Five Most Bust Likely NBA Draft Prospects
By Joe Nardone
Marcus Smart — Oklahoma State
Mar 21, 2014; San Diego, CA, USA; Oklahoma State Cowboys guard Marcus Smart (33) reacts in the first half of a men NBA Draft
Astonishingly, despite it usually being the opposite, Marcus Smart didn’t really hurt his NBA Draft stock by coming back for his sophomore year with Oklahoma State. What he did do, though, was expose a temperament issue the talented guard seems to have and an inability to regularly hit down jumpers with some consistency.
Those are the bullet points everyone already knows. What about the ones no one talks about? Like, you know, Smart’s 11 percent body fat. The idea that people will continue to bang on the build of Jabari Parker, yet completely ignore that Smart is built-in a similar fashion is funny to me. Not funny ha-ha, but like funny what in the Sam Cassell.
Again, like the two prospects before him, that doesn’t mean Smart will end up a bust. Just because a guy has a rounder bottom than others doesn’t automatically equate to him ending up a bust. The idea, at least in theory though, that a guard who relies on athleticism to overcome his inability to improve on a jumper might get a little too chubby, does make him a possible bust prospect.