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[QUOTE="Toronto Cuse, post: 459344, member: 1842"]
Terrific scorer. Have seen him play quite a few times and he is the best pure scorer in high school basketball right now. I was in Mexico for last summer's Cadet National FIBA Americas and he was the team leader and by far the best player on a team that had Aaron Gordon, Jahlil Okafor, Justin Jackson, etc... I actually think the Melo comparison is better than the Pierce comparison. He isn't tough like Pierce. Pierce has dog in him. Pierce is tough as nails. He wants to rip your heart out when he plays you. Not sure Parker has that. Parker has a similar one dribble pull up which is his bread and butter and similar body type to Pierce which is why people often go to that comparison but other than those two things I don't really see it. The Melo comparison is closer because of his versatility. He isn't smooth like Melo, he's man made. He's taught himself all of his moves through hard work, he's not pure and natural like Melo is. That said he might be better on the low block. He fights for deep post position and has a plethora of up and unders, ball fakes, head fakes, etc... He also has a very similar jab step which he uses to create space. He isn't explosive off the bounce and is probably a full step slower than Melo at same stage. But he is craftier and gets more out of less. He isn't as talented as Melo, doesn't own the baseline like Melo did, but he might have more complete package at the same stage. I don't think he's going to have a year like Melo did. In fact I don't think it will be anywhere close. But I do think he is more similar to Melo than he is to Pierce.
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