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Chauncey Billups back with the Detroit Pistons.
I've actually heard him mentioned as a "future hall of famer" more than once in the last month.
I always thought that his new coach Maurice Cheeks is a good comparison: long career, key player on a championship team and several other contenders, a few marginal seasons with other teams. Cheeks played in 4 ASGs, Billups 5.
Both solid picks for the Hall of Pretty Good.
Billups was one of the most efficient point guards in NBA history. He was a great defender who shot three-pointers very well and stayed within his game throughout his career. His career Player Efficiency Rating of 19.0 is higher than Cheeks (or Hall of Famer Joe Dumars) ever posted in a single season.
There are only two eligible players who have won Finals MVP and not made the Hall of Fame: Jo Jo White, whose exclusion is nonsensical, and Cedric Maxwell. Billups probably will be the third because it took him so long to find his role in the NBA.
Had he won the 2005-06 NBA MVP, as John Hollinger and several other statistical-minded writers have argued he should have, he would be a lock to make the Hall of Fame. The basketball statistics crowd has much less pull than the baseball crowd, though.
Thoughts?
Chauncey Billups back with the Detroit Pistons.
I've actually heard him mentioned as a "future hall of famer" more than once in the last month.
I always thought that his new coach Maurice Cheeks is a good comparison: long career, key player on a championship team and several other contenders, a few marginal seasons with other teams. Cheeks played in 4 ASGs, Billups 5.
Both solid picks for the Hall of Pretty Good.
Billups was one of the most efficient point guards in NBA history. He was a great defender who shot three-pointers very well and stayed within his game throughout his career. His career Player Efficiency Rating of 19.0 is higher than Cheeks (or Hall of Famer Joe Dumars) ever posted in a single season.
There are only two eligible players who have won Finals MVP and not made the Hall of Fame: Jo Jo White, whose exclusion is nonsensical, and Cedric Maxwell. Billups probably will be the third because it took him so long to find his role in the NBA.
Had he won the 2005-06 NBA MVP, as John Hollinger and several other statistical-minded writers have argued he should have, he would be a lock to make the Hall of Fame. The basketball statistics crowd has much less pull than the baseball crowd, though.
Thoughts?
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