This video really shows how influential and unique Dirk was. So many teams whiffed on European players in the hope that they would even be half the player that Dirk was.
Even at this point, you can tell that if you gave him that jumpshot he had in college you more or less have a pretty good player. But he never got to build on that foundation. It's a shame that he tried to play through it and didn't shut it down from day 1 when he started feeling that shoulder pain. But you live and learn. And I don't think he'll be out of the league anytime soon. When he's healthy, he's definitely an NBA player.
I know Kwame has basically become synonymous with bust, but the Wizards spot should really go to Jan Vesely. He was a #6 pick and had absolutely no business being in the NBA.
@@ashkechum101 in ‘03, his third year in the league, where he played the most minutes in his career, he had career high averages of 10.9 points and 7.4 rebounds. Never got in double digits afterwards.
I'd disagree that Fultz is only marginally better in Orlando. While certainly not looking like a #1 overall pick, he looks like he will absolutely have a place in the NBA for at least several more years, unlike the way he looked in Philly. Easy oversight though since there is not a soul watching Orlando games lmao
Shout out to Greg Odin. Dude looked 55 years old in college. Had a bad feeling he wouldn’t work out in the NBA. Add to that the fact that it was a coin flip between picking him or KD first overall. I think there was even a billboard in Portland by the arena that said something like “Honk Once for Odin or Twice for KD.”
Funny enough Wayne Yates was my basketball and P.E coach years ago at Northwood high school. Great man told us stories about his time in the NBA. He was a great guy and great coach just not that great of a player.
@@arch8748 nobody ever thought he was better than Michael Jordan the blazers just already had a player like mj so they didn't need another premeiter player.
@Fries While LaRue Martin was drafted just ahead of HoFer Bob McAdoo, and Bowie was leaps and bounds ahead of him as a player, the revolution that MJ proceeded to have on the sport and the culture surrounding it (whether you like him as a player, owner, human or not) vastly outshines anything Bowie could have produced. Martin was drafted before an all-timer. Bowie was drafted before the hoops equivalent of Jesus. That reason alone is why Bowie is forever staying where he is as the worst draft pick Portland ever made, ability be damned. Another victim of the Blazers big man curse too…
Jonny Flynn was a solid choice for the Wolves' biggest bust, but it's hard to just ignore Ndudi Ebi in this discussion. They basically picked that bust because he "looked good" in a practice against LeBron before the draft (No offense to Allen Iverson).
Markelle Fultz was the consensus #1 pick coming into the 2017 draft. Before the season nobody knew him bc he was overshadowed by guys like Lonzo and Tatum, but as the college season went on, it became obvious that Fultz was going to be the #1 pick Edit: It was the 2017 draft not 2016
@@akeme25 Because the Celtics knew Philly wanted Fultz not Tatum and Lakers wanted Lonzo. So they just slide to the #3 spot, got the guy who they were always going to get and got another pick in return.
0:13 DeMar Johnson - literally a car crash 🚗 0:41 Eric Montross - never found his way 🔻 1:06 Dennis Hopson - The Ohio State University 🥜 1:33 Adam Morrison - Rookie and then Sucked 2:00 Jay Williams - Color Commentator 🔊 2:32 Anthony Bennet - did NOTHING well 🙈 3:02 Bill Garnett - not Kevin Garnett 😑 3:33 Nikoloz ..... - 626 shots, 507 points 😂 4:16 Darko Milotic - 152 points 174 shots 🤣 4:39 Chris Washburn - Drugged Out 🤤😵💫 5:07 Pat Riley - just 1 season 5:42 Jonathan Bender - injured 🤕 6:13 (McCandy) Olwokandi - lazy ☝ 6:46 The Laker's Wayne Yates - 72 Points, 105 Shots 🐣 7:16 Hasheem Thabeet - Shame on the Grizzlies 🤷♂ 7:47 Michael Beasley - potential that didn't develop 8:20 The Sad Story of Robert Traylor - Traded as part of the Dirk Nowitzki trade 🥪 8:47 Johnny Flynn - could have picked Steph Curry instead 9:09 Austin Rivers - not terrible, bench guy 9:34 Kevin Knox - bad at everything 10:05 Sene - tall guy that let down expectations 🤧 10:34 Mario Hezonja - (really?) athleticism that got lost on the court 11:02 Markelle Fultz - Trust The Process, NOT 🥱 11:32 Dragen Bender - F 🥱 12:01 Sam Bowie - picked ahead of Michael Jordan 😯 12:37 Thomas Robinson - he played all over the league 🎒 13:04 Alfrederick Hughes - 1 season 🦆 13:30 Rafael Arajuo (Arroyo) - failed expectations 13:59 Dante Exum - hustle player off the bench, currently playing overseas 👋 🛫🌊🛬 14:32 Kwame Brown - solid defense, highly overvalued going in the 1st round 🐙
I met Johnny Flynn when he was in high school. My schools basketball team lost to his in the NYS semi finals. He was signing cards of himself after and said “remember me, I’m going to be famous one day”. He was a baller. I thought he would make it work in the pros
Dude with Sam Bowie it’s not even just that he was picked ahead of Jordan. He was picked ahead of Jordan, Barkley, Stockton, Sam Perkins, Kevin Willis dude holy shit. Yeah hindsight is 20/20 but damn
@@romanramirez7847 Drexler and Olajuwon is a crazy thought from 84 till whenever they were to split from one another via free agency when that opens in the 90s.
