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2592175, Is there a more overrated player in the NBA than Marc Gasol?
Posted by icecold21, Thu Jan-26-17 02:02 PM
DPOY
1st team All NBA
2nd team All NBA
2nd team Defensive All NBA
2x All Star
Never averaged 20 or more a game
Never averaged 10 or more rebs
Never averaged 2 or more blocks
Yet everyone wants to act like he's been the best center in the NBA at one time or another like Boogie hasn't been for the last few years. Dude is not even top 5.
If he gets in the ASG today I'll be salty.
IMO he's been milking that last name for all its worth on some Eli shit, among other reasons.
Can't think of anyone more overrated tho.
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2592179, All star nods are meaningless & he's the last traditional center
Posted by guru0509, Thu Jan-26-17 02:07 PM
Ppl are nostalgic
he's very good. idk who is overrating him tho
>DPOY
>1st team All NBA
>2nd team All NBA
>2nd team Defensive All NBA
>2x All Star
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>Never averaged 20 or more a game
>Never averaged 10 or more rebs
>Never averaged 2 or more blocks
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>Yet everyone wants to act like he's been the best center in
>the NBA at one time or another like Boogie hasn't been for the
>last few years. Dude is not even top 5.
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>If he gets in the ASG today I'll be salty.
>
>IMO he's been milking that last name for all its worth on some
>Eli shit, among other reasons.
>
>Can't think of anyone more overrated tho.
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2592180, This is going to end badly...
Posted by gmltheone, Thu Jan-26-17 02:07 PM
He's really good. On BOTH sides of the ball.
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Same as it ever was!
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2592181, RE: This is going to end badly...
Posted by ShawndmeSlanted, Thu Jan-26-17 02:08 PM
yea not as good as Boogie, sure but the most underrated player?
wish we could page Zach Lowe since that dude is the opposite of this guy when it comes to Marc
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2592186, Going to see how all the numbers play out this season..
Posted by gmltheone, Thu Jan-26-17 02:12 PM
But he's been better than boogie defensively.
More to defense than block shots. Or excuse me "rim protection".
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Same as it ever was!
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2592184, I'm not saying he sucks, but he damn sure ain't as good as he's hyped to be.
Posted by icecold21, Thu Jan-26-17 02:11 PM
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2592189, lol i thought for sure you meant underrated at first.
Posted by Cenario, Thu Jan-26-17 02:14 PM
He's very good and i hardly ever here him mentioned as a top 20-25 player. Who the hell is overrating marc gasol?
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2592193, Talking heads routinely say he's the best (or one of) 5s
Posted by icecold21, Thu Jan-26-17 02:21 PM
and he'll probably make another ASG.
Give one to Conley at least, Marc ain't even the best player on his own team.
Way too much hype for a career 15 and 8 guy
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2592203, you talking about Conley or Gasol?
Posted by Cenario, Thu Jan-26-17 02:53 PM
>Way too much hype for a career 15 and 8 guy
Must be Gasol cause Conley is a 14 and 6 career guy.
In any event, who is calling Gasol the best center in the league now?
As far as being one of the best, i'm sure alot of coaches would want him in the middle going into the playoffs over Cousins, Whiteside or some of the other more talented C's in the league.
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2592285, :(
Posted by cgonz00cc, Thu Jan-26-17 09:47 PM
>>Way too much hype for a career 15 and 8 guy
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>Must be Gasol cause Conley is a 14 and 6 career guy.
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2592195, LULZ
Posted by dula dibiasi, Thu Jan-26-17 02:32 PM
bwahahahahahahahahaha.
thanks for the laugh, breh. seriously.
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2592198, 2x All-Star and Top Five center isn't much hype.
Posted by SoulHonky, Thu Jan-26-17 02:39 PM
I mean, David Lee and Roy Hibbert are two time All-Stars. And Noah probably would have won the DPOY that Gasol won had he not gotten hurt.
And over the past five years or so, the center position has been weak. I mean, they changed the All-Star voting partly because weak options like Jamaal Magloire were making it. Only now with Towns, Drummond, Gobert emerging is there competition. In the past, spots 6 - 10 were guys like Big Al Jefferson, Greg Monroe, Larry Sanders.
I think he's rated correctly. He's a key part of the Grizzlies' success but he's not a #1 star, is possibly a #2 guy on a playoff team, and #3 on a true title contender.
If he makes the All-Star game as a reserve, it's probably a nod from coaches who like his game, have known him longer, and want to recognize him instead of the young guys like Gobert. Or they might not like Cousins.
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2592204, lol right.
Posted by Cenario, Thu Jan-26-17 02:56 PM
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2592275, He's basically a rich-man's Vlade without all the flopping:
Posted by FILF, Thu Jan-26-17 08:26 PM
http://bkref.com/tiny/EoAUY
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