Is Tony Parker overrated?

[Euroleague]

If you are talking about skills, then yes, he is massively overrated actually. He's never been a good passer or play maker. He's not really a point guard, he's basically a shooting guard actually.

He's also not that good of a shooter. He's a good mid range to long mid range shooter. He has 3 point range certainly, but he's not a good 3 point shooter and it's not really something he can use tactically.

So yes, from a skills standpoint, he's massively overrated, because he's never really rated based on those issues in his game, especially being a point guard.

But his ability to drive and finish, and play in the Spurs system pretty much negated most of those weaknesses. That's probably why he never really had those weaknesses talked about too much.

Because it never shows so much.

With France's national team, they have showed a lot of times over the years though.

[Lebron23]

Best European Point Guard of All time.

[TripleA]

Best Playoff Series:

Chris Paul
24.6 / 12.0 on 50% (2008 WCR1, beat the Mavs)
23.7 / 10.7 on 50% (2008 WCR2, lost to Spurs)
22.5 / 11.8 on 51% (2014 WCR2, lost to Thunder)

Tony Parker
29.6 / 7.0 on 52% (2008 WCR1, beat the Suns)
28.6 / 6.8 on 55% (2009 WCR1, lost to Mavs)
24.5 / 9.5 on 53% (2013 WCF, beat the Grizzlies)

you have go to specific series you ass hat. How about you look at the entire playoffs clown. Chris Paul is first team all nba guard unlike tony. Dog its ok.
pretty much every one including players,coaches,media and generally people know Chris Paul is better than parker.

[ninephive]

Are you really gonna go there? Are you really comparing Parker's 2014 Finals performance to Leonard's? Are you forgetting who Leonard had to defend - the 28 pt best player in the league Lebron James compared to the sad duo of Chalmers/Cole (4/3 pts)?

Lol, choose your narrative bro. So Parker holds Chalmers and Cole below their averages (cut their scoring in half) and forces them to shoot terribly from the field (32%), but that's a negative for Parker now? And Lebron puts up better numbers than he did during the season (more PPG on better shooting) because Kawhi was "guarding" him? Sounds like you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.

[triangleoffense]

This is an interesting and legit question IMO.. Parker is the perfect system PG for Popovich and the Spurs... He has great court vision, driving and scoring ability but can be an undersized guard in certain matchups which makes him somewhat of a liability defensively. Luckily though playing in a system gives him a huge advantage

[rmt]

Lol, choose your narrative bro. So Parker holds Chalmers and Cole below their averages (cut their scoring in half) and forces them to shoot terribly from the field (32%), but that's a negative for Parker now? And Lebron puts up better numbers than he did during the season (more PPG on better shooting) because Kawhi was "guarding" him? Sounds like you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.

You and I both know that Chalmers was in a terrible slump from the beginning of May - even before the Finals. The narrative wasn't "Parker is playing such great defense on Chalmers." It was "What's wrong with the Heat's point guards? - getting no production out of them.

And you know darn well that Leonard defends Lebron as well as just about anyone in the league. It's part of the reason why they gave him DPOY award even though he missed a bunch of games.

And, I'm not a bro.