If the prediction was like people say, a sharingan user would never be missing their target... esp. with melee strikes

Kakashi vs Zebus
Chapter 13 page 4/5:
Failed to predict that kick... if not, it wouldn't have hit him.

Kakashi vs Kakuzu and Hidan
Chapter 334 page 3/4.
Failed to predict Kakuzu's kick... from directly in front of him. Sure, Kakashi let his guard towards Kakuzu down, but that doesn't excuse the sharingan from automatically predicting the attack for him.

Kakashi vs Pein
Chapter 420 page 8.
Failed to predict the attack. Sure he can't predict the blade blade, but that's excuse, sorry.

Sasuke vs Killerbee
1) Chapter 411 page 14/15.
Failed to "predict" the attack... which is why he only just barely escaped it, and ended up being grazed.

2) Chapter 411 page 18.
Failed to predict the attacks... all the excuses about being surprised by Killerbee having raiton fall on deaf ears for them being such sorry excuses.

3) Chapter 413 page 10/11.
Sasuke may have been tired... but he still didn't predict the attack. I'd actually accept this excuse if there was ANY TYPE of panel of Sasuke saying something like "!... I can't evade it" or something like that.. but all we have is him being owned here. No excuse for it not being predicted.

Sasuke attacking Raikage and his attendants
Chapter 461 page 2.
He failed predict that Darui was going to do a jutsu... unless his field of vision is smaller than a MGS1 genome soldier (lol), there's no excuse for only noticing who hit him with this attack until AFTER he's hit by it.

Sasuke vs Raikage
1) Chapter 463 page 3.
Failed to predict the grab Raikage is doing in the bottom left panel...

2) Chapter 463 page 13.
Failed to predict Raikage's dodge... even with the MS activated...

Sasuke vs Naruto (at the VOTE)
1)
Chapter 230 page 6/7/8.
"When he moves with the subtle way power enters his body, the image of his next movement appears before my eyes"
he "predicts" the movements by reading the way power enters the opponents body
type of movement in the links?
linear, dashing from distance, attack.
2)
Chapter 230 page 9/10.
type of movement in the links?
linear, dashing from distance, attack.
3)
Chapter 230 page 11/12.
type of movement in the links?
linear, dashing from distance, attack.
4)
Chapter 230 page 13/14.
type of movement in the links?
linear, dashing from distance, circling to get behind the opponent and attack.
- To better explain what happened... Naruto jumped out of the water towards Sasuke on page 13, then Naruto tried to circle him before attacking... it still failed as Sasuke predicted the movements perfectly.
5)
Chapter 231 page 4/5.
type of movement in the links?
linear, dashing from distance, circling to get behind the opponent and attack.
-Sasuke predicts this perfectly up until:
Chapter 231 page 6.
The chakra itself attacks him.

here...
Chapter 231 page 7.
...Sasuke clearly says he can't predict that type of movement with the sharingan... that being the movement of the chakra... which shows that the sharingan CAN'T predict the movement of inanimate objects.

But did you notice a pattern?
No?
Ok... let's see some more ...

Sasuke vs Raikage
Chapter 463 page 1.
type of movement in the links?
linear, dashing from distance, attack.
Even against Raikage.. who's speed is FAST at all the "modes" we've seen him at.

Still haven't figured out the pattern yet? Fine I'll give it away here:
Sasuke vs Killerbee
Chapter 413 page 4/7.
linear, dashing from distance, attack.
Wow... Sasuke states: "He's definitely get both speed and power... but he moves in a straight line... I have no trouble seeing him with these eyes."


It should be obvious by now (at least) that the sharingan isn't that great at predicting non-linear attacks from close range.
Notice how ALL the attacks that hit a sharingan user or all the dodges that made a sharingan user miss in the above links were at close range... and notice how ALL the instances where sharingan prediction played a part, the enemy was dashing from a distance with a linear attack.

So......... all the hype about "sharingan taijutsu" (which isn't even a style to begin with) being so "OMFG awesome no one can beat a sharingan user in taijutsu due to prediction" can STOP, right now!

Chapter 210 page 13/14.
notes that lee's attacks while sober were linear... "coincidentally"... Kimimaro dodged them effortlessly. later in the fight, when lee is landing attacks on Kimimaro...
Chapter 211 page 7.
he notes that his attacks are unpredictable...

Hmmm... seems to me that Kimimaro says:
"linear attacks = predictable"... just like the sharingan's "prediction" abilities seems to say ... except the sharingan projects an image to the user.