The Deep 3 Podcast - We Reacted To This CRAZY NBA Player Survey | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

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The Athletic recently did an NBA player survey in which they asked the NBA players to give them the most underrated and overrated players in the league amongst other categories. We are going to try to guess who the players picked for the top five was underrated, overrated, and like I said, several other categories. Biesel's hasn't pulled up. Let's see if we can guess them. And after that, we'll react to the full list. But first, see if we can nail the top five.

All right. Let's start off with the most overrated NBA players. I think we'd start in the most obvious place. They certainly said Ridical Bears overrated. He's my number one. He's gonna retire being on every overrated players list because the players hate him. Yeah, he's my number one pick easy. Is Gobert on here.

Gobert is on here. He is on here. He is at. I don't know if he's number one. Nah. You think he's phased out in number one territory? Probably yeah. The wolves weren't that good.

Whoa. He's at two. He's always top three. Number one is Shay on this list? Do they hate on Shay like that? They hate on behind closed doors though. You think they're going to say he's overrated? Is this?

Is this an anonymous source though? Yes, it's anonymous. I think players. I think she might be top five. I don't think they put Shay top five. Maybe he's like, maybe he's like 15th or something. I don't think they put him top five.

I still respect him enough because the MVP. Yeah, she's not here. Players respect him for sure. He is not in the top five. Yeah, that'd be crazy. No.

Do you think they're not turning on Kevin Durant, are they? They're going to respect Katie forever. They would never turn on. Yeah, they would never. No. No. He talks so much.

Maybe players have something to say about it, but he's a winner. What is Trey Young still? You think Trey is still on this list? He barely played this year At that point is punching down Is Trajong on his list? Yes, he is

Oh my God For what? Three Trey Yacht number three Who do fuck pulled him Bro Who the hell voted for Trey Young? His team traded him

To the Washington Wizards They traded him to the worst team The league And you're still in calm overrated I think we're done with that I think he's rated now You know, whatever players voted for him

They got some real beef with Trey The whole Knicks roster He's victim Okay So we got Rudy Gober and Trey Young We need somebody that like made Maybe like a quick rise up the ranks

Because maybe people were just hating on that You think they're hating on Austin Reeves Fuck no There's Austin Reeves on here? Laker Uh no he is not Okay No Austin Reeves

Is Amanda Thompson on here Are they hating on him? Nope Shangoon Why would Shangoon be here? Sangoon is Number one Oh

Wow Wow The players cooked The players no wall Big Goon. The players know ball. They know hoop. They know defense.

They have bronze back. That's crazy. They say everybody in the league can talk. Not you. Not you though. Okay. You don't say that. If Shingoon is here, it's Paulo here.

Yes. How is at five. Whoa. The players are starting to be awakened right now. The players no ball. I didn't think they didn't say that. I thought they'd get Paulo credit because he's like playoff riser and gets buckets and stuff. Yeah.

But no, the players said, now, get back and rotate on defense, buddy. Swing the Rockmore. Is Jai on this list? No, close, though. Jerry? Jha. Jaya is close to the top five.

Okay. Is James Harden here? No. Okay, give us a hint for number four. Donovan will have strong reactions. Is this Jaylon Brunson? No. Carlty Towns?

Yes. Okay. Cat number four. Interesting. The players don't know what's a cat? Interesting. To me, this is just the most hated list. Pretty much.

Yeah. That's really interesting. But you know what? Overrated? Besides Gobert. That's crazy. I get it. We're at the point on Gobert is obviously not overrated anymore.

I kind of get the list, though. I think they mostly cooked. All right. Next category. Well, show us the full overrated list on the side. Show us to who else got votes. I bet. All right.

