Seems a bit sloppy to talk about how the 76ers "landed" Petteri's rights, considering his rights ended up with Portland.
I love Martell, but considering we could have basically taken DWill and CP3 instead, I thought he might make the list.
Not really. TWO years in the league and only 60 odd games played.....that is Bowie/Pervis Ellison territory.
Yeah, but the guy had surgery before he even played a game. It takes a while to come back from that completely. If GO doesn't make a significant impact next season, I will be willing to concede that he is heading towards bust territory.
Even if Oden has the same kind of year he had last year, he is still a little bit away from being called a bust. Because his defending abilities of other bigs in the league is a valuable asset regardless of how much hype he had and that he was the #1 pick of one of the strongest draft classes of the decade.
Oden is a bust if all he ends up being is a quality defender, considering where he was picked and the players picked after him.
Given the level of pre-draft hype, Oden was pretty much doomed to disappoint many fans. The comparisons to Shaq/Hakeem/Robinson were way over-the-top for a kid who only had part of one college season behind him. To that extent, you are correct. OTOH, if Oden reaches his potential as a rebounding/defensive monster, he will still be one of the top two players out of that draft. (I am now going to grab some popcorn, and wait for the "Durant sucks" chorus of sour grapes! )
LeBrick James. Dude hasn't done shit. Even Wade has a ring. And Bosh wasn't expected to be amazing and neither was Melo. You can all disagree but LeBron has yet to deliver.
Neither Bowie nor Ellison "sucked ass", and both are regarded as huge flops. Now you want the world to change the rules for Oden? Not gonna happen.
An interesting note, Oden missed 7 games in his freshman year. So he played more than "part" of the year. He played in something like 32 of 39 games or something like that.
Refresh my aging memory. Isn't Dante the guy who swore that when he changed identities, he was going to clean up his act?
There is a difference between sucking and being hurt, but a player can be a bust for either reason. Len Bias didn't suck, and yet wouldn't everyone agree he was a bust for the Celtics? I don't think that Oden is anything APPROACHING a bust. He's been pretty good when he's been on the floor, and he's still younger than either Bowie or Ellison were when they entered the NBA. He could still evolve into a bust--either because of injury or inability to dominate--but I don't think he's close to that yet. Ed O.
I still wish Ammo was a Blazer, when they traded Sergio in the summer we should have traded him for Morrison the kids got potential.
