http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/kelly_dwyer/02/18/worsts2/index.html
my question is, how can he be overrated when everyone hates him?
sorry if this has been posted already, i did a quick scan and didn't see anyone post it...
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Heading into this season, most right-thinking individuals didn't think much of Stephon Marbury as a franchise talent. His inability to impact a game in a positive fashion without having to dominate the ball has frustrated the life out of the four franchises (and the nine coaches) that he's played with during his nine-year career. But the fact that Marbury thinks he is the league's best point guard, his boss Isiah Thomas agrees with him and that he is resolute enough in his beliefs to announce it to the media is enough for us: Stephon Marbury is the most overrated player in the NBA.

The Knicks have been slapped around quite a bit this year by the league and by the media, but they do have talent -- mismatched, limited and overpaid talent -- but talent nevertheless. While questionable coaching and nagging injuries have put a ceiling on just what this talent could achieve in '04-05, nothing has hurt their chances more than Marbury's astonishing sense of self-worth.

Though Marbury's confidence took a hit after his Phoenix team got off to a pitiful start in '03-04, the trade to New York and the establishment of his too-close relationship with Thomas got the Starbury Train right back on the wrong track. Thomas exacerbated the situation by encouraging Marbury to take over Larry Brown's reeling USA Basketball squad during the Olympics, resulting in a 21 and 32 start to this season. Though Marbury's usage statistics have actually improved in comparison to last season, defenses know all about hounding his right hand and understand even more about how Marbury refuses to feed the right teammates at the right time. It is time to stop expecting Marbury to take over basketball games on his own and try to figure out just what sort of players this guy can win with.

If you can think of any, rest assured, Thomas probably won't trade for them. He's got to lock up Eddie Robinson first.

can't understand why star's self opinion earned this overrating by the media...seems like media find another way to say knicks suck

He will be overrated until, like Wade or Kobe, he gets to play with someone like Shaq. Then he will be underrated.

By the tone of the article, I think this author has an overrated sense of himself.

Posted by martin:

By the tone of the article, I think this author has an overrated sense of himself.

haha good point!

you too Allanfan20 good points. what you said is so true. Houston is not 32-21 just cause they have Mcgrady.

so the difference between marbury being overrated and yao being overrated is the team's recods? that's probably legitimate. marbury puts up great numbers, but the knicks stink. they play in teh weakest division of the weaker conference... it's still a tough comparison because yao has mcgrady to help him contend with the better West teams.

i think yao is overrated. his numbers are good, but not amazing, and his impact on the game isn't consistently high for someone who gets so much hype. i feel like his height makes up for the deficiencies in attitude and his game rather than taking him to a whole new level. he's still learning and playing pretty damn well, but he's got a lot to prove consistently to justify the shaq rivalry people want to play up.

Sorry for being kinda rude Matt. Had a crumby night.

Posted by Allanfan20:

Sorry for being kinda rude Matt. Had a crumby night.

Hey no problem. After living with two sisters, I can take any kinda criticism pretty well. Atleast here it's only when I deserve it .

One other thing is that both played big minutes in the Olympics.
They've had no rest and almost no time for conditioning.

Also TD and his stats have suffered a bit because of playing big minutes. AI is the only one who can keep up staistically this season. Ai's is not only a warrior, he's a machine.

In today's Times AI says he has no problem with Steph claiming he's the best PG. Except I'm really the best, AI claims. it's all fooling around, and I think people overreacted to Steph's claim cause they just plain don't like him.

Exactly, it's like people are purposely being ignorant to the fact that the comment was taken out of context. It is obvious that, without a doubt, steph only meant to say that you have to think you're the best in order to play like you're #1. What are you supposed to do, go out there against somehow who is better than you in front of 20,000 people and make sure your opponent manages to score more than you because he's SUPPOSED to be better than you? It's ridiculous and an enormous amount of steph hating has been going on. But it's true, you gotta have thick skin if you're a Knick.