I have a hard time saying someone is a bust due to injuries. He was a good NBA player when healthy.I went with Oden based on who was picked at #2. Bennett stunk, but so did much of the 2013 lottery.
The best player in the NBA currently was in that draft. It was a really poorly evaluated draft.I don’t count Oden as a bust because it was injuries that derailed him. The other guys were just not good. I think Keene Brown is the biggest on the list. Bennet was in a really weak draft.
Re draft the Top 15 picks and it makes that draft look a lot less weak.
I have a hard time saying someone is a bust due to injuries. He was a good NBA player when healthy.
Greg Oden was the most obvious one of all time.
1. He was never able to be dominant on offense even when "healthy" in college.
2. He ran like he had the knees of a 95 year old man and was already struggling with injuries.
3. The #2 pick was probably the most obvious can't-miss pick since LeBron James.
I absolutely could not believe that any team would consider using a #1 pick on him when Durant was out there. It was absolute insanity that a lot of people just somehow went along with.
Wasn't he hurt in college also? Harder to blame injuries when he already has the problem and people take him anyhow.Wasn't part of the logic for taking Oden "7-footers don't grow on trees!" type of thing? Maybe I'm mis-remembering, I'm not a big draft-history expert.