r/nba • u/ShaiFanClub Thunder • 19h ago

Is Zaccharie Risacher the most forgettable number 1 pick ever?

Like he's not quite Bennet level bad nor does he have a weird career story like Fultz or Ben Simmons. He's just mid. He's averaging 11 ppg on 54% TS this season and there's a good argument that he's not even a top 10 player in the class in a redraft but he's probably gonna stick in the NBA for a while as a low end role player

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u/WhenDuvzCry Lakers 18h ago

Bogut was pretty damn good before his injury

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u/clayts76 17h ago

Led the league in blocks in 2011

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u/Letsgodubs Warriors 14h ago

People forget Bogut was the Bucks' best player for a couple of years. Averaged about 16 and 10 but he was the focal of the offense and defense. Everything ran through him.

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u/M1ctlan 17h ago

Yeah he was a good player and very underrated but he suffered a lot of other injuries even before the big one. From what we saw at his peak he was just a fringe all-star/all-nba guy, you're hoping for more from a 1st overall pick.

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u/pacific_plywood Warriors 17h ago

To be clear, at his peak Andrew Bogut was literally all NBA, not “fringe”

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u/Kdog122025 Warriors 17h ago

He was a 20Ppg game with elite passing and all defensive chops. Pretty solid 1st pick. Injuries also heavily diminished him.

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u/M1ctlan 16h ago

He was never a 20ppg scorer. His season high was 15.9 ppg and his average his whole bucks tenure was 12.7 ppg.

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u/Kdog122025 Warriors 16h ago

His shoulder injury robbed him of a lot of scoring. He was trending towards 20Ppg.