preface:
Pat Riley: The future of basketball will be the sport of five players in their early two-meter positions, and the position will be completely blurred...
Spurs Uniform Group: I have gathered seven 1.96 meters, can I summon the dragon?
Pat Riley: ...
Directory index
1. Player profiles
2. Player data
3. Scouting report
4. GIF display
5. The life of the player
6. Pictures of the players
7. Personal summary
1. Player profiles
Name: Kendall Brown
Date of birth: May 11, 2003
Age: 18 years old
Position: Small forward
Parent team: Baylor University
Height: 6'8 (2.03m)
Arm Span: 6 ft 11 (2.11 m)
Weight: 205 lbs (93 kg)
Predicted picks: Mid to late stage of the first round
High profile: Jeremy Grant, the large Matisse Sable
Low profiles: Andre Robertson, Maurice Hackelis
Predicted teams: Timberwolves, Bulls, Spurs (Raptors signed), Nuggets, Mavericks
2. Player data
Basic + advanced data
3. Scouting report
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merit
- Nice no-ball scoring ability
- Can eat small players strongly
- Smart no-ball running
- Solid passing skills
- All-rounder on the defensive end
- Good at stealing and truncation
- Excellent athleticism and maneuverability
shortcoming
- Need to improve shooting ability
- Reluctant to shoot three points
- Lack of ball possession
- Offensive technique is too crude
- Too negative on the offensive end
-Need to improve rebounding ability
- Whether the defensive potential can be realized to the NBA is doubtful
Kendall Brown is a super athletic, energetic striker with solid all-round technique. He is a versatile scorer who can score from any position on the court and is also an all-around defender. His projection needs to be more stable and his ball holding needs to improve. Still, he's an all-around high-pick rookie with a good chance of becoming the first-round rookie of the 2022 draft.
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- Very athletically gifted flanks with a pair of spring legs that have all the conditions to become an NBA player. Excellent defensive ability, good at switching offense and defense, with a lot of potential on the offensive end.
-Top physical condition. Can work above the basket and has excellent bounce, quick reflexes and flexible directional change
- Has a good sense of space on the offensive end and is very good at emptying baskets, especially sneaking in the back door and making layups. His breakthrough is more of a straight line attack basket, and he needs to improve his creativity in possession
- Once received on the flanks and free throw line, he was one of the best basketball finishers of the tournament
- Defensive ability is quite outstanding. Having enough height and athleticism to defend the No. 1-4 position, it is perfect for the ubiquitous change of defense in modern basketball
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advantage
- Excellent explosiveness and athleticism
-Excellent 6'8 figure in the corresponding position
-Strong impact
- Energetic, perpetual motion machine on the pitch
- Defensive all-rounder; has the potential at the NBA defensive level
- Very good stadium view and passing smell
-Active empty cutter, always keep moving
- Convert the threat in the attack; seize every opportunity to attack quickly
- Excellent stagnant, with the threat of an empty tackle basket
- No ball is required to score
shortcoming
- Need to improve the desire to shoot outside and shoot
- Insufficient stability in possession
- There is no stable shot
Lack of ability to create shooting opportunities on its own
Fourth, the life of the player
Born in Courtage Grove, Minnesota, Kendall Brown attended East Ridge High School in Woodbury, Minnesota, where he averaged 17.6 points per game and led the team to the state championship for the first time. His senior year of high school transferred to Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Air, Kansas. He and teammate Kennedy Chandler helped the team reach the GEICO National High School Championships in his senior year of high school and was selected for the McDonald's All-American Star Game.
As a five-star high school student in the United States, Brown turned down offers from prestigious universities such as Kansas and Arizona, and chose defending champion Baylor University, becoming the highest-ranked high school student recruited by Baylor after Isaiah Austin in 2012. Brown's high school was a church school, and Baylor University was also a church school, which was a big reason why he chose Baylor.
Brown's father, Courtney Brown Sr., was a former professional basketball player who played in South America, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and was a member of the Harlem basketball team. Brown Sr. is currently working on behavioural intervention at the Ramsey Secondary School in São Paulo. His older brother Courtney Brown Jr. is currently playing for the University of St. Thomas.
