pepe1991 wrote:basketballRob wrote:I think this board still heavily viewed Dipo as not a future all star before he left, I guess it's natural to see players who they are at the time.pepe1991 wrote:
Dipo averaged 18-4-4 in second year and was only rookie who was all nba rookie first team for Orlando in whole rebuild.
Whole board knew that Oladipo trade was mistake, some of people just felt need to defend every dumb move team has ever done. But yea, 23 years old in trade for 27 y.o ( at least ) Ibaka ,who was pending UFA was always going to backfire. Especially when you give up lottery pick as well ( who turned into better player than Ibaka anyway )
Just like Bamba that's only had 3 or 4 lobs to him all season and averages 14 pts 11 rebs 3 blks per 36 mpg. He's doing a pretty decent job in his first 34 games and most here argue he's not good.
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Dipo had 11 - 20+ ppg games in rookie year.
Among them he had 30 points,14 assists,9 rebounds game against Knicks in rookei year.
He also had triple double in rookie year ( 26-10-10) .
He,according to him, needed to play along side star such a Westbrook is to take his game to next level. Would it ever happen if he stayed with Magic ? I guess not? Not like we can know.
If we had no other centers on the team, no Fournier, no Ross, Bamba would be averaging a double double.
Dipo averaged 16 pts per 36 mpg his rookie year and Bamba averages 14. I still stand by my prediction that Bamba will be a 20 point scorer in his career.
