Is Iguodala overrated?
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Is Iguodala overrated?
You might have seen the SI Players NBA Poll in the most recent edition of Sports Illustrated.
The magazine asked 173 NBA players who was the most overrated player in the league.
Tracy McGrady was the leader with 9 perecent of the vote, followed by Danny Granger with 4 percent.
After that, six players each received 3 percent of the vote, including the Sixers' Andre Iguodala.
The others: LaMarcus Aldridge, David West, Gilbert Arenas and Cleveland teammates LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal.
SI does not say when the survey was taken, although you would assume it was recently. It would be interesting to see if NBA players equate overrated and underrated with salary vs. performance or hype vs. performance. You might recall Slam magazine named Iguodala the 26th best player in the league in the offseason, based on expected production.
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Clankadala is not overrated...anyone who follows the Sixers knows that he can't shoot, can't create his own shot and is a terrible ball handler...he's not overrated; just over paid.— hope55- If you want an example of how dumb philly fans are, read about 98% of these comments. And yes, wil sim, if you can't see past scoring than you are nothing more than a casual fan, like most of the nitwits who post on here.— jefuuetsukusura
- asking philly fans to properly evaluate a player is like asking a moron to repair a space ship. Even if they were presented with proper information, they wouldn't know what to do with it.— jefuuetsukusura
- yo twizzler, go check out all the nba rosters. he'd be the 5th option on 3-4 teams, the 4th on 8-10, the 3rd on all the rest. there is not one team in the whole league that he'd be the 2nd option on, not one!— imfriel
- Is Brickadala overrated? Umm...is the Pope Catholic?— dasher
- He still cant dribble. He padded his stats last night to hog his way into getting pts at a pt where down 20. he is so so so soso overated. now back to olympic hockey cant wait till overatadala gets on usa sike.— Lotsh
- twizzler, his 2 pt jumpshot pct is .320, 5th worse in the nba. his 3pt pct is .301, 4th worse in the nba. oh yea baby, he can shoot the rock!!! he's thrown up more airballs than any other basketball player(jr high, high school, college, nba) than i've ever seen anybody throw up in my 36 years of existance.— imfriel
- exactly how is Iguidala overrated since the 76ers found NO TEAM to give us a good offer for him !!!— zen
- Who says SI are the experts? Iggy is overrated? Case in point- He's got the stats, but he is not a money player.Any of the guys that were mentioned are better than Iggy.Besides Lamarcus Aldrigde is a very good offensive player.
- iggy is a lousy offensiv player. good defender and roleplayer but that´s it in my opinion.— Sesam
overrated? no. its the EFFORT AND SHOT SELECTION WITH THE OCCAISIONAL TURNOVER.— combocancer1975- Yeah, he stinks. That's why he's invited to the Olympic tryouts and all. This town is full of idiotic fans that listen to what 610 says instead of actually learning sports.— brian2706
- I'm surprised the number wasn't somewhere around 30%.— mfecani
- iguodala is a good number 2 option on a team that needs him to be a no. 1 and take 20 shots a game...any way you slice this hes set up for failure.— ShaneOO
Bob Cooney has been at the Daily News for more than 20 years, working in the sports department for the past 15. This is his third season on the Sixers beat. He has covered just about everything, but mostly college basketball, where he was the La Salle beat writer for six seasons. E-mail Bob at cooneyb@phillynews.com and follow him on Twitter.
