You were wrong. Say so.

[Kblaze8855]

Without qualifiers. Without excuses that make you less wrong. I don’t want your additional context. Just tell us something you said/believed that turned out to be incorrect and own it.

I’ll start.


Im nearly sure I said Kevin Durant was gonna be between Keith Vanhorn and Rashard Lewis.

You go.

[8Ball]

I privately thought to myself during Luka's rookie season that he was overrated and wouldn't accomplish much.

[Real Men Wear Green]

There was a point guard whose name began with the letter "M" from UConn that I would have drafted over Rondo. I can't even remember his name.

[FultzNationRISE]

Years ago I emphatically insisted Lebron would not become a 10 time conference champion, a billionaire, the league’s all time leading scorer, and the most universally loved and respected athlete in human history.


I was wrong.

[SouBeachTalents]

I remember thinking there was zero percent chance LeBron would ever come close to living up to the hype he was receiving in high school. I didn’t understand why this high school kid was getting such over the top coverage, and that once he did make the league he’d be, at best, a fringe all-star.

I also thought after 2019 Curry would never win FMVP the rest of his career.

[highwhey]

i thought Ayton wouldn't be as bad as Kwame Brown.

[j3lademaster]

"If Michael Porter Jr stays healthy he'll be the prize of the 2018 draft". Which, I honestly didn't even really go out on a limb on. You're telling me if a super skilled and quick 6'10 guy can stay healthy he'll be good at basketball? get outta here.

I thought Andre Drummond would be an Amare type. He just didn't seem to have the motor back in college to be a 14 rpg guy, and Amare didn't have a midrange jumper until about year 3 of his career. Can't tell if he had a j in high school or not since, either way, dude dunked everything and didn't need it.

[1987_Lakers]

Never in my wildest dreams did I think J.J. Redick would have a better career than Adam Morrison. I remember the big debate between those players in college and thought Morrison would be a better pro.

I wanted Adam Morrison to be the next Bird.

[tontoz]

I thought Chris Paul wouldn't be that good in the NBA. :oldlol:

[j3lademaster]

I thought Chris Paul wouldn't be that good in the NBA. :oldlol:Thought or hoped? Maybe you hoped and remembered wrong lol. Watching him play in college was what made me hate him his entire career.

[j3lademaster]

Never in my wildest dreams did I think J.J. Redick would have a better career than Adam Morrison. I remember the big debate between those players in college and thought Morrison would be a better pro.

I wanted Adam Morrison to be the next Bird.I never got the Bird comparisons. I thought he'd be like a very watered down version of Kevin Durant(think like 22 ppg), at least offensively, but I guess we didn't have KD back then to compare him to.

[tontoz]

Thought or hoped? Maybe you hoped and remembered wrong lol. Watching him play in college was what made me hate him his entire career.


Small with very short arms. I didn't think his game would translate that well to the NBA. I thought his lack of size would be a significant handicap.

[ShawkFactory]

It's still early so I'm not willing to admit complete defeat yet but I thought Jalen Green would be better.

Dude sucks at the moment.

[Indian guy]

Watching Ingram in 2019 on LA I never thought he'd amount to anything. Simply didn't seem like he had the requisite body for it. Just seemed slow and weak.

[StrongLurk]

I thought LaMelo Ball would be a bust and worse than Lonzo.

[Axe]

Not about him in the world of basketball but i used to think kobe was gonna have a son. Reality begged to differ tho..

[┌∩┐(﹒︠益﹒︡)┌∩┐]

I haven't been wrong about anything

[mr4speed]

Without qualifiers. Without excuses that make you less wrong. I don’t want your additional context. Just tell us something you said/believed that turned out to be incorrect and own it.

I’ll start.


Im nearly sure I said Kevin Durant was gonna be between Keith Vanhorn and Rashard Lewis.

You go.

I watched Jason Kidd play in college and was doubtful he would have a good career in the NBA. I was wrong.

[Axe]

I also thought that stephen curry was capable of leading kelly '> klay' oubre jr. to the playoffs. Yet i was wrong.

[Full Court]

I thought the Bulls were going to the conference finals last year.

[NBAGOAT]

I thought that Sixers team with horford was going win the title. To make myself feel better, Zach lowe thought the same

[Honor Boost]

Years ago I emphatically insisted Lebron would not become a 10 time conference champion, a billionaire, the league’s all time leading scorer, and the most universally loved and respected athlete in human history.


I was wrong.

I threw a chuckle.

[BarberSchool]

In middle school, I genuinely believed that the following players would be perennial all stars in the hall of Fame with multiple titles each:

Tracey McGrady
Allen Iverson

And I was sure that every single title Duncan won would be his last, and that the rings he did win were flukes.

