Bust with a capitol UST.

that we needed someone of impact NOW to help move towards playoff level. I'm afraid that if he comes back to the NBA somebody's gonna break him in half! He's so thin he has to move around in a shower to get wet.

Won't get his minutes under Don Nelson. He just can't stay on the floor long enough. He has a nice jumpshot, so i've heard, for a big guy, but otherwise, he just can't do much for a Nelson team. He'd actually be pretty good on a half court team that needs a 3rd string center who can make an impact.

was a complete waste...none of those guys will every do anything in the NBA..i hope POB is investing that contract money wisely now cuz the pay isn't that good in the euro-leagues

He is where many experts expected him to be - nothing - this season, simply because he was too raw and still is.

We drafted him for his upsides that won't come until maybe 2008, so let's revisit this whole deal in a year or two.

Calling him a 'bust' now is simply ignorance of the fact that he isn't drafted as a 'need' for this year.

"it ain't hard to tell" that POB has MAJOR BUST potential.

good post. i agree completely

it's way too early to tell, but he can't really be a bust if the expectations for him weren't that high to begin with. I mean, was anyone in here expecting him to burst on the scene with 20/10 per night? No. I think any sort of contribution during the season would have been a bonus. He's way too raw and only played himself into the top 10 of the draft in the tournament. Had he had a bad tourney, he wouldn't have declared.

In the NBA, just because you're drafted in the top 10 doesn't even indicate that you'll ever make an impact in the league. There are just so many 1st round NBA busts, it's not even funny. If he turns out to be a starter in the league, then he'll have been a success.

As I said at the time, he was the best big man available at the 9th spot where the warriors picked and unforunately there were only 8 impact type players in the draft and they all went ahead of the W's. They did the best they could given their position, but no one can say they really had high hopes for an immediate impact or that would ever become an NBA star.

his upside is to become a slightly more mobile marc jackson with less of the attitude.  if we needed a soft jumpshooting tall guy with no post presence, we could have kept t-dub and his dd rebounds.

and to think of all the great nellie-ball athletes we overlooked to draft POB...

mully is schizophrenic.  how can he have the genius to draft monta...yet have convinced himself that chef patty was the next The Dream?  the kid played two moderately decent games in the tourney. can you imagine POB going 1-1 versus Greg Oden at Ohio STate?    

there's no doubt he's a huge bust.  if he were the first project we had goin then that'd be one thing, but with so many guys on the team already underperforming, even at the same position in some cases (yes adonal, i'm talking about you), then it might be a different story. but he's the latest in a series of failed/failing projects which might make him the biggest bust of all.  bottom line, id bet every single 1st round pick could get the numbers POB's gettin in the D-League in the NBA if they got the minutes, and that's just uncalled for.

It also proves my theory that if you are 7 feet tall and can walk, then you will drafted.

He's no bust to me because I never expected anything  out of him. Dunleavy was a bust because I thought he would be good. I never thought anything positive of O'Bryant...

even when the warriors suck, they don't suck enough to get the right players. every year in fact, it seems the warriors suck, but come july they don't suck enough to get that one guy who'll turn their luck around. Its Warriors Karma or something.

So far i think its too early to tell what POB will do in this league. Expectations were low to begin with, so i can't exactly say i'm disappointed. Well i am, but not moreso because of POB's ineffectiveness.

There was bad scouting everywhere. Alexander Johnson, Craig Smith, and Paul Millsap were solid college players that should have been taken much earlier. Any of those players could have been the Warriors selection instead of POB.

The problem was that the Warriors didn't know or didn't have a plan in the offseason. Selecting POB well before bringing Nellie back obviously means that either Mullin didn't know he was going to make a coaching change or that he was going to be able to get Nellie to come back.

Selecting POB was a mistake in that he'll never be successful in the system the Warriors are running now. They're better off cutting their losses and trading him now rather than trying to fit that square peg into a round hole.

Had Mullin known what the summer plans were, he would have gotten a leaper like Simmons or a badass worker like Millsap. Johnson killed Shelden Williams in workouts and had a first round promise that fell through because of the business end of things. He would've been solid in this uptempo system, too.

It all boils down to the Warriors not having set plans in the summer and scrambling. The ship has been righted now - the team does have a vision - but POB needs to be dealt before his value plummets even more. Package him with Pietrus and let's make a deal.

First of all, what people need to understand is that larger players take longer to develop. They are rarer to find, especially skilled. Remember Kwame Brown? Everyone said he was a bust in Washington until the lakers got him and worked him into shape.
So many people are quick to second guess and play GM on here. But give Mully some credit he made the best choice AT THE TIME. At the time of the draft, the mindset on the warriors was continue to develop young team to be a capable half court team (under monty) with the ability to transition, and continue to develop half court defense.
At the time of the draft. Bieds had been a BACKUP the previous- please read that again. The obvious immediate need was Center-especially with Foyle's declining production.
There were plenty of guard/sf types on the W's at the time:ellis, davis, richardson, pietrius, wagner, mccloud, roberson, dunleavy, and even barnes.
So For That Time it made the most sense.
What people are doing on here is looking at what all went down: Nellie coming in, system changing, warriors current needs, etc. and then looking back and trying to be the "GM". Get real. If you are that prophetic and know so much get your butt out and play some lotto. Maybe you'll have more to do than second guess others.