All these players became BUSTS because Tom Brady Didn’t Will them enough and Didn’t send inspiration text Messages thru out their professional Career!!!
Sacramento Kings: Georgios Papagiannis. I know he was only 13th, 14th pick, but holy crap was he awful. He wasn't even considered in most mock drafts, in the some that he was, he was a late second round pick. He lasted one season, and now he's back in Europe, where he BARELY PLAYS, which is incredible for a guy drafted in the lottery.
Darko might’ve been the biggest draft bust ever.. he had no pressure on him and couldn’t acclimate himself on an already championship Piston team.. he had no talent at all.. I was a 12 year old at the time.. I remember it distinctly
Tractor Traylor was a bust for sure and the Dirk trade makes it look even worse. But purely as players I'd put Joe Alexander and Yi Jianlian as bigger Milwaukee busts than him.
This video reminded me that since there's 82 games in a season, it's really easy to make a highlight reel of yourself if you score a basket or two a game.
Wow, I didn't know Dennis Hopson was Adam Morrison before Adam Morrison. I coined the term "Adam Morrisoned" as "A draft bust wins a championship as a seldom used reserve on another team" since he won 2 rings clapping on Kobe. I used the term for guys like David Carr (2011 Giants) and Blaine Gabbert (2020 Bucs)
I remember Thomas Robinson from NBA 2K13. Constantly being praised by the commentators during the rookie game. Also he has the same name as the guy in _To Kill a Mockingbird_
I was watching that draft with some friends. One commentator questioned whether Robinson had any elite skills and I said "busting up chifferobes". Nobody got the reference lol
The Traylor pick was a catastrophe for the Bucks, but the Nowitzki angle is more hindsight hype than reality. The entire point of that trade was to ensure that both the Mavericks and Bucks got the player they really wanted. If the trade hadn't been made, Dallas would have just drafted Nowitzki straight up at 6, and that would have been the end of it.
Beasley has always shocked me with how he didn't amount to more. I honestly think he just didn't care that much. He got the NBA spot and was completely content with just making the roster.
I think some players that got drafted in the NBA got already content on just making a roster and having a big paycheck (relatively to most people that aren't on the NBA) so they just stuck in mediocrity or being average.
I think you got the Fultz take wrong, he was the leading scorer in college basketball as a freshmen and he had a disgusting skillset. He legitimately looked like a 6’5 Damian Lillard/Harden hybrid with a + wingspan, but people didn’t hear much about him cause his team was shit, they missed the tournament, and the Lavar Ball circus dominated the draft news cycle The way poor coaching/trainer decisions and injuries have completely deleted his jumpshot is an absolute shame for all fans of basketball, he was special
@Raymond Sims … dumb reply. Name 1 concrete reason that he wasn’t an elite prospect? Forgetting how to shoot is like being struck by lightning, there was 0 indication that he would be anything but great
@Raymond Sims im arguing that your “hunch at the time” was total BS and until the most unpredictable meltdown in draft history happened he was going to be an awesome player. There was nothing wrong with his shot in college (it was excellent from all over) and it changed drastically once he entered the league cause of injury and bad coaching
@Raymond Sims he is a bust. But that’s like saying len bias was a bust cause he died before playing any games. Saying you were right about him is like saying you’re right about a dice roll. Nobody cares if you were right on a complete guess, and since you have no reasons about why you thought that clearly it was just a random hunch
really shows how solid the Heat have been at drafting players. Michael Beasley was pretty fuckin good man if he's your biggest bust as an organization you're doing pretty well
Update: Fultz is still made of glass but when he plays he’s good Dante Exum is back! He’s been giving Dallas solid minutes and I’m rooting for him I always figured there was a good player in there somewhere Knox is on the Pistons who are basically the last stop on the train out of the league. He’s actually putting up ok stats. at least he shot 40% for the season last year Dragan Bender is nowhere to be found
Sam Bowie was bad for yet another reason. Not only did they pass on Jordan, but even if people argue "they didn't need a guard" Charles Barkley went 3 picks later.
Ahhhhh yes Micheal Beasley was the biggest never could figure it out player. And I kept telling people if Beasley could figure it out he'd be a superstar but ended up as a journey man bench player
Yeah no, the Sam Bowie/MJ thing is 100% hindsight. MJ was a great college player, but tons of guys are great college players and lots of them become busts in the pros. No one at the time expected him to get even close to GOAT status, and anyone who says they did is lying. If you told people then that a guy from the '84 draft would become the GOAT, they would've said it would be Olajuwon, not Jordan. And the Blazers didn't just have Drexler. They also had Jim Paxson, who was 27 at the time and coming off back to back All-Star selections. If they picked MJ they would've had to play three guard (or even four guard) lineups to give everyone adequate minutes, and that's not really a thing teams were doing a lot back then. The consensus at the time was that the Blazers were a center away from being a title contender. If they pick MJ, it almost certainly ends with them dangling either him or Drexler as trade bait to get a big man. Instead they tried to get one with their draft pick. It just didn't work out.