Here is the list for the most overrated players. One second year. All right, here we go. this is the whole list you got some gobert tray cat oh joll was tied with palo yeah he was tied

I'm surprised denny wasn't Denny's number seven was he Tyrese Halliburn there but no I'm surprised he's not like Tyrese halliborne played no games why is he here you can still be overrated for what he didn't do anything

unless it was so hyper that's crazy as hell some of beep pods B pods in every mobily being the same That's funny Two percent of those Yeah, MBA players voting on this is so Somebody voted Siacom and Scotty Barnes

Someone who, that most be players Are bad defenders Seacum, bro, that got to be a Nick player Who did that I got to be a Nick's player who did that Sabonis got on the list Yeah, he's lucky he didn't play much No Celtics players, let's go

Scottie Barnes is kind of disgusting also Yeah, how could Scottie Barnes be overrated No one talks about the Raptors? Yeah, Pajemski here is so hilarious That's so good They don't like them Tyler Hero gets a vote

Respect Okay sure Most his list makes sense Yeah Not surprised that this is a group That the players Are all kind of like Shangoon ran away with this

Yeah that's crazy And you know what It's correct Does he talk that much? I don't know Yes no he does Yeah There's a reason

LeBron said what he said Yeah no he's Yeah he's I think he does a little theatrics Like he does the flailing stuff While acting like he's above it Complaining about calls a lot So that's the thing

Well also not being like that like Luca does all that but he gives you 35 so like I can see why he's annoying to players I guarantee Josh Hart had a vote and voted for Tavis Howard Burton and also fucking Tiaco guarantee I guarantee Josh Hart voted for Carltonty Towns for fun yeah I guarantee

just fucking everything else I think he understands like cats a target so he wouldn't do that he voted for Brunson makes sense Josh Hart joked around voted for Brunson he knows better to attack cat because he knows the stigma around him all right next category Most underrated this time. Most underrated.

Super respect. Okay. Underrated league right now. This is a nerdy pick. I don't think the players to say this, but is Franz Wagner on here? No, he's not. Okay.

No Franz. Okay. James Johnson on here. You know what, Mo? Yes, he is. He is at number one. Whoa, that's crazy. Okay.

You know, first time all star of the players all said he deserved it. It makes sense. Yeah. There's a clip of Yokic. He was interviewed before. for the Hawks game and he was like, yeah, I like watching Jalen Johnson.

He was like a little deer running around. Just figuring out of his powers. Yeah, it was hilarious. He's a Jaila Jaila Jolla Jop's. He's Bambi. Is, is, uh, is chat on this list or J-dub? Nah.

The two envious of the Thunder to put him on here. Nah, no, no, no, thunder's in the top five. Is it Stefan Castle on here? I bet players love his brand of defense. Nope. Sur. A-Sahar? Nope.

is somehow like one of the rookies here like Cooper flag or con no let me let me say this as a hint I would be very happy with these picks jaylon brown's on here ew jaylon brown or pay and purchase yes jaylon brown is at ew three is Derek white on this list yeah jillin brown is at three okay yeah uh not my list I wouldn't say that but okay I understand why players respect the season he has players definitely are always going to respect somebody elevating the first option when they weren't doing that before. They're always in respect that. You have former players on TV saying he's the fucking MVP.

Like, yeah, that's how to get respect. Okay. And Donovan actually got another guess. Derek White is at two. That makes sense to me. That makes total sense. Okay. You think Eric Gordon is on this list?

Did you say Eric Gordon? Aaron. You're about to spit on him. Most underrated players. Eric Gordon. Okay. Aaron Gordon. I think coaches would definitely say Eric Gordon.

I want to players will. Yeah, I wonder if players. Is Aaron Gordon on here? Aaron Gordon is not on here. Okay. That's a coach's pick for sure. Talking about players who rose this past year is Nikkel Alexander Walker here. No.

Maxie, maybe. Tyreys Maxie. Tyreys Maxie. Yeah, he's a good option. Nope. No? What? No.

Player stripping. I gave us a hint. Give us a hint. Oh, I'm still very, very happy with the rest of this list. Tatum? No. Is it Pritchard? Yes.

