any means. That’s a lot worse than guys like Latrell Sprewell (4 time All Star, 1X 1st Team and 1X 2nd Team All NBA), Mitch Richmond (6X All Star, 3X 2nd Team All NBA and 2X 3rd Team All NBA), Joe Dumars (2X champion, FMVP, 6X All Star, 1X 2nd Team All NBA, 2X 3rd Team All NBA, 4X 1st Team All Defense, 1X 2nd Team All Defense) and other contemporaries. I can name scores of guys who had better careers. People remember a few big shots Miller hit in his career but forget all of the playoff flops he had. Dude was a one dimensional catch and shoot player. No post game, couldn’t put the ball on the floor, didn’t pass or rebound for sh-t and needed his teammates to set a million baseline screens just so he could get off contested 20 footers. He was a good, entertaining player but I’m baffled as to why he gets more love (top 75) than guys like Richmond, Dumars and many others who were clearly better players. I know I’ll get flamed for this post but I’ll die on this hill. Dude was overrated.Re: Most Overrated Non-Superstar / Non-MVP Level Player of All Time
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Currently, the GSW FO seems to wildly overrate Jonathan Kuminga. He can develop into a good power forward along the lines of Aaron Gordon or Julius Randle, but his basketball IQ is still lacking. In the game Steph sat out last season bc of injury, the entire GSW lineup fell apart.
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I'll mention two Championship winning small guards, Earl Monroe and Tony Parker.
Earl Monroe was an All-Star 4 times. He only finished on an All-NBA team once (1969 - 1st team), which is also the only year he received any All-NBA votes period. He never received real MVP consideration, finishing in the Top 10 of the MVP vote zero times (Top 15 only once). During his one Championship winning season with the Knicks in '73, he was at best the 4th best player on the team (Frazier/Reed/DeBusschere). Yet Monroe gets a ton of love and was named on plenty of Top 75 players lists that I saw published. He has one of the sweetest nicknames ever and was a valuable scorer for a title-winning Knicks team, but he's overrated.
Tony Parker was a very good player with a Top 100 argument. One of the best little guys ever at scoring in the paint. But in terms of public perception, I think he gets too much credit and Manu gets too little credit for the Spurs' dynasty. From what we've seen of the On/Off data and what we visually know about their relative defensive capabilities, Manu seems to be dinged because of the 6th man role. Even Duncan seems to get docked in favor of extra Parker love after his PPG/MPG started dropping around '07, despite the fact that he was still anchoring that great defense.
Earl Monroe was an All-Star 4 times. He only finished on an All-NBA team once (1969 - 1st team), which is also the only year he received any All-NBA votes period. He never received real MVP consideration, finishing in the Top 10 of the MVP vote zero times (Top 15 only once). During his one Championship winning season with the Knicks in '73, he was at best the 4th best player on the team (Frazier/Reed/DeBusschere). Yet Monroe gets a ton of love and was named on plenty of Top 75 players lists that I saw published. He has one of the sweetest nicknames ever and was a valuable scorer for a title-winning Knicks team, but he's overrated.
Tony Parker was a very good player with a Top 100 argument. One of the best little guys ever at scoring in the paint. But in terms of public perception, I think he gets too much credit and Manu gets too little credit for the Spurs' dynasty. From what we've seen of the On/Off data and what we visually know about their relative defensive capabilities, Manu seems to be dinged because of the 6th man role. Even Duncan seems to get docked in favor of extra Parker love after his PPG/MPG started dropping around '07, despite the fact that he was still anchoring that great defense.