The difference is Jimmer doesn't have an ounce of the athleticism that Rose or Irving have so it was fairly easy to predict he wouldn't have the same success in the NAB as he did in college. Trob's measurables were virtually identical to BG's at the combine.
Trob needs 25+ minutes a game. BG, Davis, Amare, Duncan, and every successful rookie/big who has star capability werethrown to the wolves from day 1 and given a fairly significant role on the team. Even Wes Johnson got 2 full years as a starter and 25+ minutes a game to showcase his talent. He busted obviously, but at least Minny found out what they really had with him.
I'm just sick and tired of how much this team screws up the development of our young players. Even Jimmer, who everyone left for dead last season, has been amongst the most effective shooters/scorers in the NBA this season and he only gets 13 MPG. Mark Price reincarnated might be sitting on our bench right now and we're not letting him play because of Aaron Brooks. You can give up on Trob if you want, but I'll wait and see Trob given a real opportunity to play before I throw him out to pasture. He has far too much potential and he showed way too much talent at Kansas to give up on him way too soon.
Thing is, Jimmer struggled tremendously last season, but you did see flashes of court vision and certainly flashes of his shooting ability. TRob, who's best skill is really rebounding ... in 20 minutes in this game grabbed 3 rebounds. In the previous game he grabbed 5 in the same number of minutes, mostly in garbage time though. And if not rebounding I don't know what else you could have possibly seen from him so far this season, other than turning the ball over and taking terrible shots.
I'm not writing TRob off as a bust, but I do think it was incredibly silly to draft him when we just spent the previous offseason signing Hayes and then also signing JT. I also think that in his limited minutes he hasn't shown me anything that would make me bench Hayes in favor of playing him either (if I was trying to win games). The guy isn't even considered in the race for rookie of the year thus far, and probably won't be this whole season. Not very becoming of a guy who many thought would be picked #2, and who himself thought should have been picked #1. Meyers Leonard isn't getting any plays run for him and he's contributing a whole lot more than TRob is by doing the very things we expect TRob to do.