Obi Toppin, Power Forward, Dayton
The National Player of the Year is wildly athletic, able to handle the ball and drive to the rim himself and is good in the pick-and-roll game.
Obi Toppin also began taking 3-pointers as a sophomore. Though it’s a small sample size at just 2.6 per game, he made 36% of them. In conference play, he made 42.2%.
As Toppin gets more comfortable, he has a chance to develop that shot into a weapon. If he can do that, he’ll give defenses fits as a screen-setter who can pop out or crash to the rim.
The one major flaw: Toppin is not a good defender. If he and Green are going to play together, he’s going to need to defend the post adequately when Green gets assigned to a perimeter player.
His key traits may also clash with Marquese Chriss, who is wildly athletic and blocks shots while not being a particularly strong defender.
While the fit may not be perfect, Toppin’s scoring abilities could shore up the starting power forward position and allow Chriss and Eric Paschall to rotate in and out at the four and five.
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