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most overrated athletes

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Originally Posted by michaeljkrell
I also don't understand A.I. He is without question one of the best scorers in the history of the NBA. No one has ever said he was a great team player or that he makes people better. They just say he is one of the best scorers ever. Granted, my NBA viewing is only 18 years or so, but there is absolutely no one else I would have taking a game winning shot, besides Jordan of course.

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I like AI, but that's just absurd. AI wasn't even the go-to guy in the clutch for half of his Sixers years or during his Nugget stint. It was Kyle Korver and 'Melo, respectively.
 

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As much as I love Kyle Korver (he went to Creighton) that is completely crazy. I watched practically every 76ers game for almost 2 seasons during Korver's second and third year and while I thought Korver should have gotten the ball much more, if you can't beat anyone off the dribble and your name isn't Ray Allen, it is pretty difficult to be the guy you go to in the clutch. I can only remember one time Korver made a game winning/tying shot and that was a double or triple overtime game against the Celtics where he may have made two of them.

Iverson was not in this prime after he left the 76ers...
 

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That's not too bad considering they were below .500 in 2 out of 3 years.


AI's 3 point, and sometimes, even midrange shooting is/was spotty at best, and that alone should eliminate him from the conversation if you include much better shooters like Kobe, Pierce, Allen, or Reggie Miller. Or look at it this way, if you do a search for "Allen Iverson clutch" on youtube, one of the top results is Horry's shot over him in the '01 Finals.
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Originally Posted by Farhan
No worries. Just trying to add a contrasting opinion.

Some more:

Roddick
Reggie Bush
Mickelson
Vince Carter
Beckham
Babe Ruth
Romo
Urlacher

Lebron is a season away from being placed on my list.


That's crap
 

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Originally Posted by embowafa
If anything, he's underrated. As a celebrity, he's overrated. As the messiah of soccer in America, he's highly overrated. But as a pure footballer...he's underrated.

People just don't understand that at the position he plays, he's just not the goal scoring player he's expected to be.

He's won just about every trophy he could possibly win (except the World Cup, which is more of a commentary on the state of English football as a whole), and he makes any team he's on better.



This.
 

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Originally Posted by Rambo
David Robinson - Good but got consistently pwned by Hakeem every year.

Agreed, and without Duncan, The Admiral would have never won a ring.
 

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It's hard for a center to carry a team to a championship. Shaq had Dwyane Wade help, or even carry the team. The only center I know that has done this is Hakeem - he was totally unlike any other center.
 

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Originally Posted by HORNS
It's hard for a center to carry a team to a championship. Shaq had Dwyane Wade help, or even carry the team. The only center I know that has done this is Hakeem - he was totally unlike any other center.


Don't tell that to Kareem. "Tell your old man drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!".
 

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Originally Posted by HORNS
It's hard for a center to carry a team to a championship. Shaq had Dwyane Wade help, or even carry the team. The only center I know that has done this is Hakeem - he was totally unlike any other center.

I always thought it was the opposite. It's hard for a guard to carry a team to a championship and the only player who did it was Jordan. Hakeem had Drexler.
 

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Hakeem had Drexler for the second championship. Abdul Jabbar had, ahem, Magic Johnson, et al.

Also, for the record, my original comment was in response to David Robinson being overrated and that it took Tim Duncan to come along for him to win a championship. This is just my opinion, of course, and Robinson's value vs perceived value can be looked at a million different ways.
 

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Originally Posted by Farhan
No worries. Just trying to add a contrasting opinion.

Some more:

Roddick
Reggie Bush
Mickelson
Vince Carter
Beckham
Babe Ruth
Romo
Urlacher

Lebron is a season away from being placed on my list.
 

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Darko Milicic and Kwame Brown.

it's very hard to fall far short of even the lowest expectations, but no one does it better than these two
 

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Originally Posted by daft
I always thought it was the opposite. It's hard for a guard to carry a team to a championship and the only player who did it was Jordan. Hakeem had Drexler.

Hakeem is also the only All Star player to win a championship without another All Star on the team. That pretty much tells you how good he was that first championship year.
 

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