I really like this pick-up. I do think he can be a really good starting PG. He's killer on D, but is not necessarily all defense as his offensive metrics are efficient, just not high volume. He's just not going to score a ton or shoot the 3 much. On offense he needs to be a driver and facilitator getting more out of the rest of the roster. He can really take care of the ball, not getting turnovers (1.6) but also will get a good amount of assists (4.4) and should only improve on that more next year. He continues to make improvement. Looks like he's gained some weight from HS, solidly built with super long arms for his size, and his size is 6'-5". Fantastic length. Got better in rebounding (2.9) but could be even better there with more determination. The fact that his FT% jumped to 76.4% is excellent. He should be driving all the time. He just needs to learn to be more aggressive on offense. His dog mentality needs to kick in and realize he can be the man. He doesn't turn it over much and he is long and can take it to the rack. If he gets fouled, its points. If the D collapses and he can kick it to the wings, easily with that length.
Dual should be driving all the time and have our Forwards drift to the wings clearing space. If that defender collapses to help, the SF's and PF's should be getting a lot of good looks at 3's. The Centers won't be threat their with their current abilities. Would love it if we had a great 3Pt shooting PF. Sadiq was 37% but only hit 7 of them all year and assuming we get Folifac, he was 38% but also only hit 6 of them. They were freshman PF's though, so at least they showed potential in their efficiency. I think they will both get a lot more open 3's this season and they will be good enough in that regard to take the open looks, but it would be great if we had someone more automatic. I think Dual is going to get a lot of players open shots this season, we need players to knock them down. Doty and Tobiason were not all that efficient at 3's, 32.8% and 33.8% respectively, but both were just Sophomores. Hopefully they are still improving in that regard.
at SG/SF I suspect 3M should be money at 3's despite being a freshman, as his stats playing against some solid competition back that up. I think Tobiason likely gets the most PT with 3M/Doty being next and then Kiyan should see the least with his poor productivity thus far that only got worse as the season went on against better competition. Despite having Anthony on his jersey, and his pretty high recruit ranking, he shouldn't get too many minutes until he proves to be more efficient. I don't see how he isn't a better 3pt shooter (25.4%) and FT shooter (62.8%). He has to have been throwing up shots all day for his entire life right? That combo is not good, especially when he is a kid who is crafty and can get to the FT line. That seems to be his bread and butter. Over his last 8 games he was 13-15 in FT's so that is a positive trend at least.
