Well draft sites sice they saw him calling him best guard prospect in europe since Petrovic, manny of them claim he has more upside. Not sure how that qulfy as flying uder radar....I guess by those sites words means he is expected to become 20ppg player
ManualRam wrote:
would you know if he's shown any improvement in his floor game? like, can you comment on his shot selection, decision making, court awareness and passing?
he's super talented, but he struck me as a kid with zero intangibles.
Well all coaches including Barcelona first team coach call him amazing profesional, he is hard worker. It's just his atitude on court
he did impruve, but still long way to go.
From what I saw he made big step on defense, not finding him self out of position and does not gabmle like he did in past. Also reding plays better. From time to time there were some posesions when he got motivated whre he playd lock down defense. From beginig of seson till now he defenetly cuted down stupid fouls. But still there are moments when he shows 0 desire geting back on defense, especially if he makes turnover, and still must read plays better and impruve in positionig
On ofense he is still impulsive scorer, not haveng consistacy wich shows lack of go to moves for now. Pretey much in all games he playd this season he has 1 or 2 moments in 5 min. span where he wold score 10-15 points and 5-6 for rest of minutes. He did cuted down bad shoots, but far from good level. Still sometimes jack 3's from 10 meters with no reason. He is still worst when he has cold night. Insted of wating for game to come to him on bad day, he is still trying to score at evrey posesion focing game in such situations.
Still shooting to much insted of using peenetration. Usually takes lot step bacl jumpers, but makes them in low %. for now. Prety much it's because he plays in mostly in 1 speed and 1 direction, rerley being able to change sped and diretion in dribling. That is area where he will have to work alot. He can finish with left hand, but when he goes left (teams forcing him on that side allways sice they cant stop him when he drives right) usualy ends with pull up jumper. Left hand need lot of work defenetly. Area where he is dominat is stright lane drive from hand off on right hand. But rerley used and also all teams now know that and are prepared for it. There few sets made for him for back to basket, he is not gret in that area but OK for his age. Area where there are not much impruvments is off ball game. This is area where he should work alot, but so far does not use or understand how to move without ball in position offense besides fen cuts for alley up. Since he has natrual fast shoot he could be dedly of screan shooter but he just not using that game at moment
His passing and court vision is underated. He is not Magic, but sees court well. From time to time makes bad decicions, sometimes even trying be flashy but he is realy ok, made lot ipruvment as well. In game he is often used as pick and roll ballhandler, often makes right decisin where he racognize defense to pass for roller or to pase on side. On bad note when he plays pick and roll all teams forcing him go left wich he never uses penetration to break down defense (he did on right hand before teams scouted him tough), all ends with pass or pull up jump shoot
Overall I'm qite happy with his impruvment, considering how he looked 2 years ago. This is his frist season playing organised basketball with seaniors (not great level, but more then good level for his age) and should not be forgaten he missed almost full season of learnig and that he is not practicing with team that he plays, but with first team what makes him bit togher for him
