I don't consider him a superstar yet

Jan 14, 2018
3:32:41pm

donnerstag All-American

he has elite talent no doubt, but he's never played more than 31 games in a season. You don't get the superstar label until you've completed a season and carried a team to the playoffs.

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Which highly-rated athlete did you doubt who turned out to be a superstar?

Game Changer

1/14/18 3:02pm

Joel Embiid, thought he'd be the latest Big Man to get injured repeatedly

ayfan

1/14/18 3:07pm

Absolutely agree - I thought the exact same thing about him.

Game Changer

1/14/18 3:24pm

I still think the jury is still out on that

MwangoleCoug9

1/14/18 3:29pm

I don't consider him a superstar yet

donnerstag

1/14/18 3:32pm

Well, he got drafted in 2014 and had only played 30 games before this year,

Lip Gallagher

1/14/18 4:06pm

Tom Brady

eddog

1/14/18 3:08pm

I wouldn't call him highly rated when he came into the league

CougarCanuck76

1/14/18 3:22pm

Alex Smith

Sandy Lyle

1/14/18 3:08pm

An interesting case, because he was crappy for so many years, then eventually

Game Changer

1/14/18 3:34pm

Luther Wright. Oh, wait... Lebron.

John Doe

1/14/18 3:10pm

Lebron. In HS when he couldn't hit jumpers(which was most of the time), he'd

smokymountainrain

1/14/18 3:11pm

You might be right about Durant. But certainly different circumstances in the

Game Changer

1/14/18 3:32pm

Tatum is on his way. He would be the most recent

bluelands

1/14/18 3:14pm

Why would you doubt Tatum?

Lip Gallagher

1/14/18 4:01pm

3 pt shot didn't go in at a high rate in college

bluelands

1/14/18 5:30pm

Dirk N on Dallas Mavs

Chandler Cougar

1/14/18 3:21pm

For whatever reason I didn't think Anthony Davis was going to be very good.

JuicyJam

1/14/18 3:25pm

I thought he would be a Ben Wallace type piling up rebounds and blocks. No idea

Game Changer

1/14/18 3:27pm

Durant would have been just as good during Karl Malone’s era

Josef K

1/14/18 3:27pm

It's not about the players as much as what the rules allow. In the modern NBA

Game Changer

1/14/18 3:39pm

I disagree. He would have been great. Nba teams didn’t even defend beyond the

Josef K

1/14/18 3:50pm

Jameis Winston. Thought he would be Jamarcus Russell.

Reasonable1

1/14/18 3:30pm

Not a superstar

donnerstag

1/14/18 3:35pm

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