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Patrick O'Bryant lead his Taiwanese pro team team with 34 points today, to clinch a playoff spot. He is leading the league with an average of 21.5 ppg. He is 2nd in rebounding with 14 rpg, and leads in blocks with 2.7 bpg.
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Impressive, unless of course the opposition is made up of
Taiwanese people! :-)BUilding for the Future
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Patrick O'Bryant plans to play in the Korean Basketball League this upcoming season - working on details to be announced soon about his new deal..Comment
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He made this list....
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In fairness to POB - I know he didn't last but he earned a lottery pick salary for two years then was resigned for 2 more plus a few short stints beyond....
he like many others on that list who are being labelled "flops" - still spent four seasons in the NBA,
made multiple $ millions...
It's a little unfair to lump them in with TRUE flops like Christ Washburn & Tractor Traylor and some other that didn't make the list....who were true flops...
The average career length in the NBA has varied from 4 to 5 years, so POB is little different than the average and his earnings were close to the median career earnings.Comment
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Traylor had a far better nba career than obryant from any statistical measure as well as financialComment
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Good to see you defending BU again, but I don't see how you can call Traylor a "true" flop and POB not a flop.Originally posted by tornado View PostComment
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BNC - the very people who put together that list were the ones who called him a flop, and YOU are the one who posted it.
Here are their words...
"..Traylor never played a game for the team that drafted him.... Traylor ??” one of the players at the heart of the Michigan basketball scandal ??” was a role player for three different NBA teams between 1998 and 2004 before embarking on a foreign career in four different countries, battling weight problems throughout."Comment
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I misunderstood. I thought you were implying that POB was not a flop.Originally posted by tornado View PostComment
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There's no doubt most would call him a flop - depends on expectations...
I guess if earning ~$9 mil in an NBA career that was about average length is being a flop then so be it...
but POB was a Top 10 pick only for one reason - he went in the year that there were NO high schoolers/hardship kids that didn't attend college.
There was a desperation for big men and drove POB's stock up - so yes - he was definitely a disappointment for a Top 10 pick...
but guys like Olowokandi, Pavel Podkolzin, Korolev, Leon Smith, Washburn, Yinka Dare, Mouhamed Sene .. were bigger flops because some took a team's #1 pick and others never played at all...
BTW Sene was picked with the very next pick after POB and was bigger bust - making a grand total of only 15 baskets in his career of less than half the games POB played and yet he's not on people's "flop list"?
Podkolzin at one time was projected as a TOP 4 draft pick and played 6 games, making zero basketsComment
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