"Matt!"

Yeah, I'd just like to chime in and say that I am OLDER than Darko.

And I'll be suiting up for my high school squad this winter. If he's that unready for the NBA he can come play for The Lions.

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Locke

So I guess I have to add this ---> <--- damn smiley everytime I say something sarcastic or people will think I'm serious.

BG7

Darko will suck. He is getting a whole minute a gme and hasnt scored a point. Damn he sucks pretty darn bad. He is a bust. Lets judge him on this season when he hasnt played even half of a game (24 min) in the nba. Come on guys all judge him on his 17 career minutes. In those minutes he leade the NBA in blocks and steal for 48 minutes fyi. But like you guys said he is done because of his 1st 17 career minutes.

jvanbusk

No. My point is, the Pistons organization feels that Darko will be the better player in the future. Carmelo will be better right now, but Darko could be a good that in the future leads the team to a championship. Obviously the Pistons feel that Darko will be better than Melo in the future, if they didn't why would they pick him?

HKF

If Darko were on the Nuggets he would be starting, if Carmelo were on the Pistons there is no guarantee he would be getting minutes either.

One reason = defense. Tayshaun Prince plays a lot of D. I don't know if Larry Brown would have given Melo the starting job off the bat, in fact I highly doubt it.

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Premier

What, you guy's don't think he'll be better than Wilt is rookie season. C'mon. He's already 18. He doesn't have that much more years left in him

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jvanbusk

It would be a close call, but I tend to agree with you on this one. I do think that Melo would be the first player off the bench.

As far as Darko starting, I don't know. I'd like to think he'd start over Camby, but I really don't think so.

bananas

You never know on these boards.

Btw lets just merge these weekly "When is Darko going to play, why isnt he playing, he's a bust" threads and save some space. Or make a sticky at the top explaining why he isnt...

PistonFAN81

C'mon guys....it has only been the first couple of months of the season and already there is a Darko is a bust post, I mean look at some of the other people who came into this league in their first year and didn't even do anything, and think about how good they are, I mean Darko hasn't even played that much, so give him that at least...

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rainman

first of all i doubt many of you guys remember sam bowie.he shouldnt have been drafted ahead of jordan,obviously,but the blazers had drexler so their thinking was they needed to take a big man, bowie was a talented player he just had a slew of injuries.as for darko i think he is somewhere between clueless about the nba game and not getting a fair chance to show what he can do.you cant get anything done by getting a minute per game,half the time they are running out the clock and dont even want to shoot the ball.he is still a young talented athlete with excellant potential,a 7-5 wingspan and an agressive nature.sounds like nothing has changed since draft day.i do agree he isnt playing for a guy who likes to play rookies,the only coach worse for that would be george karl.

TheHeff

How soon we forget....how could you ever forget Ricky C

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fear the fro

No, here are the facts.

Jermaine O'Neal: 4.1 ppg, 2.8 rpg, .2 apg in 10.2 minutes

Rashard Lewis: 2.4 ppg, 1.3 rpg, .2 apg in 7.3 minutes

Tracy McGrady: 7.0 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.5 apg in 18.4 minutes

I'm not saying that Darko will eventually be as good as any of those guys are not (although I certainly hope he will) because to be honest all I know about his game is what I've read on nbadraft.net and the sports section of my newspaper. But I do know that is foolish to proclaim a high school player a bust based on his first season, let alone his first 17 minutes.

And, to be honest, I don't think there's any rookie other than Lebron who would be starting for us (Carmelo's stats are nicer than Tayshaun's but he is the #1 option in Denver whereas Tay is the #3 or 4 here. There's was a post about this a while back.)

Basically, although I would of course like to see Darko be more productive, I'm just glad our team is in a position where we don't even have to think about shoving an 18 year old into our starting lineup.

Austin Kent

Well nothing is here to prove that you DON'T have two weiners? Maybe you do but nothing is saying that you don't so I will assume you do. DOUBLE WEINER BOY!!!!

lol. FREAK. j/k

You can't assume someone is a bust because they aren't great, granted, you can't assume someone is great if they play 2.4 MPG. I don't know about you but if I was a GM I wouldn't be to pissed to have Darko on my team.

Seven

The other thing to remember is that not only is Darko way to young and still trying to adjust and learn the NBA , he has also trying to learn ENGLISH and adjust to being in another freakin country.

He is a damn KID in a different country where people don't speak his language. Lay off him.

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11.3 lane agility (faster than T.J. Ford or Carmelo)
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rainman

i agree totally as a matter of fact my frustration, or is it impatience,is with larry brown,darko could be the next larry bird for all we know he hasnt done anything to prove he's not.