Payam Pritchard is at 5. Okay, that's respectable Yes, pay and purchase it out. It's just a glazed list. It's a straight Celtics. Two Celtics is nasty. The players just love the Celtics. Is the Mias Kada number four?

No. Samhouser. Y'all are still on the right line, though. I ain't going on line. What? Right. Motherfucking Jordan Walsh? Let me say this.

He's a former Celtic. Oh, former Celtic. Robert Williams? Very recent, though. Very recent. Very recent. Drew Holiday, yeah. Yes.

He's routine. Yeah. Okay, he's always underrated. Yo, this is a Celtics Glaze Fest. And Jaylon Johnson. Fucking four guys for Celtics and Jaylon Johnson. All right.

Who else did the players give votes to? Yes. And then the rest of the list is so here we go. Okay. Nikola is underwalkers here. Austin Reeves. Oh,

I'm telling you, the players really respect when players have to elevate into bigger roles and Austin Reefs that do that early in the year without Luke and LeBron. I love,

I love Chris Dunn being here. That makes hell of Chris Dunn. Chris Dunn, okay. Brandon Ingrams. Colin Gillespie's on this? okay that's fair i like that jada macdaniel's very real oh g's mentioned yeah oj mentioned sadie bay yeah resurgeant year okay now we're looking at 1.3% of the votes quitting grimes this is looking this is 1.2% jordan miller this means one person voted for them so it's

just their fucking friend or them or them you could who's stopping you from writing your own name down i bet ryan rollins wrote his own name i gave it to you right ron ronald's wrote his own name All right. Okay, I respect it. It's a little Bamana Bios on there. We're getting one vote. I'm just coordinated a bit. Just one vote.

Was Asia Wilson actually a vote? One single vote. Exactly. Okay. All right. Next category. Most impressive NBA coach. Impressive.

Joe Mozilla got to be one. Joe Mozilla is puppy number one. Yeah. Joe Missoula is number one. Yeah, makes sense. Absolute masterclass season. If only it transferred to the playoffs. Absolute astroclass in the playoffs.

Davey Baker staff has to be on. here as well got to yes jd bickett staff is at three is spolster on this list what spolstra is on this list he is at four you guys are on fire yeah it's just like a coach of the air ballot essentially yeah so what what what patterns are we seeing that makes a player

be impressed with these coaches you think your team should not be as good as they are you think players are more impressed by like exes and those coaches or like work hard is email on this list yeah i'm sorry are they impressed by hell no they got to hate e-may email is not on this list they're impressed by e-may telling him he's a big Bitch, lock him up. Is JJ Radick on here?

That'd be funny. He should be. No, he's not. He's not far from the top five, though. Okay. I think Jordan and out might be too dirty. No, Jordan, I got to be on this list, I think. Jordan is at five.

Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, Jordan not deserves that. You think Steve Kerr still gets a spot being grandfathered in? Nah, I think everyone's like, man, I could do his job. That they're not impressed at all? Yeah. Yeah. He did Kamiga dirty. Yeah.

I don't know about that, but yeah. You know the players, Sao Kamika and that beef? players would players fucking would cam thomas like yeah man they did me just like you number two who are probably blanking

on someone off Jamal Mosley no y'all are mad over thinking this Doc Rubers no it's Mark Dagnol it's Mark Dagnol yeah okay yeah

Doc Rivers I was going to see for what and they cooked here this is probably the five the top three is like the best coaches of the season

yeah and their exposure gets it forever Jordan not the newcomer this is a perfect list honestly okay yeah this is the

the rest of the list. Mitch Johnson should have been on there. I think Charles Lee should have been higher for sure. David Adelman. Will Riley. Warrety? Oh, Riley, what the hell? Out of 146 votes.

Okay. Where Kyle? I didn't get a lot of votes. Surprising. Tyron Lou, I thought people would expect him more. It was a gap year. Yeah. E-May all the way at the bottom.

