Draft Report: George Hill
George Hill is another second rounder from a small school who has the potential to be a solid rotation player in the backcourt.
Hill is able to create his own shot almost anywhere on the floor. He gets his very pure shot off using the dribble and when tightly contested.
He has a perfect follow-through and release on the dribble as well as on the catch-and-shoot. Hill shot 45% from beyond the arc as a junior, which was a significant increase from his 30.8% as a sop re. He also shot 81.2% from the free throw line.
He can knife all the way to the bucket off the dribble by blowing past defenders or using really impressive, well-balanced spin moves. Hill won’t frequently dunk in the halfcourt, but he can elevate a little bit for a flush when given some space.
He is able to split defenders well and can finish from six or seven feet out in a variety of ways, especially the glass. Hill does sometimes float towards the direction of his movement when he shoots off the dribble instead of jumping up straight. This helps him get a clean look, but accuracy is sacrificed.
He has a great change of direction with the dribble horizontally and also does an above average job of getting the ball out ahead to the wings in early offense when running the point.
Hill has the mental make-up and ball handling abilities to play the point in the NBA. While not an incredible passer, he makes sharp ones, whether on post-entry or overhead skips and knows his limitations.
Before putting the ball on the floor, Hill will comfortably remain in triple threat position and use pre-dribble jabs and fakes. But, he does have a tendency to over dribble once he does put it on the floor.
Hill is a good rebounder for his size and is impressively long to the ball despite being 6-2.
Defensively, Hill does a few things well and has good athleticism but struggled at IUPUI with the small stuff, which was probably due to how heavily they relied on him offensively.
He has good anticipation for where the pass is going and gets his long arms out into the passing lanes for deflections and steals, but he gets spun around too inexcusably much on help defense.
Hill does a good job of maximizing what length he does have when closing out, but he is too frequently a matador defender. He is not a very good on-ball wing defender at all and, hopefully for his sake, it is more of a pacing issue than talent issue because he will need to substantially improve that in the NBA.
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