5. Pictures of the players
6. Personal summary
A group of high-quality wings represented by Cade Cunningham, Scotty Barnes, Jonathan Cumminga, Franz Wagner, etc. have greatly improved the overall quality of the 2021 draft, which may also be an important reason why 2021 is called the draft year. In this year's draft, the flank position is not ideal in terms of both "quality" and "quantity", and among them, Baylor University rookie forward Kendall Brown may be a potential stock. Despite his immature offensive skills, Brown still attracts the attention of NBA teams, especially those who lack flanking talent, with his excellent physical fitness, good basketball IQ and huge potential on the defensive end.
Solid physical condition, all-round athletic ability
As a wing wing, Brown is 2.03 meters tall and has an arm span of 2.11 meters, which cannot be said to be outstanding, but it is already an average level or above size. His physique is not very strong, but the skeleton is good, the upper and lower limbs are well-proportioned, and it seems that adding some muscle is not a big problem. Brown's most appealing is his all-round dynamic talent. Although his absolute speed is not top-notch, his reaction speed and start-up are very fast, and he can always get to the corresponding position or get the ball one step ahead of others. His hips are quite flexible and can turn, change direction and laterally with agility. He also has a pair of spring legs, and although the bounce is not an explosion, it is fast (sometimes like stepping on a spring), and the body control and coordination in the air are good. All in all, Brown's overall quality, while not explosive, is very comprehensive and practical.
Sharp conversion fast attack, smart no-ball empty cut, efficient basket finish
With good physical fitness and athleticism, Brown has excellent mobility, a pair of Scud legs and keen intuition that allows him to always be one step ahead of the transition. When the team completes a successful defense, he can always rush to the opponent's basket at the first time and receive a pass from his teammate to complete the end. He can also quickly advance with the ball after taking off the rebound to complete a dragon. When the opponent quickly returns to the defense, he is neither afraid nor iron-headed, and can complete the final in the air after confrontation, with a fairly good shooting rate, or find teammates with good vision and passing, and complete assists.
Brown's threat waned when the offense was mired in positional warfare, but he was still able to find scoring opportunities through aggressive no-ball running. His running position is very clever, often able to complete the back door unconsciously, but also with the help of his teammates' single or multiple cover, cut to the basket, and use excellent bounces and lags to complete the air connection. Fast attacks and air cuts are his most successful offensive methods of the season, and they also make him shoot 58.4 percent from the field. In addition, he also has a certain ability to shoot at a fixed point, especially in the right bottom corner, but at this stage his main threat comes from the basket, and when he gets a shot there, it is almost unstoppable (118/185, 815%).
Good basketball IQ, weak side of the contact point, potential organizational attributes
Although his physical fitness is good, Brown is not a "jumping man" with developed limbs and a simple mind, on the contrary, his ball quotient is quite good, always calm on the field, and has a strong sense of teamwork. In Baylor's no-ball offense, he is an important catch point on the weak side, able to make the right decision quickly after receiving the ball, quickly cutting into the basket or passing to teammates in the gap. He has a good view, and with his tall stature, he can always spot his teammates at the far end and in the empty position, and pass the ball to him at the first time.
In dribbling, Brown also has a certain ability to handle the ball, as mentioned earlier, in the transition offense, he can not only score his own points, but also often assist teammates. In positional warfare, he can occasionally break through with the ball, attract the opponent's defense, pass to the inside teammates to eat cake or assist the outside of the three points, the timing and accuracy of the pass are good. Brown averaged 1.9 assists per game during his college rookie season, and as his dribbling ability improves further, he has the potential to unlock more of his playmaker attributes.
The all-rounder on the defensive end, the potential of the defensive level
Baylor University's backcourt changes after winning last year's title, with the starting backcourt duo David Mitchell and Jared Butler both entering the draft and leaving the team, and these two are almost the top backcourt defensive combinations in the collegiate league. However, Baylor's defense in the new season did not collapse, thanks in large part to the strengthening of the defensive strength of the flanks, especially Kendall Brown's all-round attributes on the defensive end. His athleticism is on full display on the defensive end, with he can play against tall strikers and sometimes even deal with the smaller 4/5 position, while his agile pace and turning direction allow him to easily keep up with the nimble little one on the outside. And this near-infinite ability to change defenses is exactly what the NBA needs most today.
