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NBA Finals MVP
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Originally Posted by Kovach
What about Terry Cummings? Only 2 time all-star, about 22ppg with less than 19fga. Had an extremely accurate fadeaway jumper that nobody could block.
Very good player. A rich man's Carlos Boozer.
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NBA Finals MVP
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Originally Posted by Rasheed1
Adrian Dantley
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NBA All-star
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
plenty of those today as well
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BASKETBALL Fan
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Fat Lever. Super underrated considering a lot of basketball fans these days have never even heard of him. Triple double machine. 6th most career triple doubles in NBA history.
Lever 31pts/16rebs/12asts/6stlsvs VS Jordan's Bulls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgDPFlbd3no
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...leverfa01.html
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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Originally Posted by elementally morale
Chris Mullin and Dale Ellis would have a field day. And Rik Smits, as limited as he was would be a max player.
Smits in my opinion would of gotten the pacers to the finals , if he was used correctly...
seldom they used his low post prowls as effeciently as other centers.
Talk about under appreciated - his team did.
They were more than happy to sub him out with the Davis's.
However Smits would have a tough time of it in this era , because he lugged down the floor.. not great in our bball world now.
That being said , I retract my Bob Lanier prop's , cause he is in the same catagory -- - slow.
I do like the Terry Cummings props , Terry was a great defender as well as boards man.
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Big Booty Hoes!!
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
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Go NY GO NY GO
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Kiki Vandeweghe and Tom Chambers.
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Local High School Star
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Originally Posted by Xiao Yao You
He was perennial all-star starter and a HOFer. Don't see how he was ever underrated. What he did well was run the floor. He was lucky enough to play with Magic during the run and gun 80's. I never thought he was a whole lot better than Byron Scott personally and Scott was never an all-star nor a HOFer.
Its the fans who underrate him, especially today's younger fans. He was well respected by his peers and coaches. You see, he played on a team with 3 other guys who were hovering around 20 ppg. Had he played for a lesser team I believe his numbers would have been much higher. I watched the whole era, and people now put him below some of the other small forwards in the league like Wilkins, English, Dantly, king, etc. ,but the thing is none of those guys could stop Worthy, he played way bigger than any small forward in the league. Hell, there was no power forward in the league that could guard Worthy. When the Celtics put McHale on him, what happened? He got torched. Ask rodman, who's widely considered the best small forward defender of all time, who gave him fits, he'll say: James Worthy. And yes, he did run the floor well, but he also had the best post up game of any small forward I've seen. He was a beast in my opinion.
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ISH's Negro Historian
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Players who'd thrive in todays game would be:
Sidney Moncrief
Alex English
Tom Chambers
BERNARD KING would be unarguable.
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Bitch Hands
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
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Very good NBA starter
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Oh, forgot about George Gervin.
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NBA rookie of the year
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Brad Lohaus. 7 footer with range. They would love him in today's NBA.
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Local High School Star
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Marques Johnson
Walter Davis
Terry Cummings
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Smile, you're on ISH
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
I was going to say a few players. But really, none of them were underrated. Just forgotten today, due to new generations.
Fat is a good one, and Sleepy Floyd might be the best of the all-time underrated list. IDK if Sleepy would be dominant today, mainly because he took a lot of games off. If someone would have given him better motivation, I think he would be one of those guys that made it into a lot of top 20 GOAT lists.
So I'm going with Eric "Sleepy" Floyd.
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College superstar
Re: Which underrated 80's players would be dominant today?
Another thread for 35+ year olds to talk about how 15 ppg players would average 25 ppg in todays game. Your childhood is gone get over it.
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