I liked Iggy's idea, but I thought I'd make it more challenging. What's the best starting lineup you could think of that is completely made of perennial underachievers. I know the term is still subjective, so you have to be a little flexible. I'm looking for players that most people consider a waste of their talent, but still manage to entice GM's with their potential. And try not to choose really good players, by saying that they still have a lot of potential that they didn't use (eg: Vince Carter). Here's mine: Eddy Curry Stromile Swift Lamar Odom Quentin Richardson Jason Williams That was much harder than I thought it would be.
<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I liked Iggy's idea, but I thought I'd make it more challenging. What's the best starting lineup you could think of that is completely made of perennial underachievers. I know the term is still subjective, so you have to be a little flexible. I'm looking for players that most people consider a waste of their talent, but still manage to entice GM's with their potential. And try not to choose really good players, by saying that they still have a lot of potential that they didn't use (eg: Vince Carter). Here's mine: Eddy Curry Stromile Swift Lamar Odom Quentin Richardson Jason Williams That was much harder than I thought it would be.</div> Hmm, Richardson. I pick: Steve Francis Darius Miles Lamar Odom Mike Dunleavy (The token white guy) Kwame Brown This team would fail miserably. EDIT: daam man, Its 4:46 A.M. What are you doing up? You stole my Dunleavy! heh Replace Dunleavy with J.R Smith, and put Odom at PF.
c: sam bowie pf: joe smith sf: lamar odom sg: juan dixon (i always loved this guy, but he never really turned out) pg: william avery (homer pick) you may also just substitute any player besides KG and possibly sczcerbiak drafted by mchale.
C- Eddy Curry PF- Stromile Swift/Nikoloz Tskitishvili/Marcus Fizer SF- Kedrick Brown (picked #11 2001, has done nothing)/Ryan Humphrey SG- DerMarr Johnson PG- Matean Cleaves I could go on, but I think that's about enough...
PG- Omar Cook SG- Kareem Rush SF- Darius Miles PF- Rasheed Wallace C- Eddy Curry All time: PG- Bobby Hurley SG- Mel Davis SF- Marvin Barnes PF- Elmore Smith (more of a center. Oh well) C- Reggie Harding
Bobby Hurly isn't fair. He has a very good rookie season, and got in a very serious, unrelated accident.
C: Michael Olowakandi / Eddy Curry / Erick Dampier (dominant to okay offense, but they just don't try hard) PF: Eddie Griffin / Stromile Swift (both could have been good, but they just blew it several times) SF: Darius Miles (high potential, nice numbers when motivated, low work ethic) SG: Latrell Sprewell (arguable, but the old guy wouldn't even do what Payton/Karl Malone did for a chance at the championship). All that talent and he was in it for ego and money and using the pretenses of feeding his family and trying to help a team win a ring. PG: Steve Francis / Stephon Marbury (all that talent but they don't understand the things a point guard needs to do to win. Instead, one self proclaims to be the best point guard in the league and the other is nicknamed "the franchise".) I'd pick Jerome Moiso and Marcus Haislip for underachieving power forwards but they just suck. They were athletes, not basketball players. So there was nothing more to offer a team other than jumping ability and height. Dunleavy could be an underachiver, but he just sucks, but anything could happen this year, I suppose to prove us all wrong. Sucking in the nba to begin with is not underachieving.
I don't see how Lamar Odom made so many lists......He is an agile SF/PF and is a walking triple double almost every game.....How has he not delivered? I also wouldn't consider Francis and Marbury underachievers, they do what they can to win, it's just they never do. If you label them underachievers when they try but just don't produce a win then you should label Paul Pierce, Jason Richardson, Allen Iverson, etc. as well. Anyway, here is my list. C - Eddy Curry PF - Maurice Taylor SF - Mike Dunleavy SG - J.R. Smith PG - Juan Dixon
