The NBA All-Overrated Team

Starting at Point Guard, from Santa Clara University: Steve Nash

This should be pretty self-explanatory. For such an "elite" player there's no excuse for Nash's constant lack of defensive abilities. Not only does he fail miserably at the defensive end, he allows the opposing point guards to continually blow by him.

This in turn allows for opposing point guards to either match Nash's numbers or put up some significantly better than Nash's. Also, when an opposing point guard is physical on him, Nash turns the ball over way too much.

Finally, the only word Nash knows on defense is the word "flop."

Starting at Shooting Guard, from the University of Michigan: Jamal Crawford

He's good from the foul line, and can light it up on the scoreboard, but beyond that he's been a major bust for the Knicks since they got him.

He shoots in the 40-percent range for his career, and he's decent from the three point line, but with all the abilities he has he should be leading the Knicks to a better record then they have had in the last few years.

Starting at Small Forward, from the University of Kentucky: Tayshaun Prince

Prince is a solid defender, but offensively he's very limited. He needs to develop more of a post game. He's a decent passer and has some range. He needs to become a more solid rebounder from the small forward position.

Starting at Power Forward, from Wurzburg, Germany: Dirk Nowitzki

Dirk is 7'0" tall, has a lot of length, and still doesn't rebound like a power forward should. He plays more like a small forward then a power forward.

He's not that great defensively and the thing that helped him the most last year in regards to shooting was the addition of Jason Kidd. Also, it's bad when a team throws out no one taller then 6'8" on him, and still shuts him down in the playoffs.

Starting at Center, from Shanghai, China: Yao Ming

There has been talk on Bleacher Report of Yao being the best center in the NBA—and I  find that absolutely ridiculous. No one epitomizes the word soft as much as Yao does.

Physically, he's weak. He doesn't have the ability to stay with more mobile centers because of his length—not really his fault but it does hinder him when trying to go for loose balls, running up the court, and moving his feet.

The next problem with Yao is that in the past three seasons, he hasn't played more then 57 games and over that span he's missed a total of 86 games.

Yao also needs to work on is getting to the line more. Last year Dwight Howard got to the line almost 11 times per game; Lebron James, 10.3; Allen Iverson, 9.7; Corey Maggette, 9.7; Kevin Martin, 9.5; Dwayne Wade, 9.2; Kobe Bryant, 9.1; Amare Stoudemire, 8.8; Chris Bosh, 8.3; Richard Jefferson, 8.3; Carmelo Anthony, 7.7; Gilbert Arenas, 7.4—and Yao Ming was at 7.4 free throw attempts per game.

Yao comes in 13th on the list. That's not acceptable—especially if Dwight Howard, another center, is averaging almost four more free throws per game.

Now, making free throws is a different story. Yao is a very good free throw shooter, but it doesn't take away from the fact that he's not getting the man guarding him into foul trouble.

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