The Step Back Composite NBA Draft Big Board: The best 30 draft prospects of the 2010s

Tier 4 — Probable All-Star with enough flaws to make franchise-changing doubtful

No. 3 overall pick, Utah Jazz, 2011

Tier 4 consists of players who had less glaring flaws than tier 5, but they still had limiting factors that made them far from sure things.

Enes Kanter is a very hard player to place on this list because he was the biggest unknown of the group. The ineligible ruling that prevented him from playing at Kentucky really limited the pre-draft scouting ability for him, so it was tough to say with confidence what exactly he’d be. If you wanted to buy into his youth international film, where he posted gaudy stats against mediocre competition and looked like the best player on the floor at all times, you could have thought he should go No. 1 in 2011. But if you saw the potential issues — haphazard effort on defense, an over-reliance on post play, and concerning lateral mobility — you probably saw something like how his career unfolded happening.

Kanter was definitely an elite-level prospect, even if his youth film was probably a bit of fool’s gold. He has been a top-five post scorer every year since arguably 2016, and he’s had his moments of competent team defense in the right system despite significant deficiencies physically. But a year on display against similar levels of talent might have cooled the jets on him a bit.