A scouting report on NBA draft prospect Dailyn Swain:<\/p>\n
Position: Wing\u00a0<\/p>\n
Height: 6-foot-6.5 (without shoes)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weight: 211 pounds\u00a0<\/p>\n
College: Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n
Strengths<\/p>\n
Swain played his first two seasons at Xavier and then ended his college career by posting 17.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game for a Texas team that went from the March Madness bubble to the Sweet 16. He made major year-over-year improvements in college. As a freshman, Swain averaged just 4.6 points in 18.9 minutes per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019ll struggle much with the physical side of the professional game. Swain has NBA wing size, including a 6-10 wingspan<\/a>, and he\u2019s happy to play through contact. That trait boosted Swain\u2019s efficiency, since he converted plenty of contested shots inside and drew free throws at a high rate (5.6 foul shots per game.) Even with his issues as an outside shooter \u2014 more on that below \u2014 Swain\u2019s 63.6 true shooting percentage ranked fourth in the SEC.<\/a><\/p>\n Swain contributed for his team in many departments last season, among them driving, passing and rebounding. The 20-year-old was especially impressive as a driver, often capitalizing on chances to attack the rim with an eye-catching mix of subtle ball handling skills and force.\u00a0<\/p>\n In his draft guide, The Athletic\u2019s Sam Vecenie wrote<\/a> that Swain is \u201cone of the best drivers in the class, slaloming through cracks and creases with dexterity and stride length.\u201d<\/p>\n Weaknesses<\/p>\n Swain\u2019s shot is the most obvious flaw in his game.\u00a0<\/p>\n He\u2019s had a positive trajectory as a shooter, rising from 4 for 26 beyond the arc as a freshman (15.4 percent) to 32 for 93 last year (34.4 percent). And it\u2019s a plus that he hit 81.5 percent of his free throws in college. However, other details with Swain\u2019s shooting are less encouraging. His catch-and-shoot jumper is somewhat of a shot put motion<\/a> and he doesn\u2019t fire it quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n Not every NBA role player needs to be a knockdown shooter. Still, it\u2019s hard for a perimeter player to receive substantial playoff minutes without being both willing and able to sink jumpers. It seems valid to question whether Swain will keep progressing and clear those bars. If he doesn\u2019t, NBA defenses may very well load up on his drives and curb his effectiveness as a slasher.\u00a0<\/p>\n Swain grew up as a skinny, selfless point guard<\/a> and still has a sense for how to set up teammates. He\u2019s not a brilliant passer or rock-solid decision-maker, though. Swain averaged 2.7 turnovers at Texas and had two games with five turnovers in the NCAA tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n There\u2019s a variety of opinions from draft experts on Swain\u2019s defense. The Ringer\u2019s J. Kyle Mann <\/a>noted that Swain was in the 95th percentile nationally for his position in steal rate and \u201canticipates passing windows well.\u201d Vecenie called Swain \u201ca below-average defender at Texas\u201d<\/a> despite his physical tools, largely because of off-ball lapses.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fit\u00a0<\/p>\n Swain\u2019s knack for generating his own offense and getting into the paint could be quite helpful for a Sixers team that was light last year on shot creation outside of their stars.<\/p>\n The massive unknown is whether Swain can continue being an elite driver (or at least a good one) in the NBA. He\u2019ll likely need to prove himself as a jump shooter to truly pan out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scouting report on NBA draft prospect Dailyn Swain: Position: Wing\u00a0 Height: 6-foot-6.5 (without shoes)\u00a0 Weight: 211 pounds\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,13329,2113,89288,88517,99],"class_list":["post-715812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sixers-analysis","tag-sixers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}