Hudson Price @PrepHoopsTN/AboveTheRimGym Fall Combine Recapture
Hudson Price (home schooled) gifted the @PrepHoopsTN/AboveTheRimGym Fall Combine with mid-range shooting prowess.
How did he measure against the competition?
- Class of 2020
- 5’7″ PG
- Wingspan — 5’7″ or 67″
- Height w/o shoes — 5’7″
- Height w/ shoes — 5’8″
- Shoe size — 11.5
- Hand Span — 8.0″
- Hand Length — 8.0″
- Standing Reach — 7’3″
- Peak Reach — 9’7″
- One-Step Vertical — 28″
- Lane Agility — 12.87, 13.25
- Summer Combine Ranking — #20
- All-Star Top 20
NBA Stylistic Comparison: 2006 Grizzlies Cavalier Kyle Lowery
Bounds around the court like a bulldog Greco-Roman wrestler. Fantastic low center of gravity. Spider agility to all directions. Reacts quickly to every situation.
If Price is knocked off balance, then he recovers instantaneously. The communication from his eyes to his brain to his legs is incredibly swift. Combining his reaction time and athleticism with an emotional investment in the team’s outcome gives Hudson an edge. He plays better defense than his peers because these three things coalesce on that end.
Perhaps this extrapolation is inaccurate due the @PrepHoopsTN Fall Combine’s structure. The combine and showcase format typically, ok always, encourages players to show what they can do. When you ask a player to do his best to impress, then you get selfish players. It is an understandable reaction to the event’s structure. Consider this during this next assessment. Hudson Price gets tunnel-vision. When Price attacks the lane from the top of the floor, he is inclined to only consider the possibility of finishing a layup. Aggressive and purposeful dribbling is wonderful, but more formidable defenses, that have been organized by a coach and encouraged by dozens of practices, will find this blindspot in Hudson’s court vision. Price doesn’t consider the corner and wing shooters on the occasion that he is driving from the top of the key.
Price plays very spirited defense without gambling recklessly and yet he could be even more feisty and not suffer effectiveness.
Gritty. Needs to utilize his hops better. Hudson is a good leaper, but his mid-range and especially pull-up jumpers lack the fluid, seamless transition from legs to hands to release point. He doesn’t get as high off the ground as he can on each shot. The reason this is so imperative for Hudson Price specifically, and shorter guards in general, is plain. He will get blocked if he doesn’t get that release point higher. Our event did not provide him with enough taller guards (6-foot-3+) to incite this potential problem, but those guards do exist elsewhere.
Trained in 2019 with NextLevelSkills Founder Jeremy Pope.
Decent strength and plus physicality.
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