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Corey Brewer, 6-9, Junior, Small Forward, Florida
Fresh off a national championship, Brewer has been in Los Angeles for about a
week now, and is clearly still working himself back into shape after the
extended post-championship holiday him and his teammates took following their
triumph in Atlanta. From the workout we saw, it’s pretty clear that AIB is
trying to get Brewer as comfortable as possible creating shots for himself on
the perimeter by adding more versatility to his ball-handling and mid-range
game. While at Florida he was most effective as a catch and shoot player or
taking advantage of defensive rotations to explode off the dribble going left
and finish with a finger roll, Brewer has a lot of work to do on polishing up
his half-court game and being a consistent shot-creating threat in the NBA.
Has obviously has some outstanding tools to work with, including great
quickness, a superb first step, and the kind of smooth fluidity that you just
can’t find anywhere else. As we’ve mentioned many times this year already,
it’s pretty amazing how effective a player Brewer is considering how much
room he still has left to improve on his skill-set. His handle is pretty
loose, his jumper is streaky, and only weighing out around 180 pounds, he’ll
probably be one of the skinniest 6-9 players to play in the NBA in quite some
time.
With that said, Brewer’s shooting has a ton of potential as we saw in the
Final Four this year, where he was named Most Outstanding Player for those
who forgot. His shooting mechanics are clean and very fluid, with a crisp,
quick release, good balance, and the ability to get his shot off almost
whenever he wants thanks to his height and length. He shot around 70% from
16-17 feet out from what we charted, and about 60% from the NBA 3. Those are
decent, but definitely improvable numbers, although it’s not hard to
envision him becoming a very solid NBA shooter considering his mechanics and
work ethic. His shot can flatten out at times in terms of the arc he gets on
it, something that he’s already working on from what we were told. He put up
a ton of jump-shots in the time we saw him, and was pretty streaky overall.
Obviously not being a pure “drills” player in terms of his skill-set, it
was in the five on five pick-up game where Brewer really shined. He looked a
bit bored at times doing some of the drills, but his competitive juices
really got flowing once the ball went in the air. He made some fantastic
passes all game long whenever the ball was in his hands, including a
beautiful alleyoop pass to Martell Webster to start off the game.
Always there was his uncanny sense for sniffing out steals in the passing
lanes, and he looked incredibly smooth slithering through the defense with
his terrific first step to get his shot off. Despite his skinny frame, he
took the bulkier Marcel Jones down into the post on a number of occasions to
finish with a turnaround jumper or up and under, and on one occasion exploded
over the top of a couple of opponents for an awesome put-back dunk. Even
though Brewer later told us that he was instructed not to play too hard and
to avoid risking an injury at all costs, it was pretty hard for us to see
that on the court. At one point Brewer went careening off the court and
crashed into the weight room fencing just to save a loose ball. If that’s
indicative of Brewer’s innate competitiveness in a setting like this, one
can imagine how he’ll compete when every possession counts. The one negative
we could analyze from this setting was probably his pull-up jumper, which was
not really falling for him at a high rate.
All in all, Brewer looked and played the part of a top 10 pick, and
considering team needs factors and the strength of this draft on the wing, he
should not end up sitting too long in the Green Room on draft night.
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