Meet The 2005 NBA Draft: The Class of Unfilled Potential 

CORRECTION: A legendary coach.

Manuel Hernández lol

I only know two players who made a coach quit

Manuel Hernández It’s crazy that he made a HOF coach quit his job in the middle of the year

Third best coach of all time

he got fat pretty much it

Injuries and inflated ego

Injuries. He was always chubby but when he got to the nets he couldn't stay healthy

His daughter got really sick, he could've focused on the NBA while worrying bout her. Not making any excuses for him but that's the part they never really talk about

Didn’t take his fitnesss seriously never felt like he wanted to be the best.

Two bitches at the same time like I'm Lou Will

Lol

Sweet Lou 😁

I guess that Utah just grew on em? He was like I'm out here in the Mormon capital where all men out there have 2+++ wives lmfao 😂😂😂

@@adrianezzo1696 lol that's D Will, we talking Lou Will. He had two GFs at once.

Hayward and george aren't injury proned.

Wow!!!!!

ljpal18 Hayward had a career altering injury that kept him out a year and George had a n injury that kept him out 8 months

@@fortniteconnaisseur4127 That's not what injury proned means. Those were single freak impact injuries. John wall and Boogie are injury proned. Derrick rose in the 11-12 lockout season was injury proned. Jordan wasnt injury proned because he broke his foot and missed most of a season.

ljpal18 ya well what am o supposed to call it. The class where all th top players got abs once that was a major injury? Cause that looks like such a good comment smh

Ed Estrella Utah sucks as a state and as team...move

@@crisclay2678 nah

he was only there 6 years....1 conference finals...2 all stars there...

So basically fuck Utah as a staff record label and a crew 😆

cris clay Let me guess...you're one of those dumbass who actually believes that everyone in Utah is racist because the media said so. Stop being a sheep.

Outside of his third season in the league which was an excellent season, he was a very high volume low efficiency scorer with below average defense just as the league started to realize high volume low eficiency guys had little value. His defense actually improved a lot in Milwaukee which allowed him to hang in the league a lot longer than he would have otherwise. career Ts% of 52 percent (Josh Smith territory).

@@gamble777888 a lot of players back then wasn't efficient 😂 especially not premier players like AI 💯 Efficiency wasn't super important until this era 🙄

@@babygoat_szn2548 Efficiency has always been important, just not emphasized by stupid front offices until around the mid-2000's. Regardless Monta wasn't just inneficient by today's standards he was inefficient by his era's standards as well. He put up big scoring numbers but played over 40 mins a game some seasons, Per 36 mins he was at around 18ppg while shooting around 30 points below the league average TS%. Now he did have a few years here and there where he was at around the league average, and one exceptionally good year which was his third year in the NBA. But overall there is a reason he bounced around after GS and never stuck around. Teams were shifting away from one dimensional volume players, and that's what Ellis was. Overall he had a fantastic NBA career as far as 40th picks go, so don't want to sound like I'm saying he was worthless.

@@gamble777888 he has eff fg% + fg% + 3points almost like kobe and other star sgs, his problem is just he only know scoring and steals, no defense, no passing,for scoring he is great even with efficiency

@@gamble777888 "Efficiency has always been import" Kobe Bryant called from the grave, he's laughing at this statement

he saved them in the 2015 finals with his small ball center passing/handles/post game skills as a small ball versatile quick can use either hand c...thats when the death small ball lineup of lee green barnes iggy klay curry became a thing when they benched bogut after game 3 of the finals and just out skilled the cavs

@@razkable nobody likes talking about that once he got playing time in game 4 and they switched the lineups around that's when they started finding openings to score and started winning.He's a unsung hero for the warriors buildup to their success

His fall ruined the jazz for ten full years. Fuck me.

They changed it right before that season

WillToNihilsm y’all got potential now tho

@@trentonmullins4948 I'm so excited.

WillToNihilsm y’all got 3 potential all stars, go get em 💪🏻

Two wives in the same house, and they had no beef with one another lmao

@@JoeBro915 Pimpin' ain't easy

@@JoeBro915 something like Ronaldinho, true legends those two. I'd add a player that played soccer for my hometown team, a dutch Lorenzo Ebisilio, the man managed to become a father of two babies with two different women in the same day.

I guess that Utah just grew on em? He was like I'm out here in the Mormon capital where all men out there have 2+++ wives lmfao😂😂😂

because he was good not great. Highlights dont win awards

The Big Dog he won a slam dunk contest award so it counts.

@@Manu-qq2im no it doesnt. U dont get in the hof on slam dunk contest. That's an allstar award. Nothing to do with the regular season or post season.

CPGoat #3 i’m not even talking about being in the hof. The og comment said that how come he has no awards. I just replied that he has which is true. Nothing about being in the hof. In his career, it will count.

@@Manu-qq2im no it wont. That's what I'm saying. No one is looking at ur allstar weekend accolades. That's just an extra. Something cool. But it's not apart of ur career accolades.

Biggest highlight is Dunkin on shaq then getting chin check.

