I like Warren a lot. Efficient with his moves and has a diverse arsenal of shots in the paint. It's the efficiency of his moves that I like best because I doubt he's going to be a team's no.1 offensive option and have the freedom to play with the ball a lot. He's going to have to be quick and decisive with his moves and he is. He's compares a little bit to DeShaun Thomas from Ohio State in the sense that both scored a ton of points in a major conference and yet weren't rated commensurately to their scoring average. He's a better athlete though, so he has a better chance.
If only he was a better long-range shooter. That's the one thing that's going to drop his stock. He must have had Rashard Lewis clips playing on loop because unfathomably, he has as long a windup. He brings the ball up from his knees. He unloads the shot quickly but he doesn't so much as shoot from his legs as from his hips. His has a very weird shot.
I have seen Warren play a lot. He has deep shooting range, although an unorthodox form. He is a way better 3 point shooter than his numbers would show. He also will take the big shots, as I watched him play for an entire season on the number one HS team in the country against world class 19u players every night.
Because Brewster Academy was so deep, he actually came off the bench for most of his senior year, but always ended up with a 25 plus point night even though he did not start.
Brewster's previous 3 small forwards before TJ, were CJ Fair, Melvin Ejim and Will Barton. Every night Warren was going up against current or future NBA players in by far the best HS/prep conference in America.
TJ Warren plays against the best at Duke during the summers, as he is tight with Nolan Smith. Warren also comes from a great basketball background. His dad played at NC State and David West's brother was his AAU coach. He was Roy Williams number one recruit target two years ago. All have said the same thing about his shooting form "it works so we are not going to mess with it."
No player in college basketball has a higher % of touches per possession than Warren. Yet he is an extremely efficient scoring at nearly 24 a game, while averaging less than two dribbles per possession. In other words, the ball does not stick with TJ, unlike some other volume scorers.
He simply is underrated. I think you know his numbers and he easily could be ACC player of the year. He is also a good rebounder and defender. He has had seven 30 point games to date this year and no other ACC player has had more than two, yet he has not won a single ACC player of the week award? What would ESPN be saying if Jabari Parker was putting up these numbers?
Will be interesting to see how he does in the NBA? So many unknowns with all these guys but I would not bet against hard workers like Warren and Vonleh.
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