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Most Underrated Player EVER!

Postby DipSetVC on Mon Dec 29, 2003 10:16 am

Today while I was playing Madden, I came to the sudden realization about how underrated Paul Pierce is. I've never heard his name being mentioned in the elite (Kobe, KG, Duncan, AI, etc.), yet he never seems to get enough credit for how valuable he is to his team. In my opinion, PP is better than T-Mac, but the media treats T-Mac like a god even after the "stellar" 8-23 start to Orlando's season. I just wanted to get your opinions on this guys...thanks...
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Postby 1CenT on Mon Dec 29, 2003 10:46 am

he is not the most underrated ever
most of the ppl say he is the top 10 players in the league right now.. i've heard of that many times from Sir Charles.. The last 3 seasons on nba.com hes been an MVP candidate.. even tho he'll never win it unless his team is first in his conference and well above .500...

He makes the all-star team by coaches selection the last few years and hes been all-nba 3rd team a few times but i think he deserves better this year
hes a much better defender than Tmac and hes leading his team better too..

Most underrated ever? Benard King and Dominique Wilkens for not making the greatest 50? at least they are underrated for those who chose the greatest 50.. right now..
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Postby Old School Fool on Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:39 am

Bernard King is Mentioned in Kurtis Blows' Song "Basketball" :?
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Postby Andrew on Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:43 am

I think PP is slightly underrated, kind of like Nique was back in the day. If we're looking back through NBA history though, I too would pick Bernard King and Dominique Wilkins as being great players who were vastly underrated.
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Postby Nel on Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:55 pm

Ron Artest. I agree pierce is a bit underrated simply because he doesn't have the media exposure. But talent wise he's in the top ten of the league and maybe ahead of mcgrady because he's a better clutch player and defender. :wink:
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Postby Matthew on Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:22 pm

Alot of tmac haters out here. How is Paul Pierce "underated" and Tmac is "overated" simply on team success?
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Postby LeBron James on Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:42 am

NBA_Fan_23 wrote:Alot of tmac haters out here. How is Paul Pierce "underated" and Tmac is "overated" simply on team success?

T-mac is stupid ballhog,i Hate him so much.
He is like a cow or something.
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Postby GloveGuy on Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:09 am

LeBron James wrote:
NBA_Fan_23 wrote:Alot of tmac haters out here. How is Paul Pierce "underated" and Tmac is "overated" simply on team success?

T-mac is stupid ballhog,i Hate him so much.
He is like a cow or something.


Yeah cows and ballhogs. I can definitely see the similarity...

Who do you expect T-Mac to pass it to? He passes it to Drew Gooden who takes an outside shot and misses most of the time. He passes it to Grant Hill -- oh wait Grant's been on the bench for more than half of his years in Orlando...Hate is such a strong word. It's really not worth lecturing you over this, but I can't imagine how you could "hate" someone because of their playing style.
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Postby Matthew on Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:09 am

Lol a cow? Don't get Tmac confused with Oliver miller :crazy:
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Postby Bill Russell on Tue Dec 30, 2003 12:26 pm

You know who is underrated? Wilt Pimperlain... How can people underrate a guy who once banged like 2000 women, in his playing days? Add like 350 more once he retired... Talk about underrativism... This is underrated guys...
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