I don't think it's possible for him to be the same guy/superstar he was.
He's going to be regarded as an all time bust.

I don't think it's possible for him to be the same guy/superstar he was.
He's going to be regarded as an all time bust.

Whoa guy.

There is a ton of room between superstar and all-time bust.

Thabeet, Olowokandi, Milicic, Morrison, Brown, Bowie, Oden.

Those are busts.

That's fair. I don't mean bust like bust bust but an all round 1st pick who isn't able to play or is an average player even good is a bust in my opinion. We'll look back at this as a wasted 1st pick.

Disagree. It has already been a good pick, if he were to never play another game. Two top seeds in a row, with one year losing in the ECF to a stacked Miami team and the second year he was injured.

Secondly, I don't think the above matters as I think he will still be a "good" point guard in the future. He won't be a Top 2 or 3 PG, but easily Top 10 at his position and he can be the PG on a championship team.

Don't you want more than a couple years for a hundred million and a first overall pick?

so then IMU agrees with me? I am doubting myself now

Tears his MCL this season and misses another year even though its a couple month injury.

Tears his MCL this season and misses another year even though its a couple month injury.

Yeah the meniscus tear is a nothing injury and shouldn't prevent him from doing anything. Half of the population is walking around with meniscal tears and doesn't even know it.* I think he'll come back gangbusters.


*Bernstein, Jason. My Leg Done Hurt Somethin' Fierce: Undetected Meniscal tears in the ignorant state university educated population, a longitudinal study. Journal of Orthopaedics, March 2013, pp. 1373-1418.

That's fair. I don't mean bust like bust bust but an all round 1st pick who isn't able to play or is an average player even good is a bust in my opinion. We'll look back at this as a wasted 1st pick.

Yeah the meniscus tear is a nothing injury and shouldn't prevent him from doing anything. Half of the population is walking around with meniscal tears and doesn't even know it.* I think he'll come back gangbusters.


*Bernstein, Jason. My Leg Done Hurt Somethin' Fierce: Undetected Meniscal tears in the ignorant state university educated population, a longitudinal study. Journal of Orthopaedics, March 2013, pp. 1373-1418.

dannyb is my new favorite poster.

He will be ok. Final prediction. Don't like it meet me at Keith hackney's gym and prove me wrong. Odd job from the Austin powers movies couldn't.

"That's my biggest surprise coming in here," Syracuse coach and Team USA assistant Jim Boeheim told ESPNChicago.com, in reference to Rose's performance. "The one thing I was worried about is whether he would be able to step in after so much time [off]. He looks, to me, as good as when we had him in the world championship in '10, when he was at full strength coming [into] an MVP year. He looks very, very good. Obviously, [when] he gets in some games, it will be a little different, but it's not like he hasn't had success in games. He had a lot of success.

"He's been the most impressive guy here."

In just two days, Rose seems to have reminded the basketball world just how talented he can be when he's healthy.

Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski echoed Boeheim's praise.

"He was phenomenal [Monday], and he was today, too," Krzyzewski said. "He hasn't held anything back. The neat thing about today was we went hard [Monday] and we went hard today, and he hasn't been in this [practice] environment, and he was as good or better today."

The thing that has impressed Krzyzewski most is the way Rose has attacked the competition. The former MVP is trying to be one of the 12 players who will make up Team USA at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in late August in Spain.

"He's gone after people," Krzyzewski said. "[Shying away from contact] ain't happening. He's going after everybody, and he's really going hard. His movement on defense has been spectacular. When we started practice [Monday], what he did defensively -- whoa. It picked everybody up. You don't play that type of defense in the NBA because you have to play 40 minutes and 100 games, but here if you play 20 minutes, that's a lot, but you don't have to play consecutively, so you can go to an extreme -- that's what he's doing. I think he's shown he has great balance and strength. He's stronger, and he has better balance, and he's shooting the ball great. I think he's been absolutely terrific these first two days."