Name: Top 10 Most Frustratingly Inconsistent Athletes
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You can just feel a little bit of tension starting to come from the other end as well as Kyrgios.

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Welcome to watchmojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 athletes who were clearly capable of great things but just couldn't seem to find real consistency in their careers.

Like I say, I might have played three years, but

that three years gonna cover a lifetime and more.

Paul Pogba was the perfect footballing athlete.

Tall, quick and extremely technical with the ball at his feet.

With his rare combination of creativity, physicality and technical finesse, footballers don't come much more gifted than Paul Pogba.

But after meandering through inconsistent form during what could have been his prime years, people began to lose faith.

Pogba is a joy to watch at his best and he has an absolute cannon in his right foot.

However, his attitude has always been a point of contention and productive spells at Juventus and Manchester United were always overshadowed by other factors.

An 18 month doping ban cost him his U of contract and though he still has time to rebuild himself, he remains one of football's greatest what ifs.

I like to win fairly and people know that and you see it.

Lamar Odom came into the NBA with all of the ingredients he needed to become something truly outstanding.

He took it away from Shaq literally with a slap of the ball.

Now Odom being defensed by Rice, changes direction, goes around Rice underneath score.

Sometimes he succeeded in this regard, but

he also had a knack for underperforming and leaving us all frustrated.

He was a truly fantastic forward who could set the court on fire.

Plus he was a dependable big game player at the best of times.

But fans began to get annoyed with Odom's inconsistency and how he was liable to check out from time to time off court.

Though he was a two time NBA champion, he wasn't quite as dependable as he should have been.

I'm not here to rattle feathers or anything like that.

There might not be a more talented MMA fighter in history than BJ Penn, but

he also managed to find himself in one ugly decline.

Penn was first a prodigy on the Brazilian jiu jitsu circuit who picked up insanely good boxing skills upon switching to mma.

Then he went on to win championships at lightweight and welterweight in the ufc.

But just as he was right in the thick of the goat debate, problems surfaced.

His lackadaisical approach to training left him with some real problems.

Later on, Penn's motivation to work was becoming an issue.

Things got so bad that he left the sport after breaking the UFC's record for the most consecutive losses with seven straight defeats.

Dwight as dominant as can be, a generationally gifted center who is as athletic as they come.

Dwight Howard climbs through the roof to put the magic up.

But for as much as he looked like a world beater on one night, he could come out the next looking totally off.

Don't get us wrong, he's an NBA champion and an eight time all star.

That was all Dwight Howard starting on the defensive end.

But it was hard to watch Howard and not feel like he could have been something greater if he had a stronger level of focus.

It's hard to get out there 80, 90, or even 100 or more times in a season and maintain your intensity, but

Or at least they could do it better than Dwight Howard.

Blocked by Howard sent that out of here like it was a wiffle ball.

Adrien Broner might just be the prime example of a mercurial boxer that we've seen since the turn of the century.

I know I'm blessed with the God given talent and every day I go in that gym, I work, I work so hard.

When he burst onto the scene, he seemed to have it all.

Astounding technical and physical skills along with charisma and star potential.

You're going to be judged by how you perform under the brightest possible lights.

And Bruhner was undeniably inconsistent at that top level.

Do you ever foresee a day where you might lose a fight?

He had some big moments and huge wins, but

you could never count on him to be fully dialed in every single time he made that ring lock.

Losses to the likes of Marcos Madonna, Shawn Porter, and

even an aging Manny Pacquiao made it clear that Broner was Far from a safe bet, we have a unanimous decision, all three in favor of the winner and still WBA welterweight champion of the world, Manny Pacman.

Jamarcus Russell was so good during his college career that he was selected first overall by the Oakland Raiders in the 2007 NFL Draft.

The Oakland Raiders select quarterback Jamarcus Russell, LSU Would this promising youngster become the standout quarterback that Oakland had been so desperately craving?

He clearly had the talent, but struggled to keep his head on straight.

Simply put, Russell didn't have the mentality necessary to become a top flight star.

His dedication to his training was always in question, and

issues with his weight and a persistent codeine habit threw him completely off course.

After just three years in the NFL, the Raiders cut their losses and took a big financial hit just to get Russell off their books.

No matter how things went for me, I still love the game of football.

No list of famous NFL draft busts would be complete without a special mention for Ryan Leaf.

In the NFL draft, it was the finished product versus the upside.

Ryan Leaf was seen as the guy who might climb farther.

As a member of the 1998 draft that gave us Peyton Manning.

Leaf was at the center of quite a lot of media scrutiny and hype from that time onwards.

The Ryan Leaf story was one of undeniable disappointment.

This was a guy who was woefully immature and not ready for the spotlight, not ready for responsibility or leadership.

Sure, we got to see glimpses of his skill and his readiness for the elite level, but

problems related to work ethic and discipline caused him to unravel.

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