Ruzious wrote:He's a lottery wild-card, imo. I'm really impressed with his recent improvement in rebounding and shot-blocking, though he still hasn't put his game all together, yet. There's still about a month left. If he can show he can get to the line more and keep up the rebounding and shot-blocking, he could go in the top half of the lottery.
he's been rebounding fine all season. he can just extend and reach over 6'8 college c's and tap the ball to himself.
the questions i have about austin are: will he be able to maneuver or get around NBA bigs trying to hold him off for rebounds? does he have the agility to get in better rebounding position? does he have the lateral quickness to slide over in time to provide help and block shots? does he have the quicks and agility to keep face up bigs from turning him into a revolving door?
i'd be less pessimistic about austin if he had the agility to make up for his lack of strength like a john henson, but he doesn't look like he has that. offensively, he doesn't have straight line quickness either. so even if he pulls off a show n go there is no guarantee he would get all the way to the hoop, beating the help.