NBA draft buzz: Anthony Black has worked his way into top-five pick discussions around the league, JeremyWoo writes
. It’s a busy scouting week for me, packing in a stretch of seven games in eight days, but by this time next week I will have seen pretty much every noteworthy prospect in action over the past few months of the season.In all honesty, I didn’t enter this season expecting Black to emerge as one of the draft’s elite prospects, and I’m not sure that was a commonly held opinion anywhere, primarily due to concerns surrounding his individual scoring ability.
Ultimately, I’m bullish here, as Black fits a prospect mold I personally tend to view in a favorable light: He has clear NBA-caliber physical traits with room to add strength and power to his movements; he has the passing and handling ability to run a team; he’s already a pretty good defender; he’s competitive; and the late-blooming nature of his trajectory leaves room for a ton of improvement in the areas where he’s still somewhat raw.
Baylor has given George freedom to hunt shots and score, and his actual efficiency has been adequate, if not stellar. He is pretty good around the rim, draws a lot of fouls, has been making enough threes on heavy volume, and has enough of an in-between game to think that everything could feasibly trend up.
Despite Mitchell’s significant physical gifts—he’s powerfully built with big shoulders, he’s pretty agile for 6'8" and he’s an excellent vertical athlete—it often feels like he just doesn’t read the game all that fast. For players in his mold, some of that can be mitigated with energy and good habits, and we saw some of that Monday night.
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