4. KZ Okpala, Wing, Stanford
Okpala certainly looks the part of an impact player on the wing. He has impressive length, end-to-end speed and leaping ability. He’s a reasonably confident spot-up shooter and also flashed the kind of vision and control in the pick-and-roll that could make him useful as a secondary creator on offense. All his physical tools should make him an impact defender.
However, he’s still lacking a lot of the basic skills that would bind his strengths into a definitively positive package. On defense, he frequently gets lost off the ball and allows ball-handlers to put him in bad defensive positions where he’s forced to try and compensate with athleticism. On offense, his ability to finish and protect the ball in traffic are a concern and the fact that his pull-up jumper is a complete mess means there’s almost no chance of him turning into an efficient three-level scorer or primary creator. If anything about his spot-up shooting doesn’t translate to the NBA, something like Evan Turner might be his ceiling.