Receiving one vote. You made doka. Damn. Hey, Mike Brown mentioned. Mike Brown mentioned. Tyron and Lou should have been higher for sure. sure. Remember when everyone thought

Quinn Snyder was like a genius? Yeah. The game passing by. Reading a bear merchant. A lot of those late 2010s coaches were geniuses at the time, shit changes real fast.

Now of a sudden Mike Boontholder isn't too smart. Quinn Snyder isn't too smart. Yeah, I'm glad Brad Stevens got out of their question. Tyrone Loolew? Tyrone Lose another one. Yeah.

He's still solid. He's still solid. He adapted. He adapted. He adapted. All right. Next. Least impressive NBA coach. Doc Rupert.

Doc Rupert. Yeah, 100%. Dr. He has to be on here. Yeah, Doc Rivers is at two. Ryan Rawlins stuffed the ballots. He made sure the Doc Rivers got a lot of votes. I think the players probably respect him a little bit.

He may actually is not on this list. Yeah, no, they sure. You know, he's a work hard type of guy. Is Chris Finch on this list? Nah. No, no, no. It's Steve Kerr here. Steve Kerr is.

Yes, he is on here. Wow, the players don't respect Steve Curry more? They'd be like, bro, anyone could do his job. You got Steph, Dre. Curry made. Yeah. Shit's easy. It's slight.

You think they're hating on JJ Reddick? that would be surprising No, they're not, they're not I mean, I don't think this is really We should have said this to the first place They definitely put Jamal Mosey on here, right? No, they did not. Wow.

They're not that captain. It should be, but they're not. Respect. He's up there, though, relatively. Least impressive coach. Least impressive. So, now San Antonio. Who's more unimpressive than dog reviews?

Is Jason Kidd on this list? Nah, yeah, y'all are thinking too good of names. Who's the worst coach that's going to be less respected than Doc Rivers. I don't know. Who are these terrible coaches? The bad, bad teams. Oh, fucking, what's his name?

Why am I blinking? Who was? Doug Christie. Is Doug Christie on here? Doug Christie is on here, though. Yeah, okay. He had to be. Doug Christie.

I'm just making sure he is the Kings coach. One in five, one in five. Damn. Are these actively, like, tanking teams like that? Yes. One isn't. Is Brian Keith here? Yes, he is at one.

That's unfair. I can't tell you a single thing about Brian Keith. I'm not going to lie. I can't give you a defining trait of Brian Keith as a coach. The only thing that I know about Brian Keith is that his wife has like some like housewife show. And he'd be making appearances here and there. Good for Brian Keith's wife. Income.

The more you know. Dual income. Salute. Oh, but yeah, listen, man, when you have 83 dropped on you, you're not a very impressive coach. He's the face of it. Five is a veteran coach at this point Veteran coach been here for a while dog shit Okay, it's past him

Terrible coach that has been here for a while But I will say His team's record is not dog shit dog shit Yeah, but it's Billy Donovan You are correct, it is Billy Donovan Interesting, players don't respect mid Yeah Wow

Interesting, okay You know that It's not his fault I like one two and three All right Yeah they're hating on the bottom man but one, two, and three, they did well. Damn, Brian Keith.

Oh, my God. Brian, see, I said, I don't know much about Brian Keith. He must be dodged. They must all know. They must be sitting in whispers. He got 22% of the votes. That's crazy.

There's a lot of the votes. Nick Nurse, Mike Brown. We know what that means though. They definitely remember 83. That's the, like, had to happen. That's definitely it. All right. EMA, JJ, and Jamal.

I got the same amount. Okay. Mike Brown. People are starting to notice, man. I'm just glad Doc Rivers is up. Then you get to the conference. All right. Last category.

Best defender. Whemby? Yes. Uniteasy number one. Yeah, he's obviously number one. After that, though,

you have think it's going to be defenders that players respect. I don't think they're putting Chet on here. Is Asar on here? No, I don't think they're putting it. A SAR has to be on here. Yes, he is at 5. Okay.

