Yao pretty much missed all the summer-league and pre-season games in his first year. On the other hand, Bogut has benefited from NCAA, summer-league and pre-season games.
It's a lot like people who are waiting for the next 0-16 team in football. Since Yao has been the only #1 pick not to score in his first game, some are waiting for the next #1 pick to go scoreless in his first game. I don't remember enough names in this forum to know whether DeAleck is a Yao basher or not, but not knowing helped me see why someone may start a thread like this. I certainly didn't take it to mean he thought Bogut is or would be a better player than Yao. Disregard all this if DeAleck is a consistent Yao basher, though.
Bogut had a decent game. But not that great. TJ Ford had as many rebounds as him...heck, he only rebounded 1 other teammate on the starting five. And he missed a wide-open alley-oop dunk. That said, he clearly has some decent athleticism and should develop nicely.
Yao is the only #1 bigman pick that averaged over 18 and 8 last year in limited minutes and is still considered to be underachieving.
if u really want to look at it. experience wise this is yao's rookie year since he didn't have HS or college ball and ball in china was weak.