You're right about the Blazers situation at the time, but you're ignoring Bowie's huge injury risks and the many people who saw Jordan's potential. Peter Vescey, who was one of the biggest NBA journalists at the time said that MJ was "Dr. J with a jump shot".
It’s not really hindsight. MJ was a superstar in college and was clearly going to be huge in the NBA. Bowie was good, but MJ was just way better overall already.
@vaclevsta There may well have been individual analysts who saw MJ as a transcendent superstar in waiting, but that was nowhere near an industry consensus at the time. He was not treated as god's gift to basketball like LeBron was in '03. MJ might not even make a top 20 of the most hyped draft prospects. Olajuwon was the guy everyone wanted in '84. Patrick Ewing got more hype the following year. So did David Robinson. So did Shaq. So did Tim Duncan. So did LeBron. Hell, even a guy like Anthony Davis arguably had more buzz going into his draft than MJ had in '84. Notice a common thread in that list of names, aside from LeBron? They're all big men. Elite centers were the most prized possession in the sport, and from the NBA's inception through the mid-80s virtually every team that won a title had a dominant big man. Centers were so prioritized that the Rockets already had an elite big in Ralph Sampson and they still took Olajuwon without a second thought anyway. It wasn't until MJ's Bulls came along (and also the Bad Boys Pistons to a lesser extent) that this post > perimeter conventional wisdom was seriously challenged. IMO, oddly enough, people who ding the Blazers for taking Bowie over MJ do MJ's legacy a disservice. This surface-level outcome-based analysis doesn't account for how teams thought at the time, and just how much MJ did to change the game.
I was stationed in Fort Riley, KS from 07 to 09, but never attended a K-State game. So while I didn't fully drink the Kool-Aid, I did take sips of it and guilty of it, just like you
Bucks have made so many terrible draft picks over the last 20 years, with the exception of Giannis. Top 10 picks that never worked out are Jabari Parker (over Embiid), Thon Maker, Joe Alexander, Yi Jianlian. Also trading away Dirk on draft day, and drafting Bogut over CP3. I guess Giannis makes up for all of that though.
You have to understand with Bogut that in 2005, Shaq/Duncan had won 6 of the previous 7 Finals MVP's and it was still a very defense-oriented league. Bogut seemed like a lock to become a great defensive big man [which he did] and he at least had raw talent offensively. It was a defensible pick at the time. Nobody knew that the league would shift so drastically towards perimeter offense or that Chris Paul would be playing at a superstar level at age 36.
@@dusk6159 A skinnier less physical Giannis would be nowhere near the MVP level player he is today, but would still be a good NBA player because of his athleticism, motor, wingspan and ability to handle/see the floor. That's more than you can say about Parker, Maker, Alexander or Yi.
2:33 every time Anthony Bennett makes a shot three-point or otherwise, why does the damn ball constantly hit the front of the rim. Seriously! Look at his attempts at shooting in the highlights.
Was at first surprised not to see raptors legend Andrea Bargnani, but he did have a better career than that other scrub. I didn’t think that would be possible
I’m curious did you rush this video or actually do some research for this video? How are you going to pick Jay Williams for the Bulls over Marcus Fizer or Tyrus Thomas? 🤔🤔🤦♂️
Barry love the video but how can you use points vs. Shots attempted as a metric for player performance when only 3 players have ever finished their career with more or just as many points as shits attempted ( Kareem, Ray Allen, Bird)
No contest - Olowokandi was the #1 pick, and it's downright embarrassing to whiff so badly in that slot. It still sucks to get absolutely nothing out of a #12 pick, but there's nowhere near the same level of expectation.
@@vaclevsta Well yeah, obviously Olowokandi was the worst pick we've ever made in a draft where Dirk, VC, and The Truth were available. But the fact that Danny Granger was somehow available when we selected Korolev and the fact that Korolev scored a combined 39 points over his only 2 seasons in his career and Granger went on to be an integral part of the PG era Pacers and had the potential to be one of the best scorers we've ever seen if not for his knee problems is enough to put Korolev in contention for me. If MPJ goes absolutely nuclear on the league in the next few years I'll put Jerome Robinson in contention for this one too, I'm still fuckin furious that we passed on MPJ for a guy we traded 2 seasons into his career because he averaged like 4 points a game for us
With all due respect to the poor decision to draft Sam Bowie, Greg Oden was Portland’s biggest bust pick. I think the jury is still out on whether Zion will be the Pelicans biggest bust or not. For all the hype, he really hasn’t done a lot for that team. And I’m just glad that Chicago had a bigger bust than Marcus Fizer. I really wanted to see that dude do well as a pro, but sadly…
I will not accept this slander of Jonny flyn. he had a hip injury after his rookie year that at his size made it difficult to ever be a valuable nba player. To this day you cannot find him. No, he shouldn’t have been taken before curry but I think he would’ve had an above average nba career as an offensive talent.
