Rockets' Jalen Green named among "the most overrated" players in the NBA

It can be difficult to quantify how different NBA players are rated.

You'd need to do a comprehensive straw poll. Otherwise, what's your measurement? When you say that a player is over - or under - rated, what are you basing your assessment on?

Besides, we're talking about a swinging pendulum. We've seen players so frequently classified as overrated that they begin to become underrated. The inverse also occurs. How underrated can a player be if he's constantly named one of the most underrated players in the NBA?

So, listing the most overrated players in the NBA can be a fool's errand. That didn't stop Bleacher Report. They just named the Houston Rockets' Jalen Green as the second-most overrated player in the NBA.

Houston Rockets guard named among league's most overrated

How are Bleacher Report justifying their position?

"Even at his most complicated, Green wields a marketable skill set, as someone who can generate his own shot and break down defenses from dead stops and can also provide some stretch away from the ball. Nobody should be entirely out on him. But it's past time for us to start taking his late-schedule surges with a metric ton of salt—until or unless that version of Green shows up in October, November, and December, and, well, you get the point. "

Dan Favale, Bleacher Report

That's the thrust of their argument. Bleacher Report is suggesting that Green's habit of surging late in the year has led to him becoming overrated.

We're not so sure. If you wanted to argue that Green was one of the most inconsistent players in the NBA, you'd have a case. You could even argue that due to that inconsistency, Green has fallen as short of predraft expectations as anyone.

Does that make him overrated?

Houston Rockets guard seems appropriately rated

The essential question is this: who's doing the rating?

Green has no shortage of doubters - and rightfully so. Still, according to our own anecdotal observations, he has more doubters than believers at this stage.

Perhaps Bleacher Report has had a different experience. Fair enough. Once again - this is difficult to quantify. Green doesn't seem overrated to us:

But who are we to say?