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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1504709, member: 906"] The first two practices said howard was having some defensive woes letting guys blow by him. It may or may not take some time for that to be fixed. Then someone compared him to mookie. They should have saw verbal hell fire for that one. No disrespect to Mookie but his defense just wasn't ready for this level of basketball up to his redshirt junior year anyway. I really like Howard's high school game though. 1.He keeps the ball close to him even against pressure, 2.welcomes pressure and bodying up while he is dribbling, 3. invites contact in the lane. 4. has a floater josh pace/cj esque. 5. finishes with both hands around the rim. 6. could probably dunk from a slow dropstep (for a guard thats huge athleticism). 7. Now we are hearing he is a pleasant surprise shooting the 3 ball. 8. Hes from the DC area. Those are more oldschool pg skills opposed to the mcw style of long stepping around people, or Scoop needing a crossover for three years here to get by his man, or Kaleb depending on his second gear. He can develop into more of a Ennis/Edelin type on the court (adding number 6 to that is downright scary). Either that or he developes into more of a Dion Waiters type SG who is good at getting by his man. As a compliment I put his potential higher then scoop, triche, and many of the four year guards we have had here. Of course its easy to do that with freshmen. Imo. He was a high 4 star in my mind on all accounts because of what he can develop into. Kaleb same thing he gets to where he wants to on the court in a hurry even as a freshmen at will. You couldn't teach that to Triche or Scoop Jardine(to his senior year). Or MCW as a freshmen for that matter. The only reason people are low on him as because he was consistant like many other freshmen not shooting the ball well. He will take alot of midrange shots early on this year and by the last quarter of the season they will start falling propelling him to double digits scoring on many occasions. Then after they do all he has to do is add his three point shot 35% or better to be in the race for 1st or second team all ACC. [/QUOTE]

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