Of all the NBA Busts, which one(s) did you think would have a great career?

does greg oden count?

 

Thought Morrison would've been better as well. Also think Livingston would've benefited from a couple years under Coach K if he had pursued a collegiate career.

 

Terrence Williams

 

Yi and Eddie Griffin I agree with. Yi came out with so much hype, I think from watching him a little he just didn't have the passion. His skillset was still good.

I also wonder if Kwame Brown didn't have Jordan completely embarrass him at a young age, if that didn't stop his career from going anywhere.

 

I thought Danny Fortson was going to be the second coming of Charles Barkley. He had a decent career, but certainly never played at anything approaching the level of Barkley. I also thought a lot of Marcus Fizer, who did not have a good career.

Those assessments led me to the conclusion I would not make for a good NBA scout.

 

I expected big things from Eddie Griffin, but he never got his head together.

RIP, dude.

 

jimmer fredette

 

I thought Gerald Green was going to be great. He had all the tools to be an all-star, but slipped in the draft to 17 and never put it together in Boston.

 

Harold Miner. I didn't think he'd ever live up to the "Baby Jordan" moniker, but I didn't think he'd up being so awful. I thought he had the talent to at least average around 14 points a game with a couple of exiting dunks per game. I didn't think think he'd peak as a slam-dunk champ for his entire short career.

 

livingston looked really special, injuries were ashame

morrison showed flashes his rookie year, if he had a coach with full confidence in him to let him run some isos and give him rope, i think he would've developed into a good off the bench instant scoring guy. But after tearing his acl and falling under brown's dog house, his confidence and rhythm never recoveeed. He did show flasehs his rookie year with a couple 25+ games, i remember 30 on bruce bowen even

Gerald Green....could shoot, jump out of the gym...just didn't have the mind for it, but it was interesting that last year after so long he made some eap to being a role player so maybe its not too late for him

 

Joe Smith. The 1st pick of the draft. Long, ran the floor well, good hands, nice touch on this shots and blocked shots.

I remember Rick Adelman raving about his game. How, if we loved Chris Webber, we'd love Joe Smith. Basically a sure thing.

He had an ironic nickname. "Not Your Average Joe". But, that's what he ended up being for his career the NBA, an average Joe.

 

I think you overrate Shaun Livingston. There were times he looked like a special player in the making (I was on the bandwagon for a while), but usually he was passive and disappeared for long stretches at a time. He was a tease and didn't have the motor to be a reliable player over a long stretch of games. Predictably, after he went down people overrated his prospects if he had stayed healthy. Same for Jason Williams from Duke, who had a disappointing rookie season.

For me, seeing Morrison in 2-3 NBA games is all it took to conclude he didn't have it.

I thought Jeff Green would be better.

At Kansas State, Michael Beasley didn't display much flakiness and instability that I could see. I had him pegged as ROTY.

I thought Jonny Flynn had a bright future. Swing and a miss.

 

Swift, Luke Jackson, and Bogut. I thought Bogut could reach Robinson status.

 

It's not fair to call Livingston a bust. He was a high schooler, who was just starting to figure it out in his 3rd year when he basically had a career ending injury. Same with Greg Oden, he was clearly at least a good NBA center in the brief time he had, never had a chance to develop.


Adam Morrison had bust written all over him, college volume shooters (Fredette,Morrison,Kemba) with no true NBA position almost always fail. Same goes for obscene athletes with no work ethic and a deficient IQ (Swift, Gerald Green)


Kenyon Martin for me. He still ended up being a good NBA player, Jason Kidd made him look better than he actually was. He had the tools be a great PF.

 

if he kept practicing his hook shots and footwork he would of been a decent center