Is Chris Bosh Overrated?
In case you missed it, the Miami Heat took their respective talents to New York to face the Knicks Friday night. LeBron James was booed by the crowd because they wanted him to come there as a free agent, as if he didn’t have every right to choose someplace else—give him a break, already. He had a monster game anyway. Dwyane Wade did his thing like only he can and nobody was mad at him.
However, Chris Bosh heard it from the crowd every single time he stepped to the free throw line. What did he hear exactly?
Every. Single. Time.
To be honest, I thought it was a bit much for the synchronized fans to chant “overrated” at Chris Bosh. The guy’s a top-notch power forward in the NBA who’s trying to fit into a new system that he Wade and James have forged together. True enough, he seemed invisible for many of their first several games (especially when they would lose) and his rebounding could be better.
The fact of the matter is, Bosh was not nearly the household name Wade or James was coming into this season because he played in Toronto, who don’t get a lot of TV airtime.
His offense has steadied and the guy is averaging 18 points a game. Granted, he does not boast the same type of post presence as Amare Stoudemire or Blake Griffin, but that was never his game in the first place. Nonetheless, Bosh is an asset to the team.
Bosh isn’t overrated, just misunderstood. As a Raptor, he was the first option and much more dominant and dynamic. While he put forth a great individual effort every night, it got the team nowhere. Now he doesn’t have to play that way—he has a solid core most teams in the league would kill to have and some teams (such as the Knicks) are trying to recreate. Simply put, he’s taken on a lesser role.
But then again, as Jay-Z said, “Would you rather be underpaid or overrated?”
I’m sure Bosh will gladly take the latter.
Yeah it’s funny how they chant and say bosh is overated when they were killing themselves to get chris bosh… and they wanted chris bosh instead of amare now that bosh isn’t on there team they all talk there smack… Every Nba team would die to have bosh on there team. No hes not overrated if anything he doesn’t get the props and the respect that he deserves.
He became overrated because Miami tried to build this image of the “Big 3″. Bosh was an all-star in Toronto, but he was in TORONTO. Not taking away from his accomplishments, because obviously the man is a skilled & versatile forward, but his stats were essentially padded his whole career because there was little to no other real weapons on the team. Bosh will never again be the 1st option he was in Toronto as well he shouldn’t be. He’s nowhere near the tiers or Stoudemire, Nowitzski, Garnett, Gasol, Duncan, or Howard & I’d venture to say based strictly on skillset, he’s much close to the tier of the Harrigngtons or Jeffersons of the world… noticably better, but closer to them than to the elite status he’s being put on.
Bottomline: He’s an undeniably good basketball player & an asset to any team, but yes, CHRIS BOSH IS OVERRATED.