Dude had a statline of like 0 rebs 0 assists 0% fg, 1 pt and like 0.3 PER after 6 games in one of the weakest eastern conferences ever. I'm pretty sure you give Thabeet, Kandi, Darko and Kwame 6 games they'll get at least 1 reb.
I'm going to play Swoly-D and say that technically Len bias is not an answer to a thread asking "worst #1 pick ever" since he was a #3 pick. Plus even if we are asking the broader "biggest bust ever" question then Jay Williams as a #2 pick probably out ranks Bias
So what, it's a really small sample size. Guys like you and OP are textbook examples for horrible GMs that don't have patience and let guys go too soon. Remember Billups getting traded after half a season? How did he pan out... Not saying I think Bennett will be good, I'm very sceptical, but judging a player and labelling him bust after that short time period is bogus.
I had no idea who this dude was from the picture. I forgot that fast. I guess you know you suck when you forget a guy was the #1 pick less than 6 months later.
He's a number 1 pick for crying out loud. If you knew he would be this bad would you still pick him at number 1? Or would you pick somebody else? By your definition though, we still gotta wait until he retires before we can call him a bust because he might turn it up 10 years from now, and then we'll be known as the guys who "judged him too soon". Being a number 1 pick has certain expectations on it, after 20 games he's averaging 2 pts, 2 rebs on 0.277 FG% in 10 mins of action. And he was supposed to be "NBA Ready", in contrast stone-hands Kwame Brown had 4.5 pts and 3 rebs despite being a year younger and having no discernible basketball skills as a rookie. Maybe your definition of bust is different, but if you had the number 1 pick and the guy you picked doesn't look like he belonged in the league then he's a bust. He's not exactly a raw prospect with potential either, the Cavs FO touted him as the most polished dude in the draft. Even if he becomes the next ZBO down the line then he will still be a bust for the Cavs because they won't be the guys who profit off him, and they ended up wasting time and resources waiting for him to develop only for another team to pay for his services.
probably need to wait more than 30 games too decide. I would point out every rookie this year is pretty bad (MCW the exception).
And virtually everybody else from that class who is getting significant minutes is miles better than Bennett, which says a lot (about him). ETA: This class got a really bad rap, but lots of those guys are legitimately contributing already. Oladipo, Trey Burke, Giannis, McLemore, Steven Adams... I think they have potential to develop into very good players. I think Giannis could be something special.
No one apart from him is averaging 2 pts and 2 rebs per game in 10 mins of action on 23% FG though. That makes him a bust in my book because he's performing the worst in his draft class despite being picked first. Maybe he can blow up next season, but honestly guys like Oladipo or that dude from Greece (Otankapupo or whatever) has a higher chance of doing that than Bennett because he's a tweener and out of shape.
Call me crazy.. think he ends up OK. Probably not on the Cavs. Dude somehow went #1, had a terrible medical offseason, and is still a teenager.
Well if he blows up away from the Cavs that makes it a double bust IMHO, not only did they waste a number 1 pick, that dude came back to bite them. This is why I still think guys like ZBO were busts for the trail blazers, they invested a high pick on him and another team reaped the return on their investment.
Were guys like T-Mac and Billups a bust? Just because their original teams didn't keep them doesn't mean they were busts. Their team just should have been smarter and kept them.
I'm not understanding your definition of bust anymore. How is he a bust if he turned out to be the next ZBo. That just means he's a late bloomer and Cavs either sucks at developing players or didn't have the patience to keep a play with potential.
