Andrew Bynum: What Could've Been

[VIntageNOvel]

What? 2x NBA Champion, 1x NBA All-Star, 1x NBA All-Second team and you call him the biggest bust ever?

Kid was an absolute beast, improving every year until knee problems became too much to overcome. He was an absolute terror in the paint with his long arms.

Get out of here.

maybe bust in term that he can be so much better without injury

i mean with the lazy attitude, how he dont like basketball, how he started off late , and the injury, yet still manage to be clear cut #2
one could only imagine what if

[RedBlackAttack]

Against Joakim Noah too

He completely dominated Noah in that game, too, so it wasn't just one pretty move.

20 points (8-14 shooting), 14 rebounds, 5 blocks in 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, Noah scored 4 points on 2-10 from the field.

It was games like this that gave us hope that Bynum was on his way back to form. He was never consistent enough, though, and his horrible attitude got in the way.

He pretty much cost the team a playoff spot. In his 35 games in Cleveland, the Cavs were 12-23, while being basically completely healthy the whole time. After he left the team, they finished the year 22-25, while being ravaged with injuries to key players.

But, even if you take the .468 winning percentage they maintained after Bynum was gone and apply it to the first 35 games, the Cavs easily get into the playoffs. Something tells me, with as healthy as they were during Bynum's stay, the percentage would have been better than that.

He did far more damage to the team than I ever though possible. I didn't think his addition in the offseason could possibly hurt us, just because of the way his contract was structured. I was wrong.

[navy]

He pretty much cost the team a playoff spot. .

How, exactly?

[JohnFreeman]

What did Bynum do to get kicked out of Cleveland?

[RedBlackAttack]

How, exactly?

The numbers don't lie. Cavs had a .342 winning percentage in the 35 games with him, during which time the team was basically totally healthy.

In the 47 games after he left, the team's winning percentage shot up to .468, while being ravaged with injuries to key guys (Kyrie, Waiters, Deng). Also, all of the in-fighting, finger-pointing and tension was also seemingly gone the moment he was out of town.

He was a complete and utter disaster.

[RedBlackAttack]

What did Bynum do to get kicked out of Cleveland?

1. He wasn't good enough in his initial 35 games to warrant keeping around, fiscally. If he had stayed in Cleveland past the trade deadline, they would have owed him double the money.

2. His attitude was awful. It was reported that, during practice, he started heaving shots up from all over the court, including one from beyond half court.

It just wasn't working out. He also probably cost Chris Grant his job.

[navy]

The numbers don't lie. Cavs had a .342 winning percentage in the 35 games with him, during which time the team was basically totally healthy.

In the 47 games after he left, the team's winning percentage shot up to .468, while being ravaged with injuries to key guys (Kyrie, Waiters, Deng). Also, all of the in-fighting, finger-pointing and tension was also seemingly gone the moment he was out of town.

He was a complete and utter disaster.

Seems more coincidental to me actually. He didnt play enough to blame him for losses and his personal issues dont seem like they would affect what the other team members were doing. (Kyrie and Dion)

[DukeDelonte13]

There has actually been a medical breakthrough within the last few weeks.

Scientists have actually finally figured out how to regrow the cartilage in joints.

Before, the microfracture surgeries and other similar techniques only produced kind of a pseudo cartilage that wasn't the same consistency as the cartilage you are originally born with.


So although Bynum's time is done, in the future players like him will be able to have much longer careers.

[DCL]

not convinced it's all from injuries.

he just seemed like he stopped giving a f---.

[M47]

Is he going to play small minutes against the wizards?

[DukeDelonte13]

not convinced it's all from injuries.

he just seemed like he stopped giving a f---.

no it's not all injuries, but the dude has knees of a 60 year old man, maybe even worse.

It's easy for us to say he's b*tchmade and doesn't have heart, but in reality, every time he steps on the court he's in pain. It's to a point where he just wants to live normally in his 30's and 40's, and already has millions of dollars.

Is it even worth him to play for another contract? Probably not. Sh*tty thing is that he keeps stringing teams along.

[cos88]

Is he going to play small minutes against the wizards?

i really don't see how.


the most interesting things in this matchup should be how much is john wall going to abuse the opposing guard and how will hibbert play considering he will have incresead minutes

[jzek]

Next year if healthy he should start over Hibbert and Indiana should trade Roy.

[Rake2204]

I do not think much about what Andrew Bynum could have been. He always kind of struck me as a guy who was playing basketball because he was big and people were telling him to. He actually did pretty well for a few years considering what his mentality was alleged to have been.

[DukeDelonte13]

Next year if healthy he should start over Hibbert and Indiana should trade Roy.

he's never getting healthy. His condition can only worsen save for doctors being able regrow healthy cartilage in his knees. It's not going to happen in time for Bynum.