It’s hard to call Anthony Bennett a bust when he wasn’t in the lottery for most mock drafts, dude was a troll pick. By definition he’s a major bust but he wasn’t even supposed to be picked that high by anyone
He was still a number one pick just cause you’re alright as a back up on a horrible team doesn’t mean you’re not a bust people really ride fultz nuts it’s ridiculous he’s a bust get over it
@@Slickgary007 okay Fultz is as bad as a player as Anthony Bennett both are busts so doesn’t matter hey guess what guess Lebron is a bust cause he never got 6 rings like Jordan and at that Jordan is a bust cause he didn’t get as many rings as Bill Russel nor did he score 100 points like Wilt might as well make everyone one a bust since it’s used so loosely
This video really shows how influential and unique Dirk was. So many teams whiffed on European players in the hope that they would even be half the player that Dirk was.
Now they’re doing it again cus of Luka and Giannis, I wish it was Americans only again
The Bucks whiffed trading Dirk
@@Imrightyourwrong at least try and hide your racism
@@Imrightyourwrong why tf did 5 people like this? So basically you don't wanna see European players shine because... They're from Europe?
@@cursedassyeet yeah very weird comment lol
Hezonja is a bust but him blocking Bron and Dunking on Giannis is legendary.
Ikr him stepping over Giannis had me dying
Markelle Fultz was the consensus #1 pick because his great play at Washington University. Injuries aside, he was the guy, not just potential.
100% agree. Once a commentator said that Fultz, robbed of his biggest strength - the pull up jumper - was just a 6'3 Ben Simmons.
Even at this point, you can tell that if you gave him that jumpshot he had in college you more or less have a pretty good player. But he never got to build on that foundation. It's a shame that he tried to play through it and didn't shut it down from day 1 when he started feeling that shoulder pain. But you live and learn. And I don't think he'll be out of the league anytime soon. When he's healthy, he's definitely an NBA player.
@@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza Fultz is a great playmaker and defender, and his pull up game was amazing
@@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza Fultz is a great playmaker and defender, and his pull up game was amazing
And he isn’t a bust either
I know Kwame has basically become synonymous with bust, but the Wizards spot should really go to Jan Vesely. He was a #6 pick and had absolutely no business being in the NBA.
This!! Kwame eventually averaged 10 pts and 10 rebounds. Vesely never even approached that
@@ashkechum101 in ‘03, his third year in the league, where he played the most minutes in his career, he had career high averages of 10.9 points and 7.4 rebounds. Never got in double digits afterwards.
I'd disagree that Fultz is only marginally better in Orlando. While certainly not looking like a #1 overall pick, he looks like he will absolutely have a place in the NBA for at least several more years, unlike the way he looked in Philly. Easy oversight though since there is not a soul watching Orlando games lmao
Him, Cole Anthony, SUGGS? If they can afford a full medical team they got Jon Isaac. Bruh Orlando's lit.
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Shout out to Greg Odin. Dude looked 55 years old in college. Had a bad feeling he wouldn’t work out in the NBA. Add to that the fact that it was a coin flip between picking him or KD first overall. I think there was even a billboard in Portland by the arena that said something like “Honk Once for Odin or Twice for KD.”
"With the 1st Pick in the 2013 NBA draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers select...Anthony Bennett"
*"WOAH!"* 😂
Fellow 2K 14 player I see.
@@gamerep2297 Yeah👌🏾
I love how that even made it to 2K 😂😂😂
Funny enough Wayne Yates was my basketball and P.E coach years ago at Northwood high school. Great man told us stories about his time in the NBA. He was a great guy and great coach just not that great of a player.
I mean I’d argue to make the NBA he was a great player..pretty cool my PE coach in HS was an ex nhler so floor hockey days were lit
When you compare him to only nba players, no he’s not a great player, any one else… he’s a superstar
Poor Sam Bowie. Only ever remembered for going before Jordan. That's a rough thing to live with.
No the fuck it isnt, you can say 'I went before jordan in the nba draft', if they dont know about your career they'll think you're amazing
Just before Jordan and just after Hakeem. What a tough spot lol.
It also shows just how great Hakeem was because nobody ever gives the Rockets shit for drafting him 1st that year.
@@arch8748 nobody ever thought he was better than Michael Jordan the blazers just already had a player like mj so they didn't need another premeiter player.
@Fries While LaRue Martin was drafted just ahead of HoFer Bob McAdoo, and Bowie was leaps and bounds ahead of him as a player, the revolution that MJ proceeded to have on the sport and the culture surrounding it (whether you like him as a player, owner, human or not) vastly outshines anything Bowie could have produced. Martin was drafted before an all-timer. Bowie was drafted before the hoops equivalent of Jesus. That reason alone is why Bowie is forever staying where he is as the worst draft pick Portland ever made, ability be damned. Another victim of the Blazers big man curse too…
I'll always remember when Knox dunked on Ben Simmons (Depressed Australian Michael Carter-Williams). Good times
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By far the best Ben Simmons description I’ve ever heard lmaoo
just remember that kwame brown and kobe once combined to score 84 points
How many points did Kwame score?
