The players drafted from 2020 to 2022 are still young and have plenty of time to turn things around if their career hasn’t started off well. So I’m asking you to go out a limb: which player drafted in that span are you willing to 100% take it to the bank say is a bust? You have to be willing to eat your words if you’re wrong and that player turns it around. I’m not including 2023 because it seems wrong to call a player a bust before they’ve played a single regular season game.
I guess the most obvious answer to this James Wiseman. He already busted for the Warriors, he was terrible in a few injury plagued seasons for them and they didn’t even get a lot by trading him away. Especially considering they could have had LaMelo Ball. He could turn it around in Detroit, but it’s not been a good start for him.
Which player are you 100% certain is a bust already? And are you willing to eat crow if you’re wrong?
Yeah I’d agree with most of these except Zaire. I think he’s definitely got the potential to have a good season this year with both Adams and Clarke out.
He had a really bad year last year, huge sophomore slump and even looked bad in the G. Alot of Grizz fans were attributing that to him growing over the offseason of his rookie year, because he originally came in looking pretty promising and even playing quality playoff minutes. Eventually he fell out of the rotation with guys like Roddy taking his minutes, but based on his preseason play he looks like he might have put it back together (emphasis on the might, as we all know how much substance preseason can hold).
I have never gotten off the Ziaire believer train, I still have hope he can be valuable to us and be that long term 3 we need, but that could be my copium based on how nothing else has worked out for us the last 12 months