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To put in perspective how short Bynum's career was he's only 35 years old as of writing this comment and he's been out of the league for almost a decade. T-mac lasted longer and he was done at merely 32.
Oh yeah good ol' Andrew Bynum. Definitely the second best center during that era behind Dwight and it's really a shame that he ruined his own career by a single mistake going bowling despite enduring a knee injury in 2013.
He fell off the face of the earth. Besides a few photos of him visiting China and the 2016 finals nobody knows what he's up to. I thought maybe he'd come out with a statement on the passing of Kobe but never did.
theres 2 bigmen that we missed out to see their true potential. andrew bynum and greg oden. imagine those 2 bigmen going at it with dwight howard to see who was the undisputed best bigman in the NBa
But then he would be gone in few years thanks to the eventual new era of 3pts small player team like Curry’s. Bynum is 1 dimensional player like Taco Falls who still didn’t get a job
As a fan of bynum I don’t think he would of been a top 10 center since there’s so many better guys he wouldn’t be able to catch up too, unless he took off like a superstar making 10 straight all stars with big scoring numbers
I can't believe how incredibly wrong this statement is. He only played as well as he did because of Kobe and Gasol. He was NO WHERE NEAR the talent that Dwight Howard who took a team to the finals by himself.
@@willardweston8984 the difference is Gasol was a proven all star without Kobe and Bynum. If Bynum played on a bad team, he would be medoocre at best and not close to all star level. Playing with Kobe and Gasol benefited Bynum the most. He was no where near the player Dwight was who took Orlando to the finals by himself even beating Lebron in a playoff series
@@weho_brian Bynum was the 2nd best player on the lakers in the 2007-2008 season before the gasol trade. Gasol was getting pushed around by KG and Perk in the 2008 finals, so Gasol need Bynum more. Gasol did make 1 all star appearance before the Lakers but don’t hang your hat on that argument. Bynum was much needed in 2010.
He was the second best center in the league at a time when the great centers were retired and the stretch 5s weren't in vogue yet. If he hadn't gotten injured he would've had a similar fate to Dwight as shooting took more and more precedence over post play. He would've had to become an elite defender or improve his shooting if he wanted to stay in the league.
Bynum basically had the same problem as Brandon Roy. Became one of the best in the league at his position only for his career to abruptly end because of a knee condition. However, the Lakers trading him messed up his confidence, as Andy alluded to at the end. Andy, you should do a video about the 2004-05 SuperSonics. That was the last good team in Seattle and they were kind of ahead of their time with how much they emphasized the threes. They had the first Splash Brothers, so to speak, with Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis.
And that’s why I keep telling people to stop comparing eras because things were different just 10 years ago. Back then if a player were to just jack up 3’s like they do now they’d find themselves out of the league kinda like what happened to josh smith.
No they absolutely would not. They’d be expected to develop the shot, so that they could take it. If they couldn’t, then they absolutely never be allowed to shoot it. There aren’t centers taking threes just because. There never have been nor will there ever be.
I don't know if he would have lasted even if he stayed healthy. with the way the game changed especially in the mid 2010s his style of play was outdated by that point. we saw this happen to guys like Dwight Howard and to a lesser extent Roy Hibbert and Jahlil Okafor. it's sad that's how the game is now you just don't see teams running through bigs in the post anymore.
He would've had to change his game. In theory he could've been able to as Brook Lopez and both Gasol brothers eventually worked the three into their game. Who knows if Bynum would've had the desire to do so though.
@@edgaryzen4925 No he wasn't. He just wasn't seen as an especially hard worker and part of that like Andy touches on is he basically had to rehab an injury nearly every year. Who knows? Maybe Bynum could've become a good 3 point shooter had he stayed in the league and got some semblance of health.
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It's a shame people really thought Bynum was the best center when his best season statistically is comparable to Dwight's first season in L.A. Howard was recovering from back surgery
Other than Dwight there was nobody else at the time. Stat wasn't really a Center and fell off due to injury and not playing with Nash. Ben Wallace and Shaq were both on their last legs and on their way out of the league.
