Usually every new NBA season there is always a player who had a terrific rookie season,and comes back in his 2nd season and doesnt improve or plays worst. This has happened to many players,recently we can say Dajuan Wagner and Caron Butler had sophmore slumps.I remeber both of them having pretty good rookie years but they hjust didnt play well as 2nd year players. So,do you guys think this will happen to any of last seasons rookies,maybe the players who are on a team that just aquired a new star player, and that could lead to a lesser role for them.
Well it obviously happened to Michael Jordan, and Dajuan Wagner is a good example. This year, I think if anyone it will be Kirk Hinrich. I have no idea why, I just have a feeling...
I don't think Kirk Hinrich is a better than average player, and always will be. He reminds me of a lower passing skill John Stockton. I expect his points rebounds and assits to rise this season. I think stat wise Dwyane Wade will go down because of Shaq.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> I think stat wise Dwyane Wade will go down because of Shaq.</div> Howso? Maybe he'll take away from Wade's points per game, but there's more to stats than that. In the NBA, Wade is a point guard, and the key stat with point guards is assists. Getting Shaq just means getting more assists. Besides, his points per game average shouldn't go down <u>that</u> much. Perhaps O'Neal will just take the defender's focuss off of Wade, thus providing Wade with better looks. Anyway, my pick for this year's big Sophomore slump is Chris Bosh; just a gut feeling. I also think Drew Gooden will break out ofd his slump in Clreveland.
I'm sorry to say but I actaully think the slump will hit Camelo a little bit but not too much. Just my guess.
How can he have a slump? There is nothing to slump from, the only way he can go is up. He barely played last year, and he won't get much mroe this year, and if he did his numbers would increase. I got to disagree with you on this one.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Pure:</div><div class="quote_post">How can he have a slump? There is nothing to slump from, the only way he can go is up. He barely played last year, and he won't get much mroe this year, and if he did his numbers would increase. I got to disagree with you on this one.</div> Dude, as soon as I read Chungster's post, I thought the same thing and then seen your's.
willie green?i think he'll have a ok year but everybody's expecting to have a pretty good year and he really hasnt been proven that much. i think he'll underperform because everybody's expecting him to do well and he'll get the pressure.i dont think this counts that much as a slump but i dunno..yea and for some reason my first reaction was kirk hinrich wen i saw this thread
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Chungster:</div><div class="quote_post">Darko Mlicic. He will do nothing but prove how greater of a bust he is.</div> that's Cold. But it might be true if he didnt work this offseaosn. But he needs minutes to prove how greater of a bust he is and I don't think hes gonna get them. I think Darko should take a page out of Ebi's books. I mean Ebi i (in the articles oI've read) seems to know what his "role" is right now and he is workoing hard with the T-Wolves, just because Milicic was abust doesnt mean he hwas to makehis name worse by crying to the media and ocmplaining that he needs more minutes to 'prove' himself. prove it in the practice court and work your way in. On topic: Although I didn't tfollow the progression of the rookies, I think it will hit Carmelo, not in the fact that he will lose his prestige, but not progress as fast as some would expect, and the Lebron and Carmelo gap would widen by a bit. That's what i think. but thats all on a hunch(and the Olympics, a little). I guess all thes epredictions are(unless you've been paying attention to the offseason and preseason).
Ebi is very lucky, he has two legends working with him almost every day. Kevin McHale taught KG all his moves, and he is doing the same with Ebi. Also, Garnett helps him out a lot.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Pure:</div><div class="quote_post">Well it obviously happened to Michael Jordan, and Dajuan Wagner is a good example. This year, I think if anyone it will be Kirk Hinrich. I have no idea why, I just have a feeling...</div> It didn't happen to Jordan. Jordan was injured with a broken foot,he didn't have a sophomore slump. When he came back from the injury he was as good as ever.
^exactly slump and injruy are different things...but yeah i think Hinrich might hit the wall because he is not Stockton at all and i dont see why he's going like top 50 in fantasy!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting iversonfan3:</div><div class="quote_post">willie green?i think he'll have a ok year but everybody's expecting to have a pretty good year and he really hasnt been proven that much. i think he'll underperform because everybody's expecting him to do well and he'll get the pressure.i dont think this counts that much as a slump but i dunno..yea and for some reason my first reaction was kirk hinrich wen i saw this thread</div> Do any of you understand? You cannot have a sophmore slump if you didn't do anything in your rookie year. The only few players that could have a soph slump are Bosh, James, Melo, Wade, Hinrich, and possibly Josh Howard. Absolutely, no one else!
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The only few players that could have a soph slump are Bosh, James, Melo, Wade, Hinrich, and possibly Josh Howard. Absolutely, no one else!</div> Well out of this list I'll say Melo. Just cuz of K-Mart taking' some of his points and boards. But not in a negative way. And I think you can add Marquis Daniels on this list, both of the Dallas sophmores made the 2nd rookie team. Saying that Marquis will also be in a slump do to Dirk, Terry, Finley, Stackhouse, Howard, Harris, Dampier, all being able to score.
Caron Butler is lighting up. He will continue to do so this year. He had 18 points in the first quarter last night!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Chungster:</div><div class="quote_post">Darko Mlicic. He will do nothing but prove how greater of a bust he is.</div> I don't see why people are still knocking on him. I'm not sure if you realize, but he did not play a whole hell of a lot last year. He never got a chance to prove anything. The kid is still a work in progress. And quite frankly, there's no way he can have a slump, cause, by all means, he should at least make some more appearances in games this year. The kid has all the talent in the world, he just hasn't had a chance to prove it yet. I don't like when people say he's a bust because he hasn't done anything yet. Well, quite frankly, he hasn't had a chance to do anything yet. He never saw minutes last year, and with Sheed coming back and the signing of Antonio McDyess, he may not see much time this year, but, who knows, that might be good, because he's still a teenager, he's barely older than me. I don't see how he can have a slump and how he can be called a bust at this point, it's just unfair judgement of a kid who hasn't had the chance to be judged. About Caron Butler real quick, the guy was hurt a lot of last year. He missed a large part of the first half of the season due to injury, and he didn't work his way back into the starting lineup til a few weeks after he had came back from the injury, so I think that's the real reason why he had a stat drop. It didn't help also, that some kid by the name of Dwyane Wade came in and took the league by storm. Did anyone ever think of those two factors when they said he had a "sophmore slump"?
all dont see why all u guys think Kirk Hinrich will possibly slump...he had pretty good rookie year, and will probably be one of the first options in the bulls offense. He scored like 35 points last nite...i think it was...i know its preseason but still!