On draft night, I thought my Bulls made a huge mistake, and should have drafted Michael Beasley instead of Derrick Rose.

I thought Dante Exum would be really damn good.

[Bawkish]

In 2009 I thought i was going to be Bron stan in perpetuity

[Wally450]

I thought that JR Smith was better than Klay Thompson. Yikes.

[Legend248]

I thought lequeen female dog james was a goat. I was wrong, he just looks like one

[CurryOverLebron]

Player developments always catch me off guard.

For example the players who depend on athleticism don't really stand out until a few seasons into league. It's why 2023 Ja Morant looks like most athletic point guard in NBA history but didn't look half as athletic his rookie season. It's also probably why people were caught off guard by Lebron's greatness.

[Clifton]

I thought the Celtics should have kept Delonte West instead of Rondo. I thought Rondo having the ball in his hands so much was not the best path forward for a team with Pierce, Allen, and KG on it. I wanted the ball in those guys' hands instead and thought West would be a tough roleplayer and knock down shooter to complement their stars.

I actually think it's true that those Celtics teams would have been better without Rondo and that he was an overrated point guard in general. There were whole quarters when KG and Ray were nothing more than spot-up shooters, meanwhile everything had to funnel through this ponderous non-shooter who thought he was the most important player on the team.

But obviously the Delonte West part did not age well.

Also: I'm pretty sure I thought both KD and Adam Morrison would become Antawn Jamison in terms of impact. I never saw it coming that KD would be able to handle the ball that well against pros; I thought he was just advanced and going up against physically inferior competition. Turns out he was a top-10 all-timer from almost the moment he stepped foot in the NBA. oh well. :/

[baudkarma]

I was living in San Antonio while Popovich was GM and Bob Hill was head coach. On the day David Robinson returned from injury, Pop fired Hill and named himself head coach. My thoughts at the time were "That's a really spineless move. I bet this clown will be gone by the start of next season."

[HoopologyPhD]

I thought ISH was better than RealGM.

[RRR3]

Player developments always catch me off guard.

For example the players who depend on athleticism don't really stand out until a few seasons into league. It's why 2023 Ja Morant looks like most athletic point guard in NBA history but didn't look half as athletic his rookie season. It's also probably why people were caught off guard by Lebron's greatness.
:biggums:

LeBron was expected to be great since he was a literal child.

[GOBB]

Without qualifiers. Without excuses that make you less wrong. I don’t want your additional context. Just tell us something you said/believed that turned out to be incorrect and own it.

I’ll start.


Im nearly sure I said Kevin Durant was gonna be between Keith Vanhorn and Rashard Lewis.

You go.

Add Ben Simmons to your post. Because he’s poo poo!!!!

[red1]

kobe was NOT a rapist



never was.



I'm sorry.

[red1]

I said lebron was the second best player of all-time back in 2009.


I was wrong. he is the GOAT.




I'm sorry.

[PeroAntic]

I never thought Andrew Wiggins would amount to anything more than Rudy Gay level career, but he managed to win a ring as a key piece in a historically difficult era and opponents. Props to him, he became a fantastic defender after being a joke on that end during his Wolves tenure.

[BarberSchool]

I was living in San Antonio while Popovich was GM and Bob Hill was head coach. On the day David Robinson returned from injury, Pop fired Hill and named himself head coach. My thoughts at the time were "That's a really spineless move. I bet this clown will be gone by the start of next season."
How many times had you seen Pop speak publicly in an interview before that rash judgement ?

[Full Court]

I never thought Kelly Oubre Jr. would be better than Klay Thompson.....but it happened. :confusedshrug:

[Smook A.]

When I first joined ISH in 2014, I'd go back and forth with Milbuck about Giannis, the Rockets, and all things Harden. I'm sure anyone who was here regularly around that time remembers the beef we had

Anyway, because I used to hate Milbuck, I would call Giannis trash and would say that he would amount to nothing more than a role player. To be fair, no one could've predicted how good he'd become. I remember Milbuck making a thread saying that Giannis had MVP and ATG-level potential, and I just spammed the thread with laughing gifs. Crazy how he predicted that in 2014-15.

I turned out to be so so wrong about Giannis. I'm glad I was though because his story is great and he truly is an ATG player.

[j3lademaster]

When I first joined ISH in 2014, I'd go back and forth with Milbuck about Giannis, the Rockets, and all things Harden. I'm sure anyone who was here regularly around that time remembers the beef we had

Anyway, because I used to hate Milbuck, I would call Giannis trash and would say that he would amount to nothing more than a role player. To be fair, no one could've predicted how good he'd become. I remember Milbuck making a thread saying that Giannis had MVP and ATG-level potential, and I just spammed the thread with laughing gifs. Crazy how he predicted that in 2014-15.

