According to this guy: 100. BRANDON ROY SG, Portland Trail Blazers Age: 27 2010-11 Stats: 12.2 PPG, 40.0 FG%, 33.3 3PT%, 2.6 RPG, 2.7 APG Yup, I’m using the last spot as a giant metaphorical shoulder shrug, because no one could have any reasonable idea where to rank Roy at this point. This seems like a fair compromise for a guy whose 2011-12 season could fall anywhere from “sits out the entire year after feeling knee pain in the first game” to “single-handedly wins a postseason game.” In his prime, Roy was one of the league’s 20 best players, a Kobe Bryant-type shooting guard who could create his own shot like a point guard, dish to teammates and finish from anywhere on the court. Those are championship players capable of embracing the crunch-time burden, and Roy did it as well as anyone before knee problems crippled his game. That game is still in there, somewhere, as Roy showed in Game 4 of last season’s first-round series against Dallas, one of the greatest clutch performances you’ll ever see. But his defense has already suffered severely, and putting him much higher than this feels uncomfortable given all the uncertainty. http://nba-point-forward.si.com/201...ayers-pt-i-nos-91-100/?sct=hp_wr_a3&eref=sihp
Camby just missed making the Top 100 list. Marcus Camby, C, Portland Trail Blazers: Another of the final cuts, as Camby remains one of the league’s best rebounders on both ends of the court. But the 37-year-old’s rotations are getting slower, and big men who can hit from the mid-range give him problems because he does not want to get too far from the rim. He’s also barely an option on offense anymore, having used just 8.5 percent of Portland’s possessions in the playoffs.
Top 100 means one of the best 4 or 5 players per team. Roy showed he can be that player in the playoffs. I don't find this a reach. What other player on the roster can completely dominate a fourth quarter in the playoffs? LMA? Maybe Gerald Wallace? Andre Miller had the skills, but failed late in playoff games.
Dateline 2021---GrandPapaG posted today. "Who can we count on? Spacenik rebounds but doesn't score. Moonnut passes but can't lead the team. The Oregonian gave their favorite, Galaxy Boy, a good nickname but charisma won't win games. Andre Miller, that bastard who played for us 10 years ago, can't even lead his own old folks home in Sarasota, Florida. So who do we have?"
It's a lot closer to top 3 than top 4 or 5. Although I do still have hopes for Roy as a bench player.
In the regular season Roy was out 7th best player, he was less effective than Miller, Wes, Batum, Wallace, LaMarcus and Camby. In the playoffs he was 5th, better than Batum and Wes. To be the 100th best player in the NBA he will have to improve his regular season contribution to the team.
I wonder, did you have as much concern when Roy was underpaid his first 4 years as you do now that he's overpaid?
Roy was the #6 pick in 2006 and received a rookie scale contract that started at about $2.2 million. How do you compute the value of one player who in his first 4 years is R.O.Y., makes the AllStar team the next 3 years, and virtually single-handedly saves a franchise? I'd say he was underpaid for his contributions, at least in NBA salary terms.
