I don't but there was this snippet on Twitter:
Thanks Sid. Pretty fair assessment I would say, he definitely is a catch and hold player who favors his left but has elite athleticism and efficiency (and he had a slow start last year too). He often compares himself to Damian Lillard, which makes a lot of sense - they both have NBA point guard size, and like Justin, Lillard was not really a point guard but was a standout scorer in college while not playing in a top conference, and also had scouts questioning his ability to make his teammates better when coming into the NBA. As we know Lillard is now a first team all-NBA player.HUSID74 wrote:Here's the full report:
One of the camp's lesser-known prospects, Wright-Foreman earned his spot on NBA scouts' senior watch lists with his flashes of talent. The 20-year-old stood out with his dynamic scoring ability and intriguing physical profile. While not overly tall at 6-1, he has a strong frame, long arms, big hands, and impressive two-foot bounce in space. Wright-Foreman was a lightly-recruited high school prospect, but he's an aggressive bucket-getter who can get it going from the perimeter or explode to the rim with physicality.
Wright-Foreman was one of only four NCAA players to attempt at least 215 pull-up jumpers last season, and he scored a remarkable 1.074 points per possession on such shots, head and shoulders more efficient than his peers. He finished in the 88th percentile as a pick-and-roll scorer and 89th percentile as an isolation scorer, which bodes well for a potential role as a bench scoring guard at the next level. He's a big-time shotmaker who also plays with great energy on both ends of the floor, at least in the camp setting. While the Colonial Conference isn't exactly full of stout defenses, Wright-Foreman is fairly battle-tested having faced Dayton, Clemson, Auburn and Villanova all last season. He has made a big jump each season at Hofstra as he went from averaging 1.3 points as a freshman to 18.1 as a sophomore to 24.4 as a junior.
Wright-Foreman isn't short on flaws, as he's a catch-and-hold player who doesn't have much of a right hand, lacking a degree of feel and savvy as a playmaker. There are a lot of scoring guards in his mold who haven't been able to stick in the NBA, and teams will want to see him become a reliable facilitator and teammate.
This is quite a distinguished nomination and he's in good company with these kids. Apparently they trim the list to 10 in February then 5 in March.EvanJ wrote:The 20 candidates include 15 players from the top six conferences, one player from the seventh best conference (American Athletic), one player from a conference that was eleventh last season but eighth the season before (Atlantic 10), one player from the best team outside the conferences I already mentioned (Gonzaga), and two mid-majors in Wright-Foreman and Wofford's Fletcher Magee. Magee averaged 22.1 points last season and shot all three types of shots well.
He didn't have many rebounds or assists. He is a senior who scored 1,807 points in his first three seasons. To compare, that's more than Jenkins's 1,767 in his first three seasons. Magee scored 27 when Wofford won 79-75 at North Carolina on December 20, 2017. Wofford was 141st in the RPI last season.
Excellent news what about order of finish predictions??EvanJ wrote:He won Preseason POY with Pemberton on the Second Team. The ten players on the two teams are the top ten returning players in 2017-2018 voting, with Pemberton being the only preseason Second Team member who wasn't on one of the three teams last season.
Jojogunne wrote:https://gohofstra.com/documents/2018/10 ... onpoll.pdf
As always the big boys getting the recognition but lots of good players that nobody knows about. Is it your feeling that Justin should have been ranked higher Evan??EvanJ wrote:They said they don't discriminate against mid-majors. Here's a breakdown of their 101 players:
74 from the top six conferences
15 from the American Athletic, Mountain West, Missouri Valley, Atlantic 10, or Gonzaga (who has four of the top fifty)
12 from the other 22 conferences excluding Gonzaga
The Mid-American was tenth in the 2017-2018 Conference RPI, one spot ahead of the Atlantic 10, but I included the Atlantic 10 in the middle group and Mid-American in the everybody else group because the Atlantic 10 is normally better.
No. I don't compare him either way. I'm not saying he's better or worse. Furthermore, the only active NBA player who played more than one year in the CAA is Old Dominion's Kent Bazemore. He was on the Second Team as a junior and the First Team as a senior. When Bazemore was a junior, Jenkins won POY. He scored 408 points in 1,334 minutes in the NBA. When Bazemore was a senior, George Mason's Ryan Pearson won POY. He never played in the NBA and is now playing in France. If you're a mid-major player and don't get attention from the NCAA Tournament, I don't try to guess what NBA teams will think of you.triplec2195 wrote: So you don't think he measures up??
