So many can’t miss prospects don’t pan out. Look at the 76ers. Okafor, fultz and noel. If noel was not hurt he would have been number 1 pick.
No one said Noel was a can't miss prospect. The general thought on him was that he would be a superb defender, but his offense was always going to struggle. He was also hurt so you really don't know what might have been but for the injuries. And just because someone goes or might go #1 doesn't mean he was a can't miss prospect. All drafts are not created equal. As for Fultz, he is hurt and basically has been his entire career. 33 games in his first 2 seasons isn't exactly a lot of game action. Who knows what might have been had he not injured his shoulder. Okafor didn't pan out and he was pretty heavily hyped entering the draft, but he is definitely the exception not the rule.
It is certainly more common than you are making it out to be, and you seem to have an excuse for every guy that doesn't make it. Jabari Parker was a can't miss and he is certainly a bust. Yet, the reason he is a bust doesn't seem to be the knee injuries you mentioned. It is that is absolutely abysmal at defense and never had any interest in improving his. he has even publicly commented on this. Is your belief that his knee injuries hurt his brain and made him not want to play defense?
Andrew Wiggins was also a can't miss prospect with a whole year long talk of teams "riggin for wiggins." Obviously he is also a huge bust. Also, believe it or not Lonzo Ball was considered a superstar prospect by Chad Ford, in the same category as Fultz. Maybe Ford isn't your cup of tea, I think his tiers are a bit silly, but everyone seems to cite them here and they have very few people put in that category.
Then of course there is Okafor. No way to try to spin this, there have been plenty of guys that have been labeled as future superstars by Ford that just haven't panned out.
Parker basically entered the league injured playing just 25 games as a rookie, got better across the board and played 76 games in year 2, in year 3 when he was still just 21 he was basically averaging 20/6/3 with a steal and a 56.3 TS% (36.5% from 3). He played just 51 games because he sadly got hurt again and has never the same. Seems strange that you don't think the injuries altered his career.
Wiggins has a career average of 19.4 ppg with 4.2 rpg and 2.1 apg. I have hard time calling those stats a bust even though he has seemingly regressed a bit as the talent around him has gotten better. While he clearly isn't a franchise level talent, if he continues to put up stats like that he will have a very long career and any team would gladly take those numbers.
Ball is currently hurt after spending a bunch of his rookie year injured. He has already played 45 less games than Tatum as an example. Do you not think injuries affect a player's development, especially early on in their careers?
You honestly believe Parker is a terrible defensive player (and expresses public interest in not playing it) because he got injured? Respectfully, that just doesn't make any sense.
Also, you have to be one of the only people in the world right now that doesn't consider Wiggins a huge bust. From the Ringer "To explain to his followers just how talented Wiggins was, veteran college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman claimed Wiggins would have been the no. 1 player in the vaunted 2007 high school class that included Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, Kevin Love, Blake Griffin, Eric Gordon, and O.J. Mayo." Your comment that any team would take Wiggins is one of the more ill-advised comments I have seen you make. You realize that Wiggins is shooting 39% from the field to get his 19 points and taking over 16 shots a game?
To put this in perspective "Wiggins’s sudden inability to convert 2-point field goals isn’t just bad, it’s on the edge of history. Among qualifying players, Wiggins’s 2-point field goal percentage thus far this season ranks among the 150 worst figures ever, which doesn’t sound too horrific until you consider that only seven of those performances occurred after 1975. "
Not only would I argue that not every team would want those numbers, I would argue that very teams would actually allow those numbers to even happen on their squad. It is downright awful.
I gotta ask man, where do you come up with some of stuff you post? I see you making some very well informed arguments sometimes where you use advanced statistics and data. Then other times you get in an argument, dig in on the argument, and post something I may have said when I was 12 and looked at stats on the back of a basketball card and saw a guy score 19 points a game (World B Free is incredible!). What is the deal with that?