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Lanky and skilled true seven footer (7'1" but moves smoother than any typical big stiff), from UVA so fundamentally sound on defense. If so that's a good get:



Outside shot at near 40%. Worked his way up to an 80% FT shooter. Great per 100 stats and advanced measures.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/jay-huff-1.html

Confirmed that they have signed both Huff and Jordan Goodwin to Exhibit 10 contracts. I've been pushing Huff all season, so I'm very pleased. Yes, he does need to go to the gym and add some muscle, but I think he'll play well as a rookie.

Goodwin - meh, he's a 6'3 shooting guard who can't shoot 3's and gets 10 rebounds a game - but he's not named Westbrook. Good college player for St Louis, but needs to learn how to shoot and distribute before he can play in the NBA, imo.

Signing Huff was a great move by Tommy.

Love the huff signing. Big Center that can block shots and provide elite scoring from 3 and at the rim.
Poor strength and a bit slow.
I think we found our Thomas Bryant replacement after next year. Huge fan.

http://www.tankathon.com/players/compare?players=jay-huff--thomas-bryant

Meh on Huff. I live in Cville so I’ve followed him closely for four years. Always tantalized with potential but apart from a monster game here and there, never quite lived up to his abilities. Super nice kid and UNCANNY shot blocker, but I see him more as G league or international level.

I do not like the numbers game at Center and I wonder if it is not going to give him a fair evaluation. I think this guy can play power forward and he is as exciting to me as Kispert. Seems like a potentially really good hypocenter. High post center

long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:Meh on Huff. I live in Cville so I’ve followed him closely for four years. Always tantalized with potential but apart from a monster game here and there, never quite lived up to his abilities. Super nice kid and UNCANNY shot blocker, but I see him more as G league or international level.

Noted.

The reason I said somewhere that he is better than Kispert is that I could imagine a scenario where you have Huff as a power forward and Daniel Gafford as a center and the opponents just can’t get any shots off for all of them getting blocked.

Gafford used to start next to Wendell Carter Junior. If Jay Huff finds playing time with the Wizards he can start next to any number of big men. Or, he, can come off the bench is what I should say.

Edited to add that this guy puts me in the mind of players like Bill Laimbeer and Kevin McHale who were not all that athletic but they were big and they were not afraid of being physical and most of all they were grown ass man when they got to be NBA.

John Salley

J half might be a bit like him

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:

long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:Meh on Huff. I live in Cville so I’ve followed him closely for four years. Always tantalized with potential but apart from a monster game here and there, never quite lived up to his abilities. Super nice kid and UNCANNY shot blocker, but I see him more as G league or international level.

Noted.

The reason I said somewhere that he is better than Kispert is that I could imagine a scenario where you have Huff as a power forward and Daniel Gafford as a center and the opponents just can’t get any shots off for all of them getting blocked.

Gafford used to start next to Wendell Carter Junior. If Jay Huff finds playing time with the Wizards he can start next to any number of big men. Or, he, can come off the bench is what I should say.

Edited to add that this guy puts me in the mind of players like Bill Laimbeer and Kevin McHale who were not all that athletic but they were big and they were not afraid of being physical and most of all they were grown ass man when they got to be NBA.

John Salley

J half might be a bit like him

Noted as well. And I agree with a lot of this but not about Huff and physicality. Huff is absolutely the opposite of not afraid to be physical. That is him main problem, he will not bang. So often he was matched up against players that size wise he should have just punished, but never did. Again, I love the kid. Word on the street is that he is as nice as they come.

Yeah I should not of said that. Huff is reed thin and avoids contact. I agree. Nothing at all like Laimber or McHale in the physicality concepts.

John Salley. Is the closest I could think of.

It's not the size that's stopping Huff. He's plenty big and he's not a twig. It's the mentality. He refuses to bang. Part of it is that in Bennett's offense, big men are "blockers" and guards are "movers" and it's the movers that score. Even if he has potential to dominate the post, he's wasted 4 years in a program that never developed those skills.

But a guy with a Brook Lopez ceiling (and more athletic) on a 10-day? hard to really be too disappointed.