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Originally Posted by Murphy3
This guy isn't a current player, but I recently took a look at his playoff stats... Chris Webber was a very good regular season player, but his numbers dropped significantly in the playoffs. I think we can list him as overrated.
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Thats very true. Weber got the all credit for the upsurge in the Kings when he came to the team. What people forgot was that Divak got there at the same time. It was actually Devak and his kick out ball movement that was the key to the Kings success. When Weber was out of the line ups they were still efficiant and won. But when Divak was out they began to struggle.
One example is that during one of their last years together the Kings were playing better than ever in the second half of the season with Weber out of the line up. When the playoff began there was questioning whether playing a now heathy Weber would destroy the goond chemistry. Well they reinserted Webber back into the lineup it did change the chemistry and they tanked. Weber was a ball movement killer and that was the bread and butter of the Kings. Also after Valdi was not resigned Peja no longer got the ball in his spots and struggled and the Kings started their downhill slide. Divak was the team leader and quarterback. Most Kings fans realized that only after he left. The national media still thinks it was mostly Weber who was the key player.