@@sastryvnk4402 83
Bro, your comedic skill are starting to go next level. Even for topics I couldn’t give a crap about, I’m always glad I clicked on it.
Mr.Mcockiner, you are in big trouble.
What
Nice try, Tom Brady.
Jonny Flynn was a solid choice for the Wolves' biggest bust, but it's hard to just ignore Ndudi Ebi in this discussion. They basically picked that bust because he "looked good" in a practice against LeBron before the draft (No offense to Allen Iverson).
Markelle Fultz was the consensus #1 pick coming into the 2017 draft. Before the season nobody knew him bc he was overshadowed by guys like Lonzo and Tatum, but as the college season went on, it became obvious that Fultz was going to be the #1 pick
Edit: It was the 2017 draft not 2016
Glad that Danny Ainge had the foresight to trade Boston’s #1 pick to Philly and ended up with Tatum.
Nobody got Tatum top 3. Look at the mock drafts. They thought Boston was taking Josh Jackson or Fox.
@@thisisnotmyname8766 But my question is, why didn’t the Celtics just use their number 1 pick to draft Tatum?
@@akeme25 Because the Celtics knew Philly wanted Fultz not Tatum and Lakers wanted Lonzo. So they just slide to the #3 spot, got the guy who they were always going to get and got another pick in return.
@@thisisnotmyname8766 Oh yeah the other pick, now it makes sense
You deserve so many more subs, Barry, and I'm really glad to see your channel growing the way it is.
0:13 DeMar Johnson - literally a car crash 🚗
0:41 Eric Montross - never found his way 🔻
1:06 Dennis Hopson - The Ohio State University 🥜
1:33 Adam Morrison - Rookie and then Sucked
2:00 Jay Williams - Color Commentator 🔊
2:32 Anthony Bennet - did NOTHING well 🙈
3:02 Bill Garnett - not Kevin Garnett 😑
3:33 Nikoloz ..... - 626 shots, 507 points 😂
4:16 Darko Milotic - 152 points 174 shots 🤣
4:39 Chris Washburn - Drugged Out 🤤😵💫
5:07 Pat Riley - just 1 season
5:42 Jonathan Bender - injured 🤕
6:13 (McCandy) Olwokandi - lazy ☝
6:46 The Laker's Wayne Yates - 72 Points, 105 Shots 🐣
7:16 Hasheem Thabeet - Shame on the Grizzlies 🤷♂
7:47 Michael Beasley - potential that didn't develop
8:20 The Sad Story of Robert Traylor - Traded as part of the Dirk Nowitzki trade 🥪
8:47 Johnny Flynn - could have picked Steph Curry instead
9:09 Austin Rivers - not terrible, bench guy
9:34 Kevin Knox - bad at everything
10:05 Sene - tall guy that let down expectations 🤧
10:34 Mario Hezonja - (really?) athleticism that got lost on the court
11:02 Markelle Fultz - Trust The Process, NOT 🥱
11:32 Dragen Bender - F 🥱
12:01 Sam Bowie - picked ahead of Michael Jordan 😯
12:37 Thomas Robinson - he played all over the league 🎒
13:04 Alfrederick Hughes - 1 season 🦆
13:30 Rafael Arajuo (Arroyo) - failed expectations
13:59 Dante Exum - hustle player off the bench, currently playing overseas 👋 🛫🌊🛬
14:32 Kwame Brown - solid defense, highly overvalued going in the 1st round 🐙
you still editing it lol, you should include the draft pick
Praise be to the time stamp guy, providing convenience with every time stamp
these tagline emoji combinations are a nice touch
You ruined the whole point of the video... Just put the teams not the players...
@@thouzer47.58 that's why you don't read comments before you finish the video
I met Johnny Flynn when he was in high school. My schools basketball team lost to his in the NYS semi finals. He was signing cards of himself after and said “remember me, I’m going to be famous one day”. He was a baller. I thought he would make it work in the pros
Dude with Sam Bowie it’s not even just that he was picked ahead of Jordan. He was picked ahead of Jordan, Barkley, Stockton, Sam Perkins, Kevin Willis dude holy shit. Yeah hindsight is 20/20 but damn
That’s already horrible and dumb, but imagine if Bowie had been picked by the Rockets instead of Hakeem. That would have been an absolute travesty.
@@romanramirez7847 Drexler and Olajuwon is a crazy thought from 84 till whenever they were to split from one another via free agency when that opens in the 90s.
All these players became BUSTS because Tom Brady Didn’t Will them enough and Didn’t send inspiration text Messages thru out their professional Career!!!
Honestly Len Bias was a huge bust it set back the Celtics for years
My favorite yt channel. Excited to see more NBA content.
Sacramento Kings: Georgios Papagiannis. I know he was only 13th, 14th pick, but holy crap was he awful. He wasn't even considered in most mock drafts, in the some that he was, he was a late second round pick. He lasted one season, and now he's back in Europe, where he BARELY PLAYS, which is incredible for a guy drafted in the lottery.
