Bensational wrote:Kira Lewis is fast moving up my board. Might be my top pick in our range right now. 6'5 lead ball handler with a nice dribble and great at rocking his defender off foot before making a move. He hits the 3 well and makes nice passes.
Check this scouting video on him:
Look at those gorgeous scooping layups! Look at that hang time! He just seems to find ways to stay up in the air longer than his opponent, and he can get some great separation because of that. His drive and dish game is strong, which would be good for a perimeter starved team.
His game is up and down right now,
looking at his splits for this season.
The big difference between W's and L's is his efficiency. They're both split pretty evenly, with 16 W's and 15 L's. Over this 16 wins, he shot a blazing 46% from 3 on 4.1 attempts. In L's, he shoots 30% on 5.8 attempts. In fact, the numbers suggest that when he's not shooting well then he forces shots, and a lot more of them, and that likely kills the flow of the offense - because most other stats are consistent across the board.
Here are Donovan Mitchell's sophomore splits, for comparison. Similarly big gulfs between W's and L's, but Lewis' numbers are more impressive offensively, in general.
Lewis reminds me of some kind of Fox/Mitchell fusion. His TO's are way too high across the board, but that could be lightened if he's sharing playmaking with Fultz. But most of all, the kid looks like a natural scorer with strong enough handles to get where he wants, and a developing perimeter shot.
He has now become my early call for steal of the draft. The Mitchell/SGA of this draft.