Christian Carrillo that move on Shaq made me believe man. Shame cause Bynum can be better than Howard if he tries

Bynum has 2 rings thanks to Kobe. That's still quite the career run most pros can only dream of.

@@albertwang6465 he would have been top 2 but Howard was amazing.

@@ssj4goku18825theepic bro Howard has zero offense to save his life. Bynum has moves and a midrange shot. I’d take a potential fulfilled Bynum over Howard any day

Manu isn't as versatile as Lou coz Lou can score off the court HAHA!

@@mr.kaizhouto.9931 watch the 2005 finals vs one of the best defensive team ,and watch all 2005 playoffs and tell me if manu wasn't versatile,manu deserve the finals mvp that year

@@agustinflores3242 i'm just kidding with my comment. I'm also a Manu fan. Dude wasn't just an NBA champ but also an Olympic and Euroleague champ and he didnt just lead them just by scoring and he really is a versatile guy

He would be so good in today's NBA

Agreed

I haven't heard that name since 2004 pistons

Spaceman Ju7 he had a few good years with the Jazz with Boozer and Williams

Okur was a big man that could of hit 3's back in a era when big men wasn't taking 3's

Pretty sure there was a video bro

Wilson Sy made a video on that

*was

LeaperStone low tier all star but still kinda soft

All-star but not a superstar

Believe me.... My blazers want to rewrite that history every day

@@zergmare7 I got beans

I was 12 years old and like halfway through that season he missed a wide open layup and I almost cried

What happened I actually haven’t heard much about that season tbh

@@zergmare7 can you go into detail why? I've never heard about this lmao

😂😂😂😂

Frying hahaha

like with d wade cp3 had to gain some bulk in his prime to deal with his lack of size attacking the rim and constant injuries which hurt his shooting speed and prime...

IbTusPeter in the 80’s it was dominated by the same one team

Le3-6ron that was more of a testament to how great the Showtime Lakers were. You still had parity from spots 2 through 8. 80's notables include Alex English's Nuggets teams, Artis Gilmore/Mike Mitchell's Spurs, Gus Williams/Jack Sikma's Sonics, Hakeem/Sampson Rockets, Blackmon/Aguirre Mavs, Xavier McDaniels Sonics, and one of the most underrated teams ever, the 3-headed monster Phoenix Suns team with Kevin Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, & Tom Chambers.

I can't remember when the western conference was weak maybe the Jordan Era

To actually answer your old question 8th seeds were either getting 50 wins or close to it from 2010 down

welp i think 90s bulls sorta covered the western dominance with the bad boys earlier too

LMFAO shit was a Classic

Raymond Smith Shit you’re right.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Who do you have in your top 5?

I think what he meant was top 5 of his time man

He a couple of seasons where he was def a top 5 guard. Are you only looking at stats, did you even see Baron play in his prime or at all ?

@Justin Last Alot of players put up great stats on a team going nowhere in the 2000s Baron Davis was a star.

Top 7 at best. He was never top 5. Prime years from 00-08. Certainly Paul, D-Will, J-Kidd, Nash and Parker were better. Hell even Billups was probably better. I might even take Marbury over him as well.

Not that many good PGs as today though. Name the few elite ones if u can....

@@kevinavila8639 That is true bro. Way more of a guard driven league. But there was a good amount of talent then too. Gilbert Arenas, Devin Harris, Baron Davis, Steve Nash, Jamier Nelson, Steve Francis, Mike Bibby,Jason Kidd,Tony Parker, Jason Williams,Tj Ford, I know forgetting hella. But in a big man focused league, I'd say all these guys were mad good.

As a warriors fan bogut was my favourite player

Channing Frye, David Lee and Andrew Bynum too

@@vincenieva I forgot about that .....

University of Utah bogut woo!

Bynum had 3 straight finals appearance with the lakers and back to back titles. His demise started when he demanded more touches publicly and Kobe didn't like that.

Also David Lee won a ring with the warriors in 2015 with bogut

Loved watching him and Vince in college. They were a great dual.

Jan Rei Beltran shouldn’t have been picked no. 1, underachieved due to foot injuries.

@@FlyingV555 ikr, why don't people talk about him as a soft bust

I hate the Lakers but he got robbed of a title by David Stern(rip) by not letting him join Kobe

NBA MIXTAPE they didn’t have his rights he not in game

Ryan Akers Deron Williams Carried His teAm To the WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS! Danny Granger put up numbers on a bad team (at the time) And then got carried by pg13 what are you talking about bro?

Ryan Akers Sorry What has Danny Granger ever carried his team too?

Ryan Akers I hate deron but even I gotta admit averaging 20 and 10 assists is way more impressive then averaging 26 and 2.

Nets 4life Imagine Saying Danny Granger is a legend😂😂😂💀

Math Simon stop. Lou is better sixth man wise

Kibs Kibs “sixth man wise” lol

Manu is definitely the greatest 6man to ever lace them up! 4 championships don’t lie 🤪

@Big Poppa Trump theres this hall of famer named john havlicek who played 6th man for like 4 years...look him up...

why?