Glad to see Barry pumpin out the videos
We got it this time!!! Thanks Barry! You the real deal (no offense to Evander Holyfield)
Darko might’ve been the biggest draft bust ever.. he had no pressure on him and couldn’t acclimate himself on an already championship Piston team.. he had no talent at all.. I was a 12 year old at the time.. I remember it distinctly
Remember when Dante Exum was your "rival" in 2K15? Even they thought he would be something special.
Jordan wasn’t the Majority owner of the bobcats until 2010. Did he have much say on picking Adam Morrison?
Nope but let’s blame MJ 😂
Tractor Traylor was a bust for sure and the Dirk trade makes it look even worse. But purely as players I'd put Joe Alexander and Yi Jianlian as bigger Milwaukee busts than him.
This video reminded me that since there's 82 games in a season, it's really easy to make a highlight reel of yourself if you score a basket or two a game.
Sam Bowie also tricked The Blazzers when they asked him if he was healthy enough to play in the NBA and Sam said he was. Mad man indeed.
I mean what else was he supposed to say? No and lose out on millions of dollars?
1:08 can we talk about how incredibly fire that Nets jersey was?
Totally agree with your Blazers section, Barry. I will now resume punching myself in the taint till I pass out.
Wow, I didn't know Dennis Hopson was Adam Morrison before Adam Morrison. I coined the term "Adam Morrisoned" as "A draft bust wins a championship as a seldom used reserve on another team" since he won 2 rings clapping on Kobe. I used the term for guys like David Carr (2011 Giants) and Blaine Gabbert (2020 Bucs)
I remember Thomas Robinson from NBA 2K13. Constantly being praised by the commentators during the rookie game.
Also he has the same name as the guy in _To Kill a Mockingbird_
I was watching that draft with some friends. One commentator questioned whether Robinson had any elite skills and I said "busting up chifferobes". Nobody got the reference lol
I'm surprised you didn't mention players that each of these teams could've had instead of the guy they drafted
The Traylor pick was a catastrophe for the Bucks, but the Nowitzki angle is more hindsight hype than reality. The entire point of that trade was to ensure that both the Mavericks and Bucks got the player they really wanted. If the trade hadn't been made, Dallas would have just drafted Nowitzki straight up at 6, and that would have been the end of it.
Beasley has always shocked me with how he didn't amount to more. I honestly think he just didn't care that much. He got the NBA spot and was completely content with just making the roster.
Maybe you're right. Whatever his problem was, it was in his head not his body, that's for sure. Dude was beast, crazy talented.
He was a beast in the NCAA. Definitely had him pegged to be a star too
I think some players that got drafted in the NBA got already content on just making a roster and having a big paycheck (relatively to most people that aren't on the NBA) so they just stuck in mediocrity or being average.
Kings could be a list of like 30 people. Has to be bagley though. Everyone in the world besides the kings knew luka would be a star
@Fries being ok on the worst team in the league isn’t really an accomplishment
I think you got the Fultz take wrong, he was the leading scorer in college basketball as a freshmen and he had a disgusting skillset. He legitimately looked like a 6’5 Damian Lillard/Harden hybrid with a + wingspan, but people didn’t hear much about him cause his team was shit, they missed the tournament, and the Lavar Ball circus dominated the draft news cycle
The way poor coaching/trainer decisions and injuries have completely deleted his jumpshot is an absolute shame for all fans of basketball, he was special
@Raymond Sims … dumb reply. Name 1 concrete reason that he wasn’t an elite prospect? Forgetting how to shoot is like being struck by lightning, there was 0 indication that he would be anything but great
@Raymond Sims im arguing that your “hunch at the time” was total BS and until the most unpredictable meltdown in draft history happened he was going to be an awesome player. There was nothing wrong with his shot in college (it was excellent from all over) and it changed drastically once he entered the league cause of injury and bad coaching
@Raymond Sims he is a bust. But that’s like saying len bias was a bust cause he died before playing any games. Saying you were right about him is like saying you’re right about a dice roll. Nobody cares if you were right on a complete guess, and since you have no reasons about why you thought that clearly it was just a random hunch
I can't wait for it any longer. PLEASE GIVE US THE KAWHI LEONARD TRUTHER VIDEO!
As a brazilian, that "Araújo" pronunciation was something else
I blame Carlos Arroyo
Video is finally working
I cried after I couldn't watch this yesterday, finally the tears will stop
Knox forelips kills me 😄 🤣 😂
really shows how solid the Heat have been at drafting players. Michael Beasley was pretty fuckin good man if he's your biggest bust as an organization you're doing pretty well
Update:
Fultz is still made of glass but when he plays he’s good
Dante Exum is back! He’s been giving Dallas solid minutes and I’m rooting for him I always figured there was a good player in there somewhere
Knox is on the Pistons who are basically the last stop on the train out of the league. He’s actually putting up ok stats. at least he shot 40% for the season last year
Dragan Bender is nowhere to be found
Sam Bowie was bad for yet another reason. Not only did they pass on Jordan, but even if people argue "they didn't need a guard" Charles Barkley went 3 picks later.
