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Who is the biggest bust ever??

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Drew_Le, Jul 13, 2001.

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  1. Drew_Le

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    my vote would be a tie between Kelvin Cato and Derrick Coleman. wat's urs?

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    Dolly Parton.

    Oh wait, did you say is or has?

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    Are you kidding? Derrick Coleman has averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds for his career. Kelvin Cato was the 15th pick in the draft. Neither one of them are close to being the biggest busts of all time. Probably the biggest bust was Pervis Ellison, although Chris Washburn and Benoit Benjamin could have legit cases as well. And how about Sam Bowie going ahead of MJ?

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    In terms of expectations from the rockets it would be pippen for now, Pippen was expected to bring us to the campionship. If cato doesn't change than cato, even though he is paid big money I don't think the rockets ever expected him to be a 20 and 10 guy just hopefully a 12-15pt and 8-10rb player. Biggest bust ever in NBA is Michael Olowokandi in terms of expectations from a 1st pick. He has yet to average double figures.

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    To be fair Sam Bowie would have been good but his knees just couldn't take it. Same goes for Ralph Sampson and Danny Manning

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    I'd have to go with Benoit Benjamin. What a huge nosedive that guy took.

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    How about Mirscan Turkeeeeeey!

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    How about 18th pick? Get a list of the 18th picks over the history of the draft... it isn't pretty.



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    Anybody remember Doug Smith, the F from Mizzou who was drafted by Dallas who supposed to revolutionize the game? (He was going to be the type of highly-skilled, athletic big man that KG and CWebb are)

    Smith and our own beloved John Turner have to rank as two of the biggest all-time busts?

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    Harold Miner was a pretty big bust. No defense, sporadic offense, but a few nice dunks made him "the next Michael Jordan." Hard to believe that the Heat picked him over Latrell Sprewell in 92.

    Also, whatever happened to Shawn Respert and Ed O'Bannon? They were both top 10 picks in 95, and I'm not sure if they're even in the league anymore.

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    Man when Steve Patterson/Charlie Thomas ran this team it was the worst sports franchise in the history of sports. You guys think Donald Sterling was bad with the Clippers? We should have just traded our draft picks away each year because the guys we were drafting didn't even deserve to be in the NBA. Les Alexander buying the team from that idiot Thomas was one of the greatest things to ever happen to Houston.

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    Steve Patterson was still around to draft Sam Cassell, after he drafted Robert Horry the year before (quite possibly our best draft picks ever, from the low 1st round). I don't think Rudy had that much say in those days either. Hmm...was it really Patterson all along?


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    What about Randy White ? AKA Karl junior. Didn't Dallas draft him also ?

    As for Manning, he's been a solid pro. I really liked his game.



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    I would have to say Sam Bowie. He was drafted between Dream and Jordan. Expectations were very high.

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    Speaking of busts anybody see the numbers Loren Woods put up the other night against the Milwalkee Bucks summer league team. 24 pts, 9 boards and 6 tap outs. And he was the 46th pick in this years draft. Amazing.

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    Scottie QUitten,

    So much promise, what a friggin bust

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    My vote for biggest bust must go to HeyPartner for conceding a bet before it was decided.

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