I always liked how Bynum used to always keep the ball high like all centers should do. Don't bring the ball down to the level of the players that are shorter.
If injuries ever happened, Bynum would be the second best center in the west behind Greg Oden. They played against each other in the preseason, and I remember Oden dominating Bynum.
I'm glad you all are acknowledging him as a top 2 center of his time. Keep the same energy when we have goat arguments and who had "superteams" and help
I saw Dwight vs Bynum in 2011, in Los Angeles. Dwight dominated Andrew with 22 and 16. He also limited Andrew to 10 points on 3-9 from the field, with 17 boards. Dwight’s defense is better but Bynum is better offensively
100%, and I like Bynum. But Dwight was better. Bynum was a throwback to 90s centers like Shaq, good in the post. Dwight was criticized for his lack of skills in the post, but he was the future of the Center position. In fact, Dwight suffered from listening too much to haters like Shaq and trying to change his game.
Lol having more fluid post moves doesn't mean you're a better offensive player if it doesn't translate to scoring more. Dwight had limited moves but he was most definitely a better offensive player by just being a better lob target
Bynum didn’t play nearly as much as Dwight had at that time. Also, Dwight is a heck of a lot more physically gifted. Dwight was 8 years in and Bynum was 7 in. However, Andrew missed how many games?
@@ballinboxer3676 I mean, if you have Kobe on your team, you ain't scoring more. He also had Gasol to contend with in touches. Whereas Orlando Dwight was the focus of their offense. Conclusions like these happen when you just look at stats and not the whole picture. No disrespect to Dwight, as he is a top 75 player in my own eyes, but Bynum was simply the better offensive player at his peak.
I still rock my old Bynum jersey he was so skilled for his age and then his Ming and body got the better of him so sad I love Andrew Bynum his dissent was so hard to watch
So I bought NBA 2K14 and I rebuilt the Lakers to what they were before the 2013. I got Bynum back as the starting centre and MAN his moves and shooting style are as smooth as silk. I can easily see why people here sing his praises and why he helped win the 2010 championship.
He has promise. I’m sure Kobe was frustrated with the kid. He was immature and probably injury prone on top of that. He showed glimpses of being a really good, unstoppable centers at times.
Bynum was killing that year before Kobe slammed into his knee, ending his season. He was never the same after that but he was at his best before that injury.
I think he could have been a franchise player, the leading scorer on a team, MVP conversations each season, and get them in deep playoffs run each season, which is unreal to believe for any center/powerfoward to do in the NBA post-2010, when the NBA started to distance themselves from post-player-big-man and started to focus on guards and small forwards with speed and athleticism. Bynum was also a really good free throw shooter, so he was not gonna be a liability on that aspect of the game
Wow thanks Andy Hoops for making videos about me, I admit that I was lost of focus since we won 2nd chips and failed to win our 3rd. Traded to Sixers is one of the reasons to make me lose focus, Kobe is always the one that push me further, without him and Gasol I lost my interest on playing pro basketball. I'm so regretting my decision back then. . . . . . This is might be the respons if the real Bynum watched this videos and replied to Andy
I definitely credit the Big 3 of Bynum, Gasol, and Odom, for LA's two championships at that time. Kobe always thought he was the key to winning, but Shaq and these 3 showed that dominant big men were the key to winning, especially at that time in the NBA.
@@jaahnnn The Lakers weren't a superteam. Artest/Odom/Bynum/Fisher/Ariza weren't these all-star or consistent shot creators. But they definitely had the best frontcourt in the league and it showed when the Lakers would win games even when Kobe shot 35% FG.
Andrew Bynum was definitely a great player but as the saying goes: 'The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.'. Injuries really killed his career. He was doing really great in the 2008-2009 season until that freak accident to his knee against Memphis that year, derailing his upward trajectory. Eerily, the season prior, there was a similar accident to his other knee against the same team around the same time! I was in a NBA fantasy league for the first time and having most of my team comprised of the Lakers starters with Kobe, Gasol and Bynum. Fun times. Thanks for another great video Andy!
