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Lance Stephenson: NBA Draft
May 28th, 2009
by Jeff Fox
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2009 NBA DRAFT: NBA Mock Draft - Top 100 Prospects - NBA Team Needs/Capsules - 2010 Draft |
Lance Stephenson
College: Undecided
Class: Freshman
Position: SG
Height: 6’5”
Weight: 200lbs
Accolades: co-Mr. Basketball - New York - high school (09), McDonald’s All-American - high school (09), Second Team All-USA - USA Today - high school (09), Second Team Parade All-American - high school (08), First Team All-USA - USA Today - high school (08).
Scouting Report: A strong, explosive scoring guard.
Strengths: Good size and strength. Very good ball-handler. Extremely aggressive. Used to being in the spotlight. 6’10” wingspan. Good pull-up jumper. Can be an explosive scorer. Good passer.
Weaknesses: Questionable attitude. Bad shot-selection. Considered to be selfish. Had some off-the-court issues. Isn’t outstandingly quick or athletic.
Projected 2010 Draft Range: First round pick.
Consensus: Lance Stephenson stock is in decline and needs to do some serious work to fix it. Whatever college he chooses to go to, he should consider staying more than one year or risk being an NBA bust.
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Comments
Easily as strong as LeBron at his age???
Submitted by Erich (not verified) on Sun, 2009-05-31 11:42.
No way! Mentally, physically, desire, will to win - all in deficit compared to LeBron at his age. Lance does not love the game as much as he loves Lance. This is a kid with real problems. He needs to play with a strong disciplinarian in college for 2 solid, drama/issue free seasons before anyone can reasonably believe that he will be anything but a bust at the pro level.
Who cares about Rucker? High Schoolers can go all out at Rucker. No one plays D. If you can score, and have a following, you can do well. College, and the NBA are about mental toughness, coachability, will to win, physical conditioning. All things this kid has serious deficiencies in.
Bad News...
Submitted by Erich (not verified) on Sun, 2009-05-31 11:34.
Questionable attitude? No question about it - Lance has a lousy attitude. All over the place in the McDonald's game. During his senior year spent more time complaining about calls that did not go his way. Did not appear very coachable. I am not loving this kid. The game has come too easy to him, no hard work, no obvious love of competition. Could not will his team to a Federation Championship. I would not recruit, or draft this kid. I see problems in his basketball future that out weigh his obvious talent.
if they could just put down
Submitted by jermain colbert (not verified) on Sun, 2009-06-21 21:18.
if they could just put down their ego for a minute and let the world know where you really want to play ball which is ku. just tell bill you want to come play ball for him
Lance in the NBA
Submitted by Older and Wiser (not verified) on Mon, 2009-06-22 12:16.
Lance will be a star in the NBA. By the time he gets drafted, his true NBA position will be obvious both to scouts and to a more mature Lance himself, namely that of a big point guard who distributes brilliantly, makes aa lot of steals, and who also earns admiring props as an opportunistic scorer whenever he catches the defense napping for even one second.
lance can do it in NBA!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-07-02 06:11.
There many players are in NBA that has to do in their attitude.lance should figure it out and even work it out to play in NBA.
If Lance has a bad attitude we can't about that because he is what he is and what he does in nowadays will still be figure out in NBA....
good luck...play well and good on court and of court....
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Jeff Fox is a freelance journalist based an hour outside of Toronto, Canada. While attending University of Waterloo (Canada) earning a B.A. in Economics and Management Studies, Jeff managed to walk onto the school’s varsity basketball team, the Warriors, for 2 seasons. His final year riding the pine for the Warriors saw the team make it to the CIS (Canada’s NCAA equivalent) Final 8 tournament. In addition to this site, he is a regular contributor to SLAM magzine (& online) and The Hoops Manifesto. When he isn’t planted in front of his computer he spends the rest of his time with his wife, Lisa, his son, Adam and his dog Jeannie.
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Give him a chance
Joe Johnson can barely dunk. The only player Paul Peirce jumps higher than on the Celtics is Michael Rappaport, I mean Brian Scalabrine. He is so strong its ridiculous. Easily as strong than Lebron was at this age. He can play. I don't know how that translates to the NBA, but he can play. He dropped 35+ on Jamal Crawford pre 9th grade and won MVP at rucker with several NBA players including JR Smith, Crawford, and Nate Robinson. His only problem was he never really had any guys near his level on his teams like many prep players do, so he never had to share the spotlight. Not that he doesn't, but I think he would've been a lot better had he went to catholic school with Devin Ebanks instead of transferring to Lincoln