Ok Guys, I think its time... Step into confession and voice your repentance for your sins agains this team and their top pick. I think we can safely say even if Channing doesn't keep up at this pace, the #8 pick in the draft is far from a bust. So come out now and ask for forgiveness. This is not for those of you who would have liked Bynum because he has potential. This is for thos posters who said Channing is a soft scrub who won't ammount to anything. Ask for repentance from the basketball god's and it shall be offered. I won't do it, but there are posters who will go back in the archives and start calling out names. So just come clean.



Forgiveness Is Yours.

playing much better than summer league.

i'll give it 3 hail maries

Channing got the label soft long before he hit then nba. its hard to correlate because 95% of nba fans dont watch college basketball regularly and college fans dont watch nba, weird but true. I believe Channing Frye came into his own the second half of his senior year. If he had continued at the pace early in the season, Isiah Thomas would not have been promising him anything and Channing wouldve been picked somewhere late 1st early second. He came of age at the right time and earned his spot at pick 8 through tremendous offensive effeciency and great post season play for AZ. Its very hard to get a true 5, and even watching Bynum last night, you can see glimpses of what he will be able to do. We are seeing Channing is already a highly polished NBA caliber player who can be an all star 4 man. I dont think anyone lost there picks 8-9-10 Frye Bynum and Diogu will all be upper echlon players.

Not necessary; we already know who had what position on Frye, who called him soft (most posters here), who didn't want him at 8 (most posters here), which poster called him a bust after the summer league, etc.

[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 11-28-2005 4:37 PM]

I said he's soft and nothing special. And I stand by that. He's a poor man's SAR. He's a nice piece and a safe one with the 8th pick but not a cornerstone of a franchise.

Posted by islesfan:

I said he's soft and nothing special. And I stand by that. He's a poor man's SAR. He's a nice piece and a safe one with the 8th pick but not a cornerstone of a franchise.

yeah thats probably true but why would you expect to get a tim duncan or kevin garnett (which is what I assume you mean by franchise cornerstone) with the 8th pick?

The perfect clarity of hindsight is a luxury most cannot afford.

If one can predict the next 70 games I sure would like to know.

I was one of the Briggs disciple. Hated it when we picked frye. Glad im wrong. go CHANNIN'

Remember guys: Isles played in the NBA for many years thats why he's able to forecast what a player will amount to in the future

Isles for goodness sakes dont you have any positivity in you, whenever your in a thread your so negative..no one said he's a franchise cornerstone, but you never know how he'll wind up in the future...

i just hope frye can improve his rebounding, and get stronger so he can use his post moves more, its true that he had 11 rebounds last game but Im not convinced that he can do that on a consistent basis.

I see the Amazing Kreskin still has not learned his lesson about extrapolating from single games. What will it take?