NBA Draft 2019: 5 potential second-round steals

2. Jalen Lecque, Guard, Brewster Academy

The Step Back Big Board Ranking: Unranked

In the draft evaluation season, Lecque has impressed, working his way onto draft boards with a decent draft combine performance. The NC State commit has good size at 6-foot-4 with a 6-foot-8.5 wingspan, and he just turned 19, which should give him a little bit more room for development. He also might be the fourth-best athlete in the class after Zion, Brandon Clarke, and Terence Davis, and that should make him a fearsome transition weapon early on in his development process.

Lecque is going to be a development project, most definitely. He didn’t display much in terms of skill play at the prep school level, and there needs to be definite improvement as a ball-handler and passer if he has any hope of playing some point guard, which should be a projectible goal if you’re drafting him. There’s also the shooting question, as Lecque was an atrocious shooter at the AAU level even by the necessarily low standards of that setting. But there’s definitely tools to work with here, and a team that can bring him along slowly might be rewarded with a talented player down the line. He’s an interesting fit for Boston at pick No. 51, or Toronto at pick No. 59, because those two teams are probably ideal fits for him due to their G-League infrastructure.