What Makes a Player a ‘Bust’? Brian Windhorst Explains
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So last week a short video caught the attention of our team here at ESPN |
| 0:09.4 | Daily. It was posted to Tik-Tock and it was a bit of a scouting report on Portland Trail Blazers rookie guard Scoot Henderson. |
| 0:17.0 | Now, in the interest of being fair to the user who posted it, I'm not going to name them or play the clip. But in short, the video was not a friendly analysis of Scoot. |
| 0:27.0 | Let me just read a few quotes. |
| 0:29.0 | He's super indecisive with the ball. Like like he's just so unsure if he even wants it. |
| 0:36.4 | Scoot does not use peripheral vision at all. He's always looking around kind of manic. |
| 0:49.0 | But the line that peaked my interest the most was this one. Quote, |
| 0:50.0 | Scooter Henderson is a bust, bro," unquote. |
| 0:54.0 | And to put that quote in context, |
| 1:00.0 | this video was posted in reaction to Portland's 17th game of the season and it was only the eighth game Scoot had played in |
| 1:07.0 | He had missed a couple of weeks last month with an ankle injury |
| 1:09.9 | So it was on that small a sample size, eight games out of the hundred Scoot is expected to play in his MBA career, |
| 1:16.5 | that the label of Bust was already being conferred on to him. |
| 1:20.0 | And sure, Scoot was the number three overall pick in last summer's draft. |
| 1:24.6 | He's expected to develop into the player Portland can build their franchise around. |
| 1:28.9 | He is going to be scrutinized. |
| 1:31.5 | But when it comes to the dreaded B word, this one Tik-Toc user was not alone. |
| 1:37.0 | In a matter of seconds, you could easily find a handful of other videos on social media labeling Scoot as such. |
| 1:43.0 | So the next logical question for me, |
| 1:46.0 | what exactly is going on here? Today, with help from the exceptionally insightful Brian Winhorse, |
| 2:05.0 | we explore exactly that. |
| 2:08.0 | It's a look at the word bust in basketball. |
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