To be fair he’s shown to be a pretty good shooter from the stripe and has a good shooting stroke.
Brief scouting report from 10 minutes of research and highlights. He was a tall lanky wing at Brewster Academy with Matas Buzelis and Taylor Bowen(at FSU). Think he played for Expressions Elite in AAU with those same New England guys.
Has started every game at Davidson in his three year career. His highlights scream Andrew Carr. He is a smoother mover and slightly better athlete than Andrew. Pure looking shot but obviously hasn’t shot much.
Obviously competition is a concern. He’s cooking their conference now and here are his stats in the Battle 4 Atlantis this year(Providence, Arizona, and Gonzaga): over 15 PPG, about 7 RPG, and 3 APG. Struggled against Zona of the bunch.
It’s too early for me to be thinking portal as mentally it’s different for me than recruiting. But I’d have to imagine this kid is on Pope’s white board of targets.
Big difference in him and Carr.
Carr:
- progression all 4 years before UK, last 3 years double digit scorer, last 2 years at P5 school (WF)
- before UK Carr was 94-273 (34.4%) from 3
- made 40.5% 3pt his 2nd yr at Delaware in 42 attempts, then with step up to P5 and more 3's made only 31.1% in 106 attempts 1st yr at WF, improving to 37.1% in 97 attempts 2nd yr at WF
Bailey:
- has also had overall progression all 3 years, but has not played at a P5 yet
- has made 29.4% from 3, mostly due to over half (60) of his 109 attempts last yr made only 21.7%, currently at 45% this year (9-20)
- this year his 50% (8-16) is now down (but still very good) 45% (9-20). Almost HALF of his made 3's came in 2 games (2-2 & 2-3) just 8 days apart, the rest of the season he is 5-15 (33.3%).
- like Carr 2 yrs ago at WF, he would likely see a lower % made from playing better competition, as well if he starts attempting more than 1-1.5 per game
I'm not saying he is a "No", he's worth keeping an eye on, but he isn't a "must get" at this point.