Assar makes sense. Okay. But yeah, they're not going to put, they're not going to put Gobert. No, mine. Asar is not on here. Oh. Is J.

McDaniels on here? Yes. he is at five. Okay. Sorry's at six though. Sorry's at six. Okay, sorry, six. So he's tied with Jamie Daniels.

Is Chris Dunn here? Yes, Chris Dunn is here. Yeah, he got the, interesting. Chris Dunn is two. He gets a lot of co-signs, yeah. That makes a lot of votes. Probably, I'm sure one of the more underrated players in the league to players.

Is Drew Holiday on this list? Perpetually, he's going to be Drew Holiday forever. Drew Holiday is not on this list. Okay, good. It's a good thing. He aged out of this part. He got votes, though. He got votes.

Yeah. I mean, did they put Ridicle Bear? I doubt it. No. Yeah, they're not going to find him impressive. Is Derek Ward on this list? Derek Ward is not on this list. Okay, do we want to try Chad?

Okay. Is Chad Homegren on this list? No, which I find crazy. Okay, is Kays and Wallace on this list? You know what's crazy I'm looking at? He's not even on the list. They don't respect him at all? Damn.

Case and Wallace is not on this list. No, wait. Caruso? Lou Dort and Kays and Walsas are on this list, not in the top five. Okay, okay, that makes sense. Oh, Caruso? Is Caruso is, no. He didn't get votes.

No one on. He didn't give votes? The players are going. That's crazy. Wow. Wow. Okay. So they're all salty, but okay, say they all be fouling, man.

Exactly. The best defender. Scotty Barnes. Is he on here? Yes, Scottie Barnes is at four. That makes total sense of players of respect him. You know what it is? He's just strong as fuck.

And if you face him one time as a player, I guarantee you they don't forget it. Is OG on this list? OG is not on this list. He did get votes. Yeah. Okay. Moby's not on here, right? No.

Hell no. Better respect that DPRO at all. Jaron Jackson on here? Yeah. I'll give y'all a hint. It is a legacy pick at this point. It's a legacy pick. Yes.

Dremont? No. Oh, Dremont shouldn't have a legacy pick at three. That would have made sense. A legacy pick for defense? Maybe legacy pick is the wrong word. He's an older name though.

Veteran. Veteran defensive player. No. No. Oh, is this Kauai Leonard? Yes. Yeah, okay. Legacy pick is still strap up.

He's still not a bad defender at all. Yeah. It's a legacy pick a little bit. A little bit of a legacy. Yeah. Third best defender. All right. And this is the rest of the list.

Look how big of the gap is. Whemby, whimby, whimby, whimby. That's outrageous. And then Tumani Kamara. 41%. Wow. Wow. And it's interesting because I want to know if they knew that they were doing a ballot.

Because if it's just, hey, who's the best defender, then it really should be 100%. But I guess everyone else was like. Yeah. I don't know if it says, I'm sure it says it's, the article, the methodology, if it's, you give like a top five or what? Yeah. It makes sense. They fucking hate Rudy Obert, bro.

They do not respect Rudy Gobert or any of those OKC defenders, though. Yeah. Game's a game. That's nuts. Lou got it. But Lou got it. Yeah, they all got two percent. Hey, shout out to Balau Kulubali, man.

Kiyah, Kiyos. Yeah. People just going for the friends. Wait, keep scrolling. Yeah, keep going. This is. Evan Mowley got the same about it. Dude, the last year's DPO.

They don't like Evan, man. That's Balal Kulabali. Good for him. Damn, man. They don't fuck with him. Shout to Herb Jones still being in the Zite guys. You know, still around. Oh, shit.

You forget that a year ago, year and a half ago, we say he's best premier defendant in the league. How fastening change? That's crazy. I'm really surprised Chris Dunn is having this much respect. He's elite. No, he's like that. Shout out Chris Dunn.

Yeah.