Eight weeks into the 2024-25 NBA season, John Hollinger of The Athletic has compiled a list of the 40 biggest disappointments in the league [subscription required]. As is befitting of their relatively quiet and anonymous status among their peers, the Portland Trail Blazers received little mention in the sweeping treatment, save for one exception. Point guard Scoot Henderson, the third-overall pick a couple of years past, got a few paragraphs from the national analyst.

The general presumption was that, after a bumpy rookie year, the third pick in the 2023 draft would be a lot better in Year 2.

I wish I could tell you things look different, but they really don’t. A 30.2 percent 3-point percentage? Wild finishes leading to a 45.7 percent mark inside the arc? Marching up the leaderboard in turnovers per 100 possessions? Yep, we’ve seen this movie before.

The 20-year-old Scoot Henderson still has time on his side, but the Blazers moved him to the bench this season despite being in a rebuild. It hasn’t been much of a decision to keep him there. For a guard drafted for his athleticism, there just haven’t been many positive signs — he has three and-1s all season and has made negligible impact on defense. Can he clean up some of the myriad offensive mistakes and get his career pointed in the right direction, or is this just who he is?

A couple of caveats arise. 45.7% on two-point shots is far higher than the 41.6% rate Henderson put up his rookie season. Also, in part because of injuries, he’s only 16 games and 424 minutes into the year.

But Hollinger is correct that, so far, Henderson’s performance has not trended upward much at all, let alone at the rate hoped for. Stay tuned to see what’s happening mid-year.

LeBron James and the Philadelphia 76’ers were other prominent nominees on Hollinger’s list of disappointments.