Overrated players by the players 😬
We asked NBA players who the most overrated player in the league was.
The leading vote-getter?
Trae Young.
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— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) April 18, 2023
by PlumCantaloupe
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I’d say it’s semi-true everyone try’s to talk him up like he’s a 1A player and superstar but he’s playing on this mid team so you can’t really know if he’s really helping to win
So 4/54 players voted for Pascal, who cares? The overwhelming opinion in the NBA world is that he’s actually underrated
Eh, 4 nba guys think he’s overrated. They’re entitled to their opinion.
i love the Spice, but to be fair, Pascal IS kinda overrated.
at this point we’ve all seen enough of him to know he’s perfectly suited to be the #2 guy on a team that goes deep into the playoffs, but he’s not that #1 guy. he doesn’t have that same clutch/killer persona that #1 guys have.
what made him great in the past (think Championship year) was that he ran the court like a gazelle for a lot of transition and high speed spinning buckets.
nowadays we get ISO Pascal trying to work his way into the post or find something off the dribble, which he gets doubled and has to force a pass. he doesn’t leak out on transition anymore, or at least not as much as before.
as an aside, i’m unsurprised to see Trey at the top of this list by a wide margin. kinda shocked not to see Zion on here… but the league is protecting him like crazy.
the fact Jimmy Butler is on this list at all basically disqualifies the entire list to me. He’s been one of the biggest game performers of the decade.