Potential Players who never made it big?

[fezzadog]

37 th pick 93/94, instant success and a long, interesting career. Kwame Brown on the other scale

 

[ozguy3825]

Exactly what they said a few years back about Beasley. But as it turns out, Beasley is that classic "tweener" - not enough outside game, especially defensively, to play SF, and too small to play full time PF, so unless they can come off the bench and play a bit of a sparkplug role, they struggle to find a niche in the league. And I am afraid DWill is looking like a Beasley clone in that respect.

but i think player like thatcan fit with teams like LA where they have the big centre and a good back court, just a bit of speed and hustle at either sf or pf.

 

[Verse1]

Vin Baker? Im pretty sure he was going to be big then he literally got "Big"

 

[Harsha_12]

Hasheem Thabeet?

 

[fezzadog]

richard dumas

 

[ozballer23]

Thabeet has been a flop!

 

[muzikandme]

yeah imagine if he had of fallen to the thunder that year with the 3rd pick instead of harden

 

[BruzDB]

yeah imagine if he had of fallen to the thunder that year with the 3rd pick instead of harden

How ironic that they now have Thabeet and not Harden

 

[brentus777]

Christian Laettner, most potential of any college player I think, just couldn't transfer it to the big time, he was solid
Don't get me wrong.

 

[Quicksilver]

Yeah a lot like J. J. Reddick

Rumors are Celtics are slightly interested in him with the Jet failing

 

[ozballer23]

OJ Mayo and John Wall, not busts, but haven't lived up to the "Hype". Greg Oden.... enough said.

 

[muzikandme]

Christian Laettner, most potential of any college player I think, just couldn't transfer it to the big time, he was solid
Don't get me wrong.

Yeah he has to be one of the biggest ones, made the dream team for crying out loud when he was still in college if im not mistaken?

 

[Awoj21]

Glen Robinson

 

[muzikandme]

OJ Mayo and John Wall, not busts, but haven't lived up to the "Hype". Greg Oden.... enough said.

Yeah i remember hearing about OJ Mayo taking on players already in the nba and showing them up alot like what was said about Lance Stephenson

 

[fezzadog]

mj... the second time around

 

[Awoj21]

mj... the second time around

Really?
At his age I think any team would take 20, 6 and 4 per game

 

[Matty4292]

OJ Mayo and John Wall, not busts, but haven't lived up to the "Hype". Greg Oden.... enough said.

John Wall was living up to the Hype before his Knee injury. 2 seasons averaging 16 & 8 is pretty good.

 

[ozballer23]

John Wall was living up to the Hype before his Knee injury. 2 seasons averaging 16 & 8 is pretty good.

His hype was him being a scoring leader in the nba. Prior to injury he was just an average role player.

 

[Matty4292]

His hype was him being a scoring leader in the nba. Prior to injury he was just an average role player.

His hype going in was his passing skills.

I wouldn't exactly call a point guard who, in his rookie year, averaged more points & more assists than Chris Paul, Derrick Rose & Russell Westbrook in their rookie seasons an average role player.

 

[ozballer23]

His hype going in was his passing skills.

I wouldn't exactly call a point guard who, in his rookie year, averaged more points & more assists than Chris Paul, Derrick Rose & Russell Westbrook in their rookie seasons an average role player.

Guess we read different reports on him