Scouting Report
Strengths
Aggressive rebounder who averaged 2.1 offensive boards a game.
Plays with an extremely high motor. Runs the court hard, rebounds.
Stretch 4 potential. Shot 35% from 3, 47% from 3 over the last month of the season.
Good athlete with great mobility and length.
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Weaknesses
Very limited as a playmaker. 41 AST-76 TOs.
Unpolished half-court offensive skill set. Not much of a post game.
Average defender who may be considered undersized against top NBA bigs.
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Summary
Walker plays with a high motor and is a great rebounder. He crashes the glass on both ends of the court and constantly runs the floor looking for easy transition buckets. He has a solid three-point shot that has to be respected by defenses. He needs to refine his half-court skills as he is a limited playmaker who does not have a reliable post-game or mid-range shot.
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Honors
All-Pac-12 First Team (2022)
Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2021)
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Statistics
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Offers
Walker unfortunately did not fare well when defending out of position, ranking in the 34th percentile. He fouls often, and his numbers are inflated upwards because opponents shot 25% on 3s. He fares much better in switches than matching up out of position.
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This data was hand-tracked by AJ Wahl and Bryon Cook. Every single defensive possesion of each player's season was analyzed. This dataset includes all possessions when the defender is guarding on-ball, in man-to-man, and against a player not within their position group who shoots the ball, is fouled, or commits a turnover. The percentile listed above is a players standing compared to their postion group calculated by compliling and weighing various different metrics derrived from the hand-tracked data. This data only measures a portion of a player's impact, but it is clear that the ability to defend out of one's position group is a vital skill to contributing to winning basketball at the professional level.