https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/st...rdog-recruits-became-2019-nba-draft-prospects
Good blurb on a few guys, but here is the write up on Grant
Grant Williams, Tennessee Volunteers (6-7, 236 pounds) -- No. 32 in ESPN mock draft(June 10), No. 30 in NBA Draft top 100
Williams played at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was outstanding in the classroom and impactful on the court playing beside Devon Dotson (Kansas) and Trey Wertz (Santa Clara). Williams was considered a top 150 player in his class -- highly productive, but never ranked. He was evaluated as a four-star recruit with a grade of 81, what we'd call a "high major minus."
2019 NBA draft[/paste:font]
Get ready for Zion, Morant and more.
• 2019 mock draft
• Scouting likely first-rounders
• Full draft order
• Top 100 draft rankings
High-major coaches saw an undersized post with a strong lower body, great leverage to get angles, a scoring skill set and a tremendous basketball IQ. But Williams' stamina and excess weight, along with his positional height, were the biggest questions marks. His body was strong but carried extra weight, and he played at the rim but not above it, as he struggled scoring over length. It was these factors that gave most of the high majors pause.
Williams visited Yale, Princeton and Richmond before he committed to Tennessee; he also garnered interest from Rutgers and Texas Tech.
His emergence as an NBA prospect came in large part because Williams played for a coach, Rick Barnes, who is fanatical about strength and conditioning. Williams was strong but needed to transform his body weight and get his percentage of body fat down. It was after his freshman year that Williams got serious about his body.
"We were having lunch in the offseason and he would text his nutritionist on what he could eat," Providence Day coach Brian Field said.
Williams also went to UT as the Vols will rebuilding, which provided him with a major opportunity. That chance was exactly what Williams needed, helping him develop under Barnes into the SEC player of the year and a possible NBA first-round draft pick by next week.
Good blurb on a few guys, but here is the write up on Grant
Grant Williams, Tennessee Volunteers (6-7, 236 pounds) -- No. 32 in ESPN mock draft(June 10), No. 30 in NBA Draft top 100
Williams played at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was outstanding in the classroom and impactful on the court playing beside Devon Dotson (Kansas) and Trey Wertz (Santa Clara). Williams was considered a top 150 player in his class -- highly productive, but never ranked. He was evaluated as a four-star recruit with a grade of 81, what we'd call a "high major minus."
2019 NBA draft[/paste:font]
Get ready for Zion, Morant and more.
• 2019 mock draft
• Scouting likely first-rounders
• Full draft order
• Top 100 draft rankings
High-major coaches saw an undersized post with a strong lower body, great leverage to get angles, a scoring skill set and a tremendous basketball IQ. But Williams' stamina and excess weight, along with his positional height, were the biggest questions marks. His body was strong but carried extra weight, and he played at the rim but not above it, as he struggled scoring over length. It was these factors that gave most of the high majors pause.
Williams visited Yale, Princeton and Richmond before he committed to Tennessee; he also garnered interest from Rutgers and Texas Tech.
His emergence as an NBA prospect came in large part because Williams played for a coach, Rick Barnes, who is fanatical about strength and conditioning. Williams was strong but needed to transform his body weight and get his percentage of body fat down. It was after his freshman year that Williams got serious about his body.
"We were having lunch in the offseason and he would text his nutritionist on what he could eat," Providence Day coach Brian Field said.
Williams also went to UT as the Vols will rebuilding, which provided him with a major opportunity. That chance was exactly what Williams needed, helping him develop under Barnes into the SEC player of the year and a possible NBA first-round draft pick by next week.