Bout fucking time Barry, been needing a good mccockiner video for a minute
The name "Washburn" is almost perfect for a Draft bust when you think of it.
Kevin Knox also wore a fortnite suit on draft night 🤣
Ahhhhh yes Micheal Beasley was the biggest never could figure it out player. And I kept telling people if Beasley could figure it out he'd be a superstar but ended up as a journey man bench player
Javaris Crittenton honorable mention for the Lakers. Dude is serving 23 years in prison for murder right now, so...
honestly good on olowokandi for making it to the pros despite only starting at 18, and making 40 mil off of it. ultimate bag secured
Yeah no, the Sam Bowie/MJ thing is 100% hindsight. MJ was a great college player, but tons of guys are great college players and lots of them become busts in the pros. No one at the time expected him to get even close to GOAT status, and anyone who says they did is lying. If you told people then that a guy from the '84 draft would become the GOAT, they would've said it would be Olajuwon, not Jordan.
And the Blazers didn't just have Drexler. They also had Jim Paxson, who was 27 at the time and coming off back to back All-Star selections. If they picked MJ they would've had to play three guard (or even four guard) lineups to give everyone adequate minutes, and that's not really a thing teams were doing a lot back then.
The consensus at the time was that the Blazers were a center away from being a title contender. If they pick MJ, it almost certainly ends with them dangling either him or Drexler as trade bait to get a big man. Instead they tried to get one with their draft pick. It just didn't work out.
Ya And People don't remember how bad LaRue Martin Was
You're right about the Blazers situation at the time, but you're ignoring Bowie's huge injury risks and the many people who saw Jordan's potential. Peter Vescey, who was one of the biggest NBA journalists at the time said that MJ was "Dr. J with a jump shot".
It’s not really hindsight. MJ was a superstar in college and was clearly going to be huge in the NBA. Bowie was good, but MJ was just way better overall already.
@vaclevsta There may well have been individual analysts who saw MJ as a transcendent superstar in waiting, but that was nowhere near an industry consensus at the time. He was not treated as god's gift to basketball like LeBron was in '03. MJ might not even make a top 20 of the most hyped draft prospects. Olajuwon was the guy everyone wanted in '84. Patrick Ewing got more hype the following year. So did David Robinson. So did Shaq. So did Tim Duncan. So did LeBron. Hell, even a guy like Anthony Davis arguably had more buzz going into his draft than MJ had in '84.
Notice a common thread in that list of names, aside from LeBron? They're all big men. Elite centers were the most prized possession in the sport, and from the NBA's inception through the mid-80s virtually every team that won a title had a dominant big man. Centers were so prioritized that the Rockets already had an elite big in Ralph Sampson and they still took Olajuwon without a second thought anyway. It wasn't until MJ's Bulls came along (and also the Bad Boys Pistons to a lesser extent) that this post > perimeter conventional wisdom was seriously challenged.
IMO, oddly enough, people who ding the Blazers for taking Bowie over MJ do MJ's legacy a disservice. This surface-level outcome-based analysis doesn't account for how teams thought at the time, and just how much MJ did to change the game.
Can you talk about the Steelers playoff shortcomings
11:06 Markelle Fultz didn't have a notable college career and was never talked about? How can that be true for the CONSENSUS number 1 pick that year?
Americans speaking Araujo is fucking hilarious uaushahsuahsuhausus greetings from Brazil, don't have pre marital sex
Fultz averaged 23/6/6 in college and you never heard of him? Casual
The Raptors picking Andrea Bargnani #1 overall in 2006 stung the most.
I was stationed in Fort Riley, KS from 07 to 09, but never attended a K-State game. So while I didn't fully drink the Kool-Aid, I did take sips of it and guilty of it, just like you
I can defeat all of them.
-Ron, The Almighty Rat King
9:55 lmaooooooooo
Bucks have made so many terrible draft picks over the last 20 years, with the exception of Giannis. Top 10 picks that never worked out are Jabari Parker (over Embiid), Thon Maker, Joe Alexander, Yi Jianlian. Also trading away Dirk on draft day, and drafting Bogut over CP3. I guess Giannis makes up for all of that though.
You have to understand with Bogut that in 2005, Shaq/Duncan had won 6 of the previous 7 Finals MVP's and it was still a very defense-oriented league. Bogut seemed like a lock to become a great defensive big man [which he did] and he at least had raw talent offensively. It was a defensible pick at the time. Nobody knew that the league would shift so drastically towards perimeter offense or that Chris Paul would be playing at a superstar level at age 36.
Giannis and Embiid couldve become a Dinasty but handsight 20/20 Im extremley sure the Bucks wouldve traded him after the injuries the first years
@@dusk6159 A skinnier less physical Giannis would be nowhere near the MVP level player he is today, but would still be a good NBA player because of his athleticism, motor, wingspan and ability to handle/see the floor. That's more than you can say about Parker, Maker, Alexander or Yi.
