NBA Mock Draft 2017, Week 10: Markelle Fultz lands in Boston

The Milwaukee Bucks snagged a second round steal in the 2016 draft by selecting Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon with the 36th pick. The player most likely to fulfill a similar role to Brogdon in this year’s class is Villanova’s Josh Hart. If one Brogdon is good, then two Brogdons is better.

The 6-foot-5 guard is not the most athletic prospect, but he’s a dogged defender and rebounder who has averaged 1.5 steals and 8.0 rebounds per 40 minutes over the course of his career. Hart plays with a rare form of toughness and competitive spirit and will fight for every loose ball despite being his team’s best player.

Where he has made strides as a senior, though, come on the offensive end. Hart seems to have developed into a bonafide 3-point shooter. As a sophomore, he made more than 40 percent of his triples, but his bad free throw percentage (67.0) left lingering questions. As expected, Hart regressed back to 35.7 percent as a junior, but did improve his free throw markers (75.2 percent). As a senior, both of those numbers have seemingly stabilized. Hart is converting 40.6 percent of his 3-pointers while shooting 81.7 percent from the free throw stripe. That alone is enough to make him a viable 3-and-D prospect, but Hart has also shined as a secondary ballhandler for the Wildcats this season. With former point guard Ryan Arcidiacono no longer around, he has been tasked with running plenty of pick-and-roll. He’s shown great craftiness getting to the rim and is able to draw a high number of fouls when he gets there (5.2 per 40 minutes). Hart has also improved as a distributor, raising his assists per 40 minutes from 2.5 to 4.2 as a senior.