Yea he fits the role player archetype quite well. Unless he takes a leap this was kind of his floor outcome, but at least he’s still somewhat useful. Solid defense/length/shooting wings can always find minutes somewhere.

Hawks finally got a number one pick and it’s from the most MID draft year ever lmao

The Danny Green special

Nah, 6th-7th probably.

I could see him being like a Joe Smith

He could still develop into like a 5th starter. Which admittedly isn’t what you want from a #1 pick either.

Ironic that the most forgettable can never be named

Thats because other dudes played decades ago.

Even hof players of the past generations are less known today compared to random role players.

More people know about Kyle Kuzma than Paul Arizin or Bob petitt

List of number 1 picks since 2000

Kenyon Martin: All star

Kwame Brown: Notorious bust

Yao Ming: HOF

Lebron: Future HOFer

Dwight Howard: HOF

Andrew Bogut: All star

Andrea Bargnani

Greg Oden: Notorious bust

Derrick Rose: MVP

Blake Griffin: All star

John Wall: All star

Kyrie Irving: All star

AD: Future HOF

Anthony Bennett: Notorious bust

Andrew Wiggins: All star

KAT: All star

Ben Simmons: All star

Markelle Fultz: Notorious bust

DeAndre Ayton:

Zion: All star

Anthony Edwards: At this rate probably a future HOFer

Cade Cunningham: All star

Paolo Banchero: All star

Wemby: Probably a future HOFer

Flagg: Probably an all star next year and good bet to be a future HOFer

Imo only Bargnani is similar to Risacher at the moment. Maybe Bogut Ayton and Wiggins but I think they peaked higher

“Joe Smith” is the most obvious bust name in existence

He’ll never be truly forgotten due to the scandal

Those late 2000s-early 2010s Atlanta Hawks team had so many generic named guys like this. Joe Smith, Josh Smith, Marvin Williams, Josh Powell, Jason Collins, Joe Johnson, etc. Those teams were so boring lol

No, he was pretty good.

Timberwolves fan here, I will never forget that name

He was the biggest bust before Anthony Bennett.

Who could forget a major bust nicknamed the Kandi man???

I hear about him being a bust all the time. Especially him blowing off Kareem

He publicly wouldn’t let Kareem mentor him. He was on staff.

Kid thought he knew better

And that was the draft with Dirk, Vince Carter, Paul Pierce, and Rashard Lewis!

I barely even hear about him in bust conversations lol

He was the poster boy for #1 pick busts for a long time.

Thsi is the answer bec6he is the only person in this thread I had never heard of and had to actually look up.

Martin was drafted over Bob McAdoo and Julius Erving: McAdoo had been drafted #1 by the Virginia Squires in the ABA draft a month prior; Erving had signed with the Squires the year before. Martin was also the #3 pick in the ABA draft.

Honorable mention to 1989 #1 overall Pervis Ellison.

Portland and drafts pick that are riddled with injuries… how appropriate

Yall sleeping on Sihugo Green 👀

I’ll have you know Frequency Vibrations went first overall in 2k and averaged 50 points per game in his 2nd season. Zaccharie has no excuse.

No, I don’t think I will

Bosh wanted LMA. They were good friends. And our FO still worried they wouldn’t work together. The idea of Bargs being the next Dirk was tantalizing.

God how I wish we would have gotten LaMarcus. Bargs wasn’t the worst player ever. He could stroke it and he was a surprisingly good man defender. But he was bad none the absolute worst help defender I have ever seen.

And when you’re a 7 footer, you need to be good at help defending the players at the rim. And he just couldn’t do it.

I forgot what year of NBA2K it was, but you could always trade for Bargnani on the cheap and then develop him into a ridiculous scorer. Was oddly one of my favorite players to play with after you upped his game.

How many #1 Picks are below average role players in the first 2 years of their career that end up turning it around?

Nigerian names have the advantage of being fun to say so they stick in your brain. Risacher is whatever

He’s etched in history as a massive bust who blew off Kareem

Kandi Man ain’t forgotten!

i hear about him being a massive bust semi-often

From “Never Nervous” to “Out of Service” Pervis Ellison. Guy had two memorable nicknames at least.

Never Nervous is definitely remembered by people old enough to remember 1980s college hoops

Out of service Pervis is a pretty well known nickname

Kent Benson is probably best known for giving Larry Bird so much shit at Indiana that he left the school and enrolled at Indiana State.

And then Bird made a point of wrecking his shit in the NBA whenever he played him.

But that’s deep trivia. It’s a better pick than the others being suggested.

The only thing he is known for is getting punched in the face by Kareem

My goat Anthony Bennett lost Horse to an old man journalist, and then complained he lost because of his small hands.

The dude had no sauce, or oz. of dog in him. No one compares to my guy

There’s a difference between ebing the worst pick and more forgettable

the only thing i remember him from is shooting a 3 with 10 seconds left up 2 instead of holding the ball

Not for me. PRIMO, PASTA AND SAUWSE

This 20yo kid is above avg defender and having a shooting slump while having injuries.. omg, end of the world

Bennett is memorable because he was so bad.

Risacher isn’t good or bad enough to be memorable. He just floats in this irrelevant space of average.