Jaden Davis @PrepHoopsTN Fall Combine Recapture
Jaden Davis (Dickson) gifted the @PrepHoopsTN/AboveTheRimGym Fall Combine with an unforgettable, athletic bounce and miraculous upper/lower body strength.
How did he measure against the competition?
- Class of 2020
- 6’1″
- Wingspan — 6’7″ or 79″
- Standing Reach — 8 1/6′
- One-step vertical — 34″
- Height w/o shoes — 6’1″
- Height w/ shoes — 6’1 1/2″
- Shoe Size — 13
- Hand Span — 9.0″
- Hand Length — 8.0″
- Lane Agility — 13.76, 14.25
- All-Star Top 20
NBA Stylistic Comparison: 2018 Celtics Marcus Smart
College Projection: D2
The Fall Combine doesn’t include the max bench of reps of 185 pounds. If it did, Jaden Davis would have destroyed the field. He is a specimen. Equally capable of jumping over your head as he is to lift you over his head. Jaden is more than a behemoth though. He routinely showed off slightly better than average handles and knocked down a suprising number of pull-up jumpers. Davis, as expected, was a destructive rebounder. His energy is always high and investment is contagious.
Not a point guard. Jaden is and will be a wing for the rest of his career. His strength allows him to check the 1-3 positions.
Both Davis’ wingspan and vertical leap stood out as remarkable. Though he weighs around 220 pounds, Davis jumped 34″ off the ground. Though he stands 6-foot-1, his spreads his wings to 6-foot-7. The average NBA draft pool player wingspan according to DraftExpress.com, going back two decades, +4. More clearly put, Davis boasts a more foreboding wingspan than the average NBA prospect.
Weaknesses are few. Davis needs to improve his shooting percentage and maybe vocal leadership? He leads by example very well and actually involved teammates with less skill and size wonderfully. His willingness to work is inspiring.
He impressed one fellow combine participant.
“Jaden nearly postered a bigger dude,” recalled fellow Top-20 teammate Hunter Bedwell. “He just couldn’t keep his hands on the ball. Not many kids his size jump like that and attack the rim.”
“Dude is one of the most athletic kids I have seen at his height and I played against everyone this summer,” said Bedwell after recalling his Tennessee Tigers 17u experience. Jaden’s vertical caused a couple campers’ jaws to drop. It would be short-sighted to purely respect him as a leaper though. Davis featured a relatively broad game. He could help a D2 team as a secondary scorer, physical perimeter defender, and an elite offensive rebounder with a little passing vision as a benefit.
Very active hands. Sits down on defense.
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