I turned out to be so so wrong about Giannis. I'm glad I was though because his story is great and he truly is an ATG player.That was very wholesome lol.

I was sold on Giannis in a thread made by Euroleague when Giannis was only like 17. It was the weirdest thing because usually people become huge fans of players they've predicted right, but Euroleague straight up turned on him when Giannis was becoming a respectable NBA player in his second or third year.

[Smook A.]

That was very wholesome lol.

I was sold on Giannis in a thread made by Euroleague when Giannis was only like 17. It was the weirdest thing because usually people become huge fans of players they've predicted right, but Euroleague straight up turned on him when Giannis was becoming a respectable NBA player in his second or third year.

Ahh I remember Euroleague the poster :oldlol: He was always angry for some reason, particularly about Giannis. He was also weirdly obsessed with Vassilis Spanoulis

[warriorfan]

Coming out of college I thought DMC was going to be a dominant hall of famer.

I thought Anthony Randolph was going to be the next big thing after some flashes of greatness and then a dominant summer league. (This was a bit out of desperation because the Warriors were so bad for so long though)

I was hyped on warriors landing Wiseman. Thought he was going to be at least a poor man’s david robinson.

This wasn’t egregious but I thought Derrick Rose was a bit overrated at first but he put on some dominant performances before he got injured and it changed my mind.

Ties into the Wiseman thing but I wasnt very high on Lamelo. I want to say at the time that I would have picked Wiseman over him even though it would have been close.

I thought Haliburton was a great pick where he was drafted at first but didn’t know he would be this good.

[Dbrog]

Thought Wiseman would turn the warriors into a dynasty similar to the Curry-KD days again.

Thought Oden would be better than Durant

Thought OJ Mayo was gonna be the next Kobe or AI :lol

Thought Shaq was too focused on media and being lazy in the gym to ever become truly an alltime great

[Baller789]

I never thought Giannis would be NBA champ as the best player.

[Chuckbe]

Thought Gobert was a good player, but he's actually trash without Mitchell carrying him.

[Reggie43]

I thought Kemp and Dale Davis would make the 2001 Blazers a Superteam...

[baudkarma]

How many times had you seen Pop speak publicly in an interview before that rash judgement ?

I think I'd heard him doing a radio interview once. Was not impressed.

[Wally450]

I thought Rondo would instantly make the Mavs a Finals contender when he was traded there in 2014.

[sdot_thadon]

Early on I pegged Giannis as not developing enough skills to have mvp level impact, I was way off. Also thought Durant was too skinny and weak to ever dominate to the degree he has. Even more off.

[Baller789]

I also thought Kahwi would go the Tim Duncan route and be a Spur for life.

[BigShotBob]

I was very, very high on Michael Beasley and OJ Mayo. OJ Mayo should have been what Kyrie is now and Michael Beasley I thought was going to be a franchise level talent

[Axe]

Was expecting tacko fall to make a significant impact with the celtics. But it turned out he wasn't useful on the team.

[hateraid]

I was very, very high on Michael Beasley and OJ Mayo. OJ Mayo should have been what Kyrie is now and Michael Beasley I thought was going to be a franchise level talent

A lot of people missed the mark on that. SLAM magazine hype

[Chick Stern]

I thought Lonzo was going to be transformative, especially after the rookie league.
Bron and leg injuries have ruined that.

[Street Hunger]

I thought Kenneth Faried was going to have a better NBA career. Not as a star, but as a great role player. But he fell out of the league.

[1987_Lakers]

I was very, very high on Michael Beasley and OJ Mayo. OJ Mayo should have been what Kyrie is now and Michael Beasley I thought was going to be a franchise level talent

I remember a poster with the username OJ_Mayo or something like that in this forum when I first joined, before he was even drafted. The hype was real.

[Pointguard]

I though Joe Johnson would be an all time great.

I thought Wiggins would be a perrenial all star.

[dankok8]

I thought Blake Griffin would be a league MVP and one of the greatest PF's of all time when he was a rookie.

[Jasper]

I thought CP3 would have at least 2-3 chips / boy was I wrong.

On another note I thought Patrick poopsie was a bad as$/ but was I wrong he is a fat as$.

[L.Kizzle]

I thought Ricky Davis & Darius Miles would be stars.
I remember Ben Wallace earlier in his career in Washington and Orlando. Thought he'd end his career like Popeye Jones or Bo Outlaw.

[Chuckbe]

Back when LeBron had 4 MVPs, I thought he would easily end up with the most, but he never got another one.