2016 NBA Mock Draft: High schooler Thon Maker to Toronto

<p>After delivering one of college basketball’s best seasons in recent memory — one in which he averaged 25 points per game on a 66.5 true shooting percentage — Buddy Hield’s senior year came to a close with a monumental thumping in the Final Four at the hands of the eventual national champion, Villanova. Hield scored just nine points in the 44-point mollywhopping, his second lowest total of the season. The performance exposed a few of Hield’s limitations; he is not yet able to regularly beat defenders off the dribble and he is not yet a consistent creator for his teammates when he has the ball in his hands.</p> <p>One performance, though, won’t define Hield’s draft stock, and Hield’s Final Four outing wasn’t as disastrous as it might have looked. The senior guard missed three open looks that were generated in 1-3 pick-and-pop situations where Hield functioned as the screener, a potential offensive wrinkle for NBA coaches to exploit.</p> <p>Hield is already a bonafide three-point shooter. He made 39 percent of his 834 attempts while at Oklahoma and has shown that he can hit them both off the bounce, especially going to his left, and in catch-and-shoot spots. At 22 years old, Hield is older than many of the other top 10 picks, but he still has room to grow. With one near-surefire skill, there’s a good chance he’ll be a valuable rotation player for years to come.</p> <p><em>To learn more about Buddy Hield, <a href=. SG. Oklahoma. Buddy Hield. 7. player. 73