CHICAGO — After the combine measurements and testing on Monday and two days of scrimmages on Tuesday and Wednesday, the competitive portion of the 2024 NBA Draft Combine has wrapped up at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
That doesn’t mean the combine is over quite yet. Various agencies will hold their pro days over the next two days and player interviews with NBA teams will continue to take place through the rest of the week.
For the most part though, we now have a good idea of who helped themselves the most between the various on-court activities. Here are the players whose stock moved up from the combine.
Reed Sheppard, Kentucky
He was arguably the most pleasant surprise in all of college basketball this year, and certainly in the national freshman class. This weekend, Sheppard surprised us yet again when he recorded the highest vertical leap in the entire NBA Combine. Given the shooting splits and defensive metrics he showed for Kentucky this year, and the undeniable intangibles, this most recent data point is just the latest in a suddenly long line of evidence that Sheppard is continuing to trend up boards.
Devin Carter, Providence
Carter is known as one of the most competitive players in this draft and a high-upside defensive prospect. This week he utilized the athletic testing to add more credence to those descriptives.
Carter recorded a 42-inch max vertical (tying Sheppard for best in the field), a 35-inch standing vertical, and then reportedly tied the combine record for the three-quarter sprint at 2.87 seconds. The only negative was that he measured in at 6-foot-2.25 without shoes, but his massive +6.5-inch wingspan more than helps compensate. In short, the vast majority of the data only helps a prospect who is hoping to keep pushing towards the lottery.
Zach Edey, Purdue
Much of the conversation in the NCAA Tournament was about Edey vs. Donovan Clingan. The narrative was that Clingan was more mobile and thus a better defender. Even if I still personally subscribe to that theory, the numbers didn’t necessarily back it up…
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Author : Adam Finkelstein
Publish date : 2024-05-16 15:55:48
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