Lol people never brought up context when they made those kinds of assumptions 🤦🏾♂️
What background song does Barry use? I hear it all the time and Im dying to know
Best channel on BBall. Fight me.
Man I wish Dragan Bender became a star. “The Dragon” would have been the best nickname ever lol
It’s definitely illegal to be this early for this high quality of a video
bro there's no way you were able to tell Kevin and bill were related without googling it they literally look alike
The Warriors biggest draft bust was trading the rights to Parish and McHale for Joe Barry Carole.
Lmao the shot to knox and bender lmao 🤣
Oh no now Barry gonna get some of that momma home cooking 🤦🏻♂️
As a pistons fan I already knew it would be Darko before clicking the video.
Barry!!! Do some NBA Week Reviews!!!!
2:33 every time Anthony Bennett makes a shot three-point or otherwise, why does the damn ball constantly hit the front of the rim. Seriously! Look at his attempts at shooting in the highlights.
Can you make a video of every teams best ever draft pick? That would be class
Barry uploaded on my birthday
anthony bennett's release on those shots being so slow was really distracting. he was on his way down before the ball was out of his hands
Was at first surprised not to see raptors legend Andrea Bargnani, but he did have a better career than that other scrub. I didn’t think that would be possible
Good pronunciation of Araújo. Barry /s
I’m curious did you rush this video or actually do some research for this video? How are you going to pick Jay Williams for the Bulls over Marcus Fizer or Tyrus Thomas? 🤔🤔🤦♂️
Wow, of ALL the knicks pics in the entirety of their history, I can't believe someone as recent as KEVIN KNOX is considered they're WORST pic ever 🤣😭😭
Never expected to see a guy from this list in my team. Welcome to Partizan, Dante
Barry love the video but how can you use points vs. Shots attempted as a metric for player performance when only 3 players have ever finished their career with more or just as many points as shits attempted ( Kareem, Ray Allen, Bird)
I guess he meant field goals attempted
Moral of this video: Never choose a possibility over a sure thing.
There are no sure things in the NBA draft unfortunately
Well then Giannis would have been drafted in the second round
I’m convinced Barry McCockiner is also Jim Huss. Which is awesome 🤝
Barry could do a whole video on the Sixers 1st round draft busts.
kevin knox went to the same high school i went to, but he was already at kentucky when i was a freshman
1:25 - I wouldn’t say he was bad. He put up decent numbers are decent efficiency.
4:50 That Barry in the background
Might've went with Marvin Williams based on who we should've taken 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
that kevin knox comment was foul 😂
I haven't even watched the video yet and I already know the biggest bust for my Clippers is gonna be either Olowokandi or Yaroslav Korolev
No contest - Olowokandi was the #1 pick, and it's downright embarrassing to whiff so badly in that slot. It still sucks to get absolutely nothing out of a #12 pick, but there's nowhere near the same level of expectation.
@@vaclevsta Well yeah, obviously Olowokandi was the worst pick we've ever made in a draft where Dirk, VC, and The Truth were available. But the fact that Danny Granger was somehow available when we selected Korolev and the fact that Korolev scored a combined 39 points over his only 2 seasons in his career and Granger went on to be an integral part of the PG era Pacers and had the potential to be one of the best scorers we've ever seen if not for his knee problems is enough to put Korolev in contention for me. If MPJ goes absolutely nuclear on the league in the next few years I'll put Jerome Robinson in contention for this one too, I'm still fuckin furious that we passed on MPJ for a guy we traded 2 seasons into his career because he averaged like 4 points a game for us
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With all due respect to the poor decision to draft Sam Bowie, Greg Oden was Portland’s biggest bust pick. I think the jury is still out on whether Zion will be the Pelicans biggest bust or not. For all the hype, he really hasn’t done a lot for that team.
And I’m just glad that Chicago had a bigger bust than Marcus Fizer. I really wanted to see that dude do well as a pro, but sadly…
I will not accept this slander of Jonny flyn. he had a hip injury after his rookie year that at his size made it difficult to ever be a valuable nba player. To this day you cannot find him. No, he shouldn’t have been taken before curry but I think he would’ve had an above average nba career as an offensive talent.
can't wait for Anthony Bennett to go off on everyone on social media in 11 years
Barry has top tier content
It’s hard to call Anthony Bennett a bust when he wasn’t in the lottery for most mock drafts, dude was a troll pick. By definition he’s a major bust but he wasn’t even supposed to be picked that high by anyone
Don’t know about Fultz he looks really solid in Orlando
He was still a number one pick just cause you’re alright as a back up on a horrible team doesn’t mean you’re not a bust people really ride fultz nuts it’s ridiculous he’s a bust get over it
@@Slickgary007 okay Fultz is as bad as a player as Anthony Bennett both are busts so doesn’t matter hey guess what guess Lebron is a bust cause he never got 6 rings like Jordan and at that Jordan is a bust cause he didn’t get as many rings as Bill Russel nor did he score 100 points like Wilt might as well make everyone one a bust since it’s used so loosely