Not only does he have the ability to move quickly, Brown also has a pair of active fast hands, while clinging to the opponent, he can complete the steal unexpectedly at any time, and give interference or blocking in time at the moment of the opponent's shot. In addition to his excellent defensive ability, Brown's team defense awareness is also excellent, good at judging the opponent's breakthrough and passing route, and can always give teammates defense and bag clips when needed. With a stature of 6 feet 8 and a good prediction, he has a certain ability to protect the basket. Of course, he still needs a lot of improvement in defensive experience and skills, easy to take risks and steals, and defensive position selection is also problematic. Flawed, his defensive potential is huge, with defensive level potential. Stylistically, he has a bit of a mix of Sebel and Danny Green, with fierceness, agility and intelligence.
In the season of high and low, the shortcomings of shooting are difficult to make up
Brown's rookie season started off spectacularly, scoring all in double figures in the first eight games and shooting a jaw-dropping 71.8 percent. His fast attacks, finishing and no-ball running overwhelmed opponents, and he also had excellent performances in assists and doubles, and the draft pick soared all the way to the lotto zone. However, as the season progressed, opponents paid more and more attention to him, especially against many strong teams in the same division (Big 12), Brown crashed into the NCAA rookie wall, and had a slump of scoring below double digits in six consecutive games. Especially in terms of outside shooting, opponents dare to boldly empty him on the outside, and his shooting rate is only 34.1%, and more seriously, his production is extremely low, averaging only a pitiful 1.2 shots per game.
In the modern NBA, as a wing player, if the shooting ability is seriously insufficient, even if the ball quotient is high, the defensive ability is difficult to make up. The Spurs' former veteran Kyle Anderson and the Thunder's former defensive player Andre Robertson are the lessons of the past, the former is also concrete, organizational, defensive, and the ball quotient is extremely high, but the lack of outside projection has always made it difficult for him to go to higher heights, and he has only averaged more than 2 three-point shots and more than 1 hit in one season (20-21) in his career, and this season is also the peak of Anderson's career. The latter declined in physical fitness, and after the team was rebuilt, it quickly disappeared in the league. Even for a defensive genius like Sable, flaws in shooting have seriously affected his tactical standing and playing time.
For Brown, dribbling shots may be difficult to reach in the short term, and the main goal at this stage is to try to increase the production and stability of the catch shot (C&S) and make itself a greater outside point threat, so that there is a chance to get a certain amount of playing time. His shooting mechanics need to be adjusted, and at this point, perhaps most of all, the guidance of a well-known shooting coach is needed.
The basic technology needs to be improved, and the presence of the offensive end needs to be strengthened
Not only shooting, but also some of Brown's other basic skills need to be improved, especially on the offensive end. In an open offensive environment, or one-on-one pulling away space, he can also lower his center of gravity and rely on a quick first step to complete a breakthrough or get rid of it. However, when caught in a trench battle, or in a small space, he will struggle, his dribbling is very frizzy, and there will often be unforced mistakes, dribbling the ball on the foot, dribbling it, or hitting someone with the ball. This lack of dribbling ability limits his ball-holding attack in positional warfare, which is also an important reason why Baylor has replaced him whenever he fights for positions at the moment of stalemate this season - there is no outside threat and singles with the ball.
It's not just technically, Brown is sometimes too quiet on the court, the presence on the offensive end is too low, and in this regard he is far inferior to teammate Jeremy Sohan, who, although equally technically crude, dares to fight and dare to express himself. Brown needs to improve his basic skills at the same time, improve his desire to perform, not only in the conversion of attacks, in the position war also need to be more actively involved in the offensive cooperation, even if not too much to hold the ball, but also to let the ball pass, when there is an opportunity to dare to shoot and break through, to avoid the embarrassing scene of teammates playing hot, but they are smoking in the flanks and bottom corners.
Future outlook
There are a lot of sporty wings in the annual draft, after all, they have both stature and athletic talent, and once they can unlock more skills, they will be shining gems. Kendall Brown does show good potential in many ways, promising to become an offensive and defensive, highly mobile all-rounder, but his growth path is destined to be long and may never reach the ideal height. However, for the San Antonio Spurs, who lack the height of the front, he is worth trying, the defensive potential is huge and does not occupy the ball, even if it can not be a good forward like Jeremy Grant, becoming a more organized Harkless is a good investment. If his ball dealer can cash in and evolve under the spurs coaching staff like Dezhangtai Murray, perhaps this clever fluffy head will bring windfall to the Silver and Dark.
(Text/Mu Yan 1199)