Dream Fits: Pacers, Spurs, Rockets

Overall Grade: 57.34

Projected Position: C/PF

Strengths:

• Good switch decisions when teammates are trailing

• Comfortable & effective handle for his size utilizing a spin move well on drives

• Solid ability to use physicality on straight line drives to mask his lack of speed & affect shots from a trailing position

• Elite pass accuracy, able to fit balls through tight windows

• Great pass timing & recognition on cuts

• Solid ball pressure in zone looks

• Defensive weaknesses masked in zone looks

• Diverse ability to score in iso post-up situations using strength on the low block, as well as a high-quality Dirk fade

• Good hustle & effort in transition trail situations

• Good timing on board crashes & cuts putting himself in good positions for rebounds

• High drop coverage IQ

• Quick recognition of doubles & pass outs

• Good touch around the rim

• Strong boxouts, screens

• Good motion on 3's with floor spacing ability & comfortable as an off-ball scorer

• Good ability to finish through contact, especially off jump stops & comfortable drawing physicality in his drives

• Solid singular change of direction defense i.e. stepback

• Solid hands

Weaknesses:

• Awful recovery & closeout speed

• Much slower than guards & gets beat easily when having to change directions multiple times

• Late rotation on help contests as a big

• Attempts to help on drives in awkward positions, often not affecting shots

• Slow step ups on drop coverage on pull-up looks

• Poor extension & vertical defending perimeter shots

• Poor ball tracking & adjustments to midair rebounds

• Can be reckless on drives, often forcing into traffic or forcing low quality looks

• Runs into a lot of screens forcing him to switch & often isolating players on the perimeter

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High End: Alperen Sengun Low End: Sandro Mamukelashvili Median outcome: Santi Aldama/Boris Diaw/Kelly Olynyk Pros: Passing, shooting, size, rebounding Cons: Athleticism, turnovers Verdict: Very fluid for his size, but has the tendency to make too many turnovers by putting too much flash or just general tunnel vision. Wolf is sometimes too aggressive in looking for the pass as opposed to just scoring the easy point. Also an intriguing shooter with real volume from three, so possibly projects to be a pick and pop DHO big in the league when factoring in passing. What makes him even more of an enigma is his FT% which does not seem to correlate at all to his actual ability. The general big man stuff is okay, but there's questions on him in a point forward type role because Wolf's lateral athleticism is quite limited with him struggling against some of the lengthier players in D1 and it will certainly play a huge part on whether or not he will be able to keep up with more athletic players in the league.

p.s. really good dRating on this UMich team though, despite not being an amazing rim protector.

wolf is a very intriguing prospect.

a big man who runs PG? weird, but cool. while the jokic comparisons are bound to happen, i don't see it to be honest, i think wolf actually has more guard skills than jokic and he's just a very weird prospect with no real defined prototype.

not sure how he'll fit in into the nba and how teams could use him, but his skillset is far too intriguing to pass up on... someone to keep an eye on as the cbb season nears its end.

The type of unicorn that could be really really good but it's so unpredictable. He really is a high upside, high risk player. Still a long way from the finished product.

NBA comparison: Boris Diaw/Hedo Turkoglu

Pro Comparisons: Mortiz Wagner

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