He was definitely the best offensive center from 2011-2013, Kobe was holding him back a little as well but he proved him wasn’t mature enough for the game. This guy was dominating on a ridiculous fg%
A lot of people forget but kobe was banged up before he tore his Achilles he had knee surgery in the 2010 off season and had knee problems before the Achilles injury that was the last straw but there’s no telling what would of happen if he didn’t get hurt that 2013 season dragging the lakers to the playoffs playing insane minutes and guarding the point guards he was also in his 17th season age 34
@@Mike1122. "Played limited minutes" compared to Perkins "out" is very impactful bro. How Doc Rivers gonna do his rotation to deal with those limited minutes with his lineup
His post moves were a thing of beauty, which is why today's NBA basketball is so unwatchable. Players dribble dribble dribble then heaves from logo three. Ugh.
Agreed. Celtics fans always bring up Perkins and guess what leprechauns? Bynum and Ariza both were more important to our team than Perkins was to yours.
I love me some Mamba but before I watched this I only remembered his toxicity with Diesel and D12 but geez him and Bynum didn’t mesh either..That’s crazy 😂
Ahh good old Andrew Bynum what could’ve been men those injuries for by numbers were absolutely rough and just catastrophic for him. If he never got hurt man what could’ve happened to his career if he would’ve stayed on the Lakers, or if he actually did played in Philly the whole trust the process thing probably would’ve never happened and they probably would not have tanks for Joel Embiid or Ben Simmons in 2016
yeah but when Bynuim was healthy he avg 15pts per game, I dont really understand your point. People are acting like Bynum was the Derrick Rose of centers, he was never really that good to begin with and only benefited from playing with Kobe/Gasol.
@@weho_brian His best season in 2012 he averaged 18 and 12 at 24 years old. You're right he wasn't Rose and probably never would've been a serious MVP candidate as the #1 option on his own team but we never saw him as the #1 guy. By the time he was reaching his prime years he was already out of the league.
Bynum was a greatttt role player on those big Lakers teams, but he never had to carry the team, never had big regular seasons, he always kinda saved his best for the big games at the end of the season. He had bad knees even as a teen.
Andy, I am a couple of months from 42 I have been a lakers fan all my life. Magic is my all time favorite. I loved kobe and Shaquille. But I can't tell you how disappointed I was that he turned out the way he did it should have been more.
I remember he would rank up to like 98 overall on nba 2k7 once you got a few years in 😂 I saw potential in him as a top 10 player in league all we got was teases of that even for a full year
He was in my class in community college under a different name. He was dressed in different clothing to hide his identity (which I don't blame him for because I wouldn't want that attention either). This was back in 2017.
@@janoycresnova9156 As to why he would actually need to go to college after making that kind of money is beyond me. However, he probably went to JC because one, he wanted to keep a low profile. Two, he probably didn't meet the initial requirements to attend a big name university. There's nothing wrong with bettering yourself, even if you already are a multi millionaire.
What a stroke of luck that the Lakers got rid of Bynum when they did! Literally right after getting traded from Los Angeles he gets a career-ending injury and never even gets to play a game for Philly
People refuse to believe me when I tell them that Bynum was the #2 center behind Dwight at one point. Dude even challenged Shaq when Shaq tried to bully him and gave him that energy back, AS A ROOKIE. He was that dude. Just wish he maxed out his potential and able to control his anger better
I think Bynum being in LA was best for him maturity wise being around Kobe. I think if he hadn't had knee problems he would've developed into a top 5 center.
As a Laker fan who watched all his years in LA, he was never better than Pau Gasol nor he could ever replaced Pau due to his inability to pass out of double team. He peaked “stat-wise” in 2012 sure. But true Laker fans were more annoyed by him. Because his emergence took possessions away from Pau, who is the true core of the triangle offense.
If Bynum never had those injuries he woulda been better then Dwight. Bynums offensive game was miles ahead of Dwight’s cause Dwight depended on pure athleticism plus Bynum could hit free throws
People are acting like Andrew Bynum was the Derrick Rose of centers, he was never really that good to begin with and only benefited from playing with Kobe/Gasol. He was never all star level talent, maybe at one point he was considered the 2nd best center behind dwight but thats only because the pool of talent at that position was so smal.
