John Wall: The overlooked one

LeBron James. Kevin Durant. Stephen Curry, Russel Westbrook, James Harden. The names go on and on for these famous and constantly recognized players. The great one should get great fame, right?

But not John Wall. It's funny, name Bradley Beal, John Wall's teammate, and instantly we think, oh, yeah, that's the young kid who's good. Hey, what about John Wall? Hmm? Oh, yeah, he's good too.

But John Wall is not some easily outmatched, outplayed guy. Some recent stats, for instance: (BTW you can only see all his stats if your zoom is at 90 or less)

Top that off with his relatively large size for a point guard, 6-4, and his humble, collected attitude, and you have a rounded, great player. But he still gets overlooked. Why?

One might point to his team's success. True, the wizards have never been very good, and a quality of a great player is a great team. But this season Washington is posting a eight games above five hundred standing. That's no Golden State caliber, but at least it's improvement. And John wall is the key to their success. Which is why I've named him MOP: Most Overlooked Player. John does it all; defense, offense, ball-sharing. Posting 9.8 assist per game as well as 17 points is no easy feat. Wall is an avid, ferocious player on defense, too: 1.7 steals a game, and nearly five rebounds. If I were to place John in terms of best point guards, I'd have him only behind Russel Westbrook, Chris Paul, and Stephen Curry. Yet, sadly, no one else seems to put him in that place.He's overlooked again and again.

Sorry, John.

-WillowTalksBasketball