Players that peaked one season then went back to being normal the next?

[Braincells]

Andrew Bynum averaged 19/12/2 in 2011-2012, made the all-star team and was considered the top center in the league. His knees couldn't hold up and he played a grand total of 26 games the following 2 seasons.

[Heavincent]

Tyreke Evans peaked in his rookie year.

[ShawkFactory]

Kobe in 06

[Mass Debator]

Tyreke Evans peaked in his rookie year.
OJ Mayo too. lol

[richi]

although i really hope he wont, i think jimmy butler is going to go back to average especially when rose picks up

[jlip]

Many players do this in their contract seasons and end up getting overpaid over the next few seasons.

[Lebron23]

Goran Dragic 2013-14

[PP34Deuce]

Tyson Chandler every 2 years.

[ekosky]

Mike James
Dana Barros

[imdaman99]

Corey Maggette

[WorldWarriors]

Many players do this in their contract seasons and end up getting overpaid over the next few seasons.


This. It's amazing what a player can do when they are hungry for that new contract.

[GIF REACTION]

The greatest center of all time Eddy Curry

[SsKSpurs21]

This. It's amazing what a player can do when they are hungry for that new contract.

the problem is guaranteed contracts.

[Velocirap31]

Turkoglu after his big Toronto contract. He didn't go to back to normal, he went to scrub.

[Noyze]

Sometimes with rookies they have that first good year then the next year teams adapt to them and they never improve. Yo, but remember that one year Devin Harris blew up and put up like 25 a night? I think he went to the allstar game then played like shit the rest of the season lol.

[Xiao Yao You]

Joe Smith looked like he was going to have an all-star career after his 2nd season and never put up similar numbers again.

[Nuff Said]

rose

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Mike James and Dana Barros. Probably Sundiata Gaines, even tho he averaged like 2 points that one season. But that's 2 ppg more than he should average in the NBA.

[3ball]

stackhouse in 2001 - 29.8 ppg... he was normally in the 21-24 range

[kells333]

Sometimes with rookies they have that first good year then the next year teams adapt to them and they never improve. Yo, but remember that one year Devin Harris blew up and put up like 25 a night? I think he went to the allstar game then played like shit the rest of the season lol.

Devin harris was the first person i thought of. Him and flip murray but i dont think flip murrays lasted a whole season.

[Akrazotile]

Linsanity

[Kvnzhangyay]

Linsanity

That was like 10-15 games at most :coleman:

[PP34Deuce]

stackhouse in 2001 - 29.8 ppg... he was normally in the 21-24 range

That pistons team had no scoring options hence why he had a bloated scoring average.

jerry Stackhouse was about what you expected. he was an above average starting SG.

[DCL]

stackhouse in 2001 - 29.8 ppg... he was normally in the 21-24 range

he was the same player... same shooting efficiency, same defense, same playmaking, same everything, except he was just taking waaaay more FGAs than normal when there was nobody else in detroit.

[knickballer]

Larry Hughes had two really good years in Washington then became completely mediocre when he joined the Cavs on that big contract.

[Bosnian Sajo]

Bobby Simmons was great for the Clips one year, good enough to warrant the Bucks into singing him to a contract. Played one good year for Milwaukee and that's history.

[Kobe_6/8]

Turkoglu after his big Toronto contract. He didn't go to back to normal, he went to scrub.

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kevin-garnett-reaction.gif

[VIP2000]

Jerome James

[Fire Colangelo]

Joakim Noah.

[3ball]

Bobby Simmons was great for the Clips one year, good enough to warrant the Bucks into singing him to a contract. Played one good year for Milwaukee and that's history.
definitely this guy

[3ball]

Larry Hughes had two really good years in Washington then became completely mediocre when he joined the Cavs on that big contract.


Hughes was a point guard for a lot of his career... He was used to handling the ball a lot..

But that's not possible alongside Lebron, especially back in 2007 when he was even more ball-dominant than he is today

(at least today, he posts up 8.6% of the time, which is only 150th in the league, but still more than 2007, that's for sure... although the stats still show that he and Harden are the only non-point guards that dominate the ball as much as pg's, so Lebron is still a point-guard level ball-dominator)

[VIP2000]

Hughes was a point guard for a lot of his career... He was used to handling the ball a lot..

But that's not possible alongside Lebron, especially back in 2007 when he was even more ball-dominant than he is today

(at least today, he posts up 8.6% of the time, which is only 150th in the league, but still more than 2007, that's for sure... although the stats still show that he and Harden are the only non-point guards that dominate the ball as much as pg's, so Lebron is still a point-guard level ball-dominator)

No, he wasn't. He played PG for a season or two, but he was mainly a SG. It's certainly the case when he played alongside Gilbert Arenas.

And why would you want Larry fckin Hughes handling the ball when you could just let LeBron handle it instead?

[dab0yech0]

Corey Maggette

Maggette constantly got better every year for the first 6 years then got hurt and came off the bench for two seasons then still managed to average 22 a game for a year then started just getting old. But he was a consistent scorer his whole career so he wouldn't apply here.

[Sportal]

Tyreke Evans peaked in his rookie year.

Yeah :(. Still makes me sad, he was so promising though...

[smoovegittar]

NY had high hopes for Landry Fields, who came out of nowhere. Dude altered his shot and lost confidence... I think rumours also got in his head.