As the college basketball season is a mere two months away from opening tip-off, the sports media are already looking at next year's NBA draft. And San Diego State senior forward Dwayne Polee II is getting some love from Bleacher Report in this early pre-draft coverage.
This morning, Bleacher Report's NBA Draft specialist Daniel O'Brien identified five college basketball players that he believes are the most intriguing sleeper of their respective positions for the 2015 NBA Draft. He believes Polee is the biggest sleeper for the 2015 draft at small forward, writing that the former L.A. City Player of the Year could potentially be "a super-charged sixth man" in the NBA.
This comes after a season where Polee garnered the Mountain West Sixth Man of the Year and was a MW all-tournament selection. In his junior campaign, the human pogo stick averaged a career high in points (8.5), rebounds (3.3), field-goal percentage (.492), three-point field-goal percentage (.391) and countless other statistical categories.
O'Brien's decision definitely has merit, because Polee demonstrated that he has all the physical tools to be successful at the next level. He has phenomenal athleticism, a pull-up jumper from anywhere on the floor, and the one thing no coach can teach: length. With a 7-foot wingspan, Polee will be a matchup problem for opposing offenses as he can guard any position on the wing.
Then there is the fact that when the lights were the brightest, Polee truly shined. It was no secret that the Aztecs were not offensively potent last season, but the MW Sixth Man of the Year stepped up big-time, posting 14 points per game in both the Mountain West and NCAA tournaments on 54 percent shooting.
For more on Polee's NBA Draft potential, read Mountain West Connection's post from July titled "Will Dwayne Polee II be the next SDSU player in the NBA?"
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