Darius Garland, Vanderbilt
Draft Prospect Outlook
Strengths:
Playmaking, scoring, ball-handling are all elite skills; crafty finisher around the basket; threat to score from anywhere on the floor due to elite pull-up game; shifty and heady point guard who plays with great feel and instincts with and without the ball in his hands
Weaknesses:
Durability; defense; ability to finish through contact due to lack of physical strength, which will improve with time; score-first more than a traditional point guard
Deeper Dive:
• Combine: Chose not to participate
• Pro comparison: Damian Lillard
• Played only five games in college after sustaining season-ending knee injury to meniscus
• Rated as the No. 2 point guard prospect as a high school recruit when he signed with Vanderbilt in 2018