There is a lot of BS in this thread.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bendedr01.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/makerth01.html
40% FG 5.9 points in 20 minutes and you're impressed about Bender. Such low standards!
Neither of these guys were ready to prime time and both of them were grossly over-hyped.
You mean Bender Supporters?
Not as many as there will be in a year or two IMO.
I am not impressed, I am pleasantly surprised how he handled the implosive surroundings in Phoenix and got better;
- coach fired
- he got 25 pounds of muscle
- new league, and culture, he was in foreign Israel before that
- inexperienced teammates, except for JD and TC
- losing at a .298 clip (29-68)
- He is not even 20 yet, that is sooo young, and the same argument many CBloggers use to describe Tatum's stratospheric ceiling.
- GMs get extended for executing owners flawed concepts and not doing much else.
Some guys would just fold to the side and put their tail between their legs. I'd rather have him that Okafor (NCAA champ and higher pick) and if I said that 2 years ago, I'd get threatening letters - Hyperbole!