Deandre Ayton Scouting Report: PHX Offseason Outlook
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Nate Duncan
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🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sunday night edition of the pod time to get rolling here with more from our draft scouting series |
| 0:06.0 | Deandra Aiden today is looking forward to seeing him a player that you and I saw in his nascent stages of development at the |
| 0:15.3 | Hoop Summit in |
| 0:17.0 | 2016 which was a really weird situation from he had such a miserable experience that he didn't go back for the next years |
| 0:24.1 | Hoop Summit when he would have been a senior this was his junior year and this is a team that had no guards and lost the game |
| 0:29.6 | By 40 so that had been our initial impression of him |
| 0:32.8 | But as a guy going into his senior year he was definitely |
| 0:37.5 | Behind where some of the other elite guys that we've seen at that event |
| 0:41.2 | And he's made great strides of course since then also saw him at a deedest nations later that summer as well going into his senior year |
| 0:48.4 | Where do you want to start with him? I mean yeah now I actually saw it in three separate events in 2016 because I saw him two and a half years ago |
| 0:56.7 | Play against prolific prep and what's striking about Aiden is that well |
| 1:01.5 | He has certainly improved and there are lots of elements of his game that are at least a little bit different |
| 1:07.1 | I think the general contours the like the shape the general contours are the same and what I mean by that is |
| 1:13.5 | immensely physically talented on the short list of the most physically talented players of his size that I can remember |
| 1:19.5 | But then it is applying that consistently and adding in I thought that Queen in the glass |
| 1:25.7 | Falk did a nice job of calling this feel could also call basketball IQ wherever you want to go in that kind of realm |
| 1:31.5 | Those are the areas where I where I was concerned with him then and where I am still concerned with him now |
| 1:36.2 | Let's talk about that physical profile first because that is of course |
| 1:39.5 | What makes him stand out to a 75 wingspan? |
| 1:42.7 | 7-1 height |
| 1:44.2 | 93 standing reach those are very solid numbers for a center |
| 1:48.4 | He's an excellent leaper as well a power dunker around the rim and |
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