The Reason: I saw grainy clips of the first and second game – the difference in the 2nd game?- The entire offense miraculously switched completely around and most everything was run for and thru him which is not going to happen everyday even in a regular d-leauge game.

I’d wager that nobody saw the media storm that came with the the 2nd pick in the draft barely making it to the all-star break in the leauge. The kid’s skills were (sometimes unfairly) dragged thru the mud which would have sliced into his already fragile psyche. And when he went down and was same-ol same-ol in his first game there, agent bill duffy & wallace and the gang would have thought ‘enough is enough something has to be done before we lose this pick foor good’ hence the complete change in the d teams offence over one game.

And you know what? It aint a bad thing.

Let the kid bulid up his skills and confidence by dominating a bit because the alternative of trying to build up his skils and confidence by going up against nba players hasnt worked.

Perhaps some playing time will.

Still, “ostensible” is far too weak a qualifier to calling Thabeet a “future franchise cornerstone.” If we aren’t going to completely write him off based on being assigned, we also shouldn’t give him credit simply for being drafted second. Anyone can be drafted second, provided the team drafting is dumb enough. Stomile Swift was drafted second overall. I hope no one ever called him a franchise cornerstone.

My guess is that Thabeet will go down as a Shawn Bradley-sized bust. But he’s young and huge, so he’ll get plenty of chances in the league to prove me wrong.