Yves Missi: A Rising Star with Potential to Challenge the NBA

Although he will be 20 years old in the draft, Yves Missi’s playing experience is quite short. He only came into contact with regular basketball after immigrating to the United States from Cameroon in 2021. He is ready to challenge the NBA within three years, which also shows his high potential.

Position: Center
Height: 6-10 | Wingspan: 7-6 | Weight: 235 lbs.
Projected pick: Late first round to early second round

Speaking of Yves Missi, we must first mention his school Baylor. Baylor is playing much like an NBA team this season, with lots of hand-to-hand screens and three-man pick-and-roll combinations after half-court positioning. The division of responsibilities between ball handlers, shooters, and inside screens is very clear; along with the high intensity of the game, I think the Baylor game is easy to refer to.

But in such a reference game, Missi’s performance was very average. Let me mention again Missi’s background. Although he was already 20 years old when he was drafted, his playing experience is quite short. He only came into contact with football after immigrating to the United States from Cameroon in 2021- regular basket. He was ready to challenge the NBA, which also shows his high potential.

Missi’s potential can be seen in his dynamic and stable talents. He is 6-10 tall and has a wingspan of 7-6. He has a standard mid reach of 9-1, but has the same leaping ability as a wing. The base plate is very stable, the explosive power is quite good, and he can become a very good second-wave offensive player in the NCAA. He once grabbed 8 offensive rebounds in one game against Filipowski, and did a lot of rushes and second-wave tips, which completely overwhelmed Filip.

Of course, this is also due to his blocking habit, bounce speed, continuous bounce, and even rebound predictability. Due to the lack of finishing skills in the half-court offense, Missi served primarily as a pick-and-roll screener and transfer passer at Baylor, and was rarely a roll-in offense. Therefore, Missi’s job is naturally to rush for the second wave after rebound Offensively, the performance was also quite good.

But apart from the second wave of tips, Missi has almost no other skills on the offensive end. The poor performance mentioned above in pick-and-roll screening and hand-to-hand dealing is due to her screening ability extremely bad. . While the bottom line is solid, Missi’s habit of taking screens too early also makes it easy to avoid the screens he sets. Even the route selection of the roll in is not good. He often runs behind others while following the route, which is quite reminiscent of James Wiseman and DeAndre Ayton.

Even in the occasional inside attack after rolling in, Missi’s touch is not good enough. Although the actual shooting percentage of 62.8% ranks first in the Big-12, the offense depends entirely on the efficiency of the second wave of tips, and it can also be seen that Missi’s efficiency is much higher than the actual performance . Of course, as long as you give him a good handle on the ball, guide his path, and release his vertical threat, with Missi’s size and physical condition, he will be a terrifying aerial combat power. Just like Phoenix’s Ayton, with CP3 guidance, it can become an efficient double-ten machine. On the contrary, if not, Missi(?) is probably just a funny machine.

At the same time, the problem of Missi’s tactical understanding was also amplified by the Baylor system. Baylor hopes he will become a high-ranking tactical engineer and continue to provide him with high-ranking ball support. But playing high-post tactics well has nothing to do with Missi’s performance. Missi’s type is not called a support at all, but serves as a transfer station, passing the ball from the weak side to the strong side, and there is nothing else to do. At the same time, Missi has many incomprehensible thoughts. When the strong side runs a good play, Missi will ask her teammates to pass the ball to him, and then pass it to the weak side player. Forget, as a result, I got stuck in a good position and tried to catch the ball in the low post. In the end, I couldn’t even catch the ball. Not to mention that Missi was very jerky dribbling. often walks and makes second dribbles.

On the defensive end, Missi is also a very traditional basket defender. He is very good at individual defense, and even has good support defense and supplemental defense abilities. He is a direct defender in the basket. But when it comes to pick and roll defense, Missi, like Clingan, can only retreat, making her very limited. Not only does she fail to leave the outside line, she relies heavily on her teammates to avoid the screen to cover up the defense; if she has to be one-on-one with the ball holder, Missi’s defensive habits with the ball are different: the defensive distance is too far and the defensive range is too big, she will definitely being punished in the NBA.

So, although a jumper like Missi is very talented, according to the current fighting strength, can he convince the team to invest in the first round? I will put a question mark. Maybe Missi can stay in a tight system like Baylor for another year or two. If she can improve her screening ability and pick-and-roll movement within a year of college, a team might invest in the first round of the 2025 draft. .

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