To say Cole Anthony’s one year at North Carolina was a struggle is an understatement. He was a top-5 prospect coming out of high school, but did not live up to those expectations during an injury-shortened freshman year at North Carolina. There are a number of factors that contributed to Cole Anthony’s inefficiency at the college level, which I will get into, but it’s also important to not ignore those struggles because of these factors.
There are legitimate concerns about how Anthony improves at the NBA level. However, all the top prospects in this draft class have their flaws, which is why this is viewed as one of the weaker draft classes in recent memory.