The Internet is a strange place. No matter how completely underwhelming an NBA player is, there will always be supporters of that player scattered around message boards and comment sections, waiting to defend their player’s reputation against “haters”. You cannot call someone a bust without a bunch of angry responses attempting to refute your point. If I said, right now, that Adam Morrison was a bust, I can bet that there would be five comments within an hour telling me how stupid I am and that I just need to look at these cherry-picked stats and that he didn’t get a fair shake in the league. And this is with ADAM MORRISON, the biggest bust ever. Imagine the backlash for players who are at least role-players in the NBA.
Keeping that in mind: Thomas Robinson is a bust, using any commonly accepted definition of the term. There is no way around it. There just isn’t. 23 points is fine, but that doesn’t in any way mean that he is not a bust.