2018 Draft Prospect: Kevin Hervey

[Chinook]

Height: 6-8 Weight: 215 Position: F Date of Birth: 07/09/1996 Team: UT Arlington Birth Country: USA Tankathon NBADraft.net RealGM Stats

[Drom John]

The Ringer: NBA Draft Guide
with Scouting Reports by Kevin O'Connor
Mock Draft 6.4

Spurs 49 KEVIN HERVEY
Small Forward, UT Arlington, Senior

PTS 20.5
REB 8.5
AST 2.2
EFG% 51.7

Main Selling Point Size and shooting
Age21.9
Height/Weight6'7.75''/212
Wingspan7'3.5''
Standing Reach8'11''
An energetic scoring forward who needs to rein in his wild go-to habits in order to fill a more complementary role.
Shades Of: Ersan Ilyasova, Jumbo J.R. Smith, Brandon Rush

[lmbebo]

2nd round?

[Biggems]

I really like him as a prospect.

I wish we had 3 or 4 2nd round picks. I would pick a bunch of G/F types. Hervey would be one of those picks.

[Drom John]

The Ringer: NBA Draft Guide
with Scouting Reports by Kevin O'Connor
Mock Draft 6.13

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PLUSES

Good spot-up shooter with a quick, high release and NBA range.
Active off-ball player who screens, sprints in transition, cuts to the rim and migrates on the perimeter to get himself open.
Changes directions quickly with the ball. He’s a good ball handler for his size, though it currently might be too loose for NBA standards.
Solid at-rim finisher who can use either hand, though he lacks elite burst or leaping ability on drives.
Shows a willingness to distribute the ball from the post.
Generally plays hard on defense and crashes the boards.

MINUSES

Tore his left ACL as sop re in college and his right ACL as a senior in high school.
Willing to shoot from anywhere on the floor, but that works against him since he’s not potent off the dribble and takes a ton of wild shots.
Commits too many careless turnovers with sloppy footwork and by telegraphing passes. The game seems like it’s moving too fast for him.
Teams may look at him as a small-ball big man, so he needs to develop more big skills such as post moves and footwork on the roll.
His defensive fundamentals need a lot of work. He’s too flat-footed defending the perimeter and falls out of position in pick-and-roll.