Originally posted by crzymdups:
Bron was 18 and ready to go. Heck, even Jermaine O'neal showed a lot more in his first season out of high school. As did Tyson and Eddy. I'm just saying Bynum has a long way to go and hasn't shown too much yet to make you think he's definitely going to avoid the pitfalls, especially at 19yrs playing in LA with a ball hog superstar and a million distractions and hangers on. I'm not rooting against him, but I also don't think LA or NY is the right market to try to develop a kid like that.
There's tons of examples of very good NBA players who didn't get much of an OPPORTUNITY their first year. Here's one you may have heard of:
Ben Wallace 1st year - 5.8 mpg, 34% FG, 1.1 ppg, 1.7 rpg, .1 ast, .24 stl, .32 blk, .53 TO, .80 PF
His stats look kind of sucky, but he barely played and it's too small of a sample to make projections. There are plenty of examples like this. Now please stop sprouting off utter BS based on a ridiculously small sample sizes.
[Edited by - Solace on 07-19-2006 11:23 AM]
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