OT: players and their potentials

[Blake]

If there is one thing in sports that saddens and sometimes disgusts me is players that finish their careers having left potential on the table.

Here's a list off the top of my head of a few guys and how much of their god given potential they used, based on athletic and intellectual ability. 100% being that they squeezed every ounce of potential out of themselves.

IMO, of course:

Jordan: 100%

Kareem: 100%

Magic: 100%

Bird: 100%

Duncan: 100%

Iverson: 105%

Kobe: 100%

Shaq: 90%

Roy Tarpley: 25%

Len Bias: 0%

LeBron: 80% (and that 80% still might be enough to make him the goat)

Carmelo: 60%

Parker: 90%

Manu: 100%

Derp Howard: 75%

Durant: 99%

Dirk: 100%

Barkley: 100%

Patrick Ewing: 85%

Who am missing that's currently playing, nearing retirement, but has not lived up to full potential?

[Katherine Robinson]

Lebron doesn't posess superior intellect so he is sitting at about 95%, that extra sliver being unpolished shooting.

[Phillip]

Shaq should be at around 80-85%.

If he would have learned to shoot freethrows at least around a 70% clip, and hit a 15 foot mid-ranger, he would have been the best player ever without question.

[Phillip]

at Len Bias

[King Emmanuel]

Kobe 99
timmy 100
nowitzki 100
garnett 90
shaq 67
vince 60

[HarlemHeat37]

Lebron: 100%
Carmelo: 95%
Howard: 90%
Paul: 95%
Griffin: 90%
Odom: 80%
Bynum: 70%
Amare: 85%
Carter: 85%
Shaq: 90%
Durant: 100%

[HemisfairArena]

Shaq should be at around 80-85%.

If he would have learned to shoot freethrows at least around a 70% clip, and hit a 15 foot mid-ranger, he would have been the best player ever without question.

I agree.... I would put Shaq at about 70% and to add to your point if he had any semblance of a work ethic and kept himself in shape....he would be top 3 at the very least of All Time.

[Phillip]

T-Mac: 60-70%

[spurraider21]

I think Westbrook is at like 65%... dude can be the best defensive point guard of the modern era with his physical tools