More Disappointing #1 pick: Derrick Coleman or Glenn Robinson?

More Disappointing #1 pick: Derrick Coleman or Glenn Robinson?

  • Derrick Coleman

    Votes: 41 70.7%
  • Glenn Robinson

    Votes: 17 29.3%

  • Total voters
    58
Good thread. DC no question. He could've been a 6'11 Barkley if he would've kept out of the clubs and kitchens. Big Dog did what he did, no surprises or disappointments.
 
tony kuock > petrovix

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Dam a tough one. They both had good careers but never lived up to the hype. I remember DC having a better career.
 
Anderson, Petrovic, Coleman, Morris, Bowie

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That was a Championship team. Instead of Dirk being the greatest European player of all time Petrovic would have been in that argument.

DC could have been Karl Malone times 2. There would have been a fight of calling Tim Duncan the greatest PF of all times if DC wasn't so lazy. He had to be the laziest NBA of all times.
 
Big Dog was a MONSTER offensively in college. Dude used to drop 40 regularly at Purdue. If I remember correctly, he balled out on the Fab 5 once. Watching him back then you'd imagine he was gonna be a BEAST in the league. He was a good player but never reached superstar status.

I was watching the 1990 DRAFT replay on NBA TV when DC went #1 and they were hyping him up as the next best thing at PF that year. Coleman "underachieved" but he was still a solid vet for many years and put up respectable #s on a couple clubs. That year him and Kenny Anderson took the Nets to the playoffs was his peak as a player IMO. Dude was working in the post, had a nice off the dribble J, could defend. Everything you want in a big. When he was motivated, he was a all star caliber player, but it seems a lot of times he wasnt motivated. I still laugh thinking bout those stick figure commercials he had for his shoes back then. Dude used to say them funny lil quotes and shit about the game.

I say Big Dog is the more dissapointing between these 2 though.
 
Big Dog was just a scorer.

DC could do anything on the court. Post up. Shoot from the perimeter. Pass. Handle the rock. Block shots. Defend when he wanted to. Hit free throws (except at Syracuse against Indiana).

Dude was easily one of thee most talented players in the league in terms of skill-sets and ability. But he was a major headcase.

Shortly after Kenny Anderson, the Nets All-Star guard, went AWOL for a day in Dec. 1994 and missed a Nets practice, Derrick Coleman, his teammate, responded to reporters' questions about the incident:

"Where were all you guys when Dwayne Schintzius missed practice? Everyone misses practice. Dwayne Schintzius misses practice. Jayson Williams misses practice. I miss practice. Even the coaches miss practice sometimes."

Then Coleman was reminded that Anderson, a team leader, might want to set a better example. "Whoop-de-damn-do," said Coleman "I didn't feel he owed anybody an apology." The Nets finished the 1994-95 season 30-52. Coleman, who missed practice more than anyone, was traded to the Sixers for Shawn Bradley shortly after the 1995-96 season began. Coleman averaged about 20 points and 10 rebounds a game for the Nets during his first five NBA seasons, on his way to becoming one of the league's best players. It wasn't to be. He did, however, achieve the distinction of being voted Page 2's second worst cancer in NBA history.
 
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