He’s not a savior of the franchise now, hes unreliable to take us to the promise land and hes completely injury prone. Their is no denying that. I defended him when he had that first injury, but the second one, he had no one touch him and he still broke his knee. So if that isn’t a injury prone bust idk what is

The point people forget is that Greg has already performed as well as many veteran big men, save for the foul trouble which he was already working himself out of. His shot percentage, his defense and his rebounding can’t be discounted unless you’re driven by nothing but emotion in your evaluation and have already decided he’s a bust and aren’t mentally flexible enough to admit you’re lack of omniscience.

The idea that his injuries – which aren’t connected, and therefore can’t logically be called a trend or even something that could have been foreseen – can be the one determining factor as to whether or not he’s successful at the NBA level is absurd. Unrelated means unrelated and therefore not caused by one another or indicative of each other at all.

You can’t predict that he’ll ever have a major injury again based only on the past. You also can’t predict that Kevin Durant will never have a major injury during his career. It is always easy to focus on the negative when that is all you see at the present, but frankly I think that you have to be very mentally lazy to discount all that Greg has done and is capable of doing when he is healthy and anyone capable of performing like he did early this season would never be considered a bust, regardless of average points scored in comparison to Durant because Durant certainly can’t defend like Oden and never will.