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Welcome to the Pelicans: Yves Missi



Pelicans ended up keeping the 21st pick and used it to select Yves Missi (6'11, 7'2 wingspan, 235lbs).

Strengths:
- Great straight line speed
- Good simple decision maker; he will do the 'dunk or pass' thing very competently
- Screens well and makes contact with both shoulders
- Great mobility; should be able to play NBA drop defense fairly quickly.
- Good recovery skills - see the above drop comment.
- Has flashed occasional face-up skills; there is room for improvement there

Areas of Improvement:
- Not great in terms of defensive positioning. Prone to getting himself caught out of position and having to rely on his recovery too often.
- Very elementary processor; he's only played basketball for about 3 years and you can tell sometimes
- Completely limited to the rim; no finesse work, no stretch potential thus far. Rim runner at its purest.

Seen some people say he's a Clint Capela type - that's probably fair. You could also potentially say a young Serge Ibaka, in some ways, wouldn't be too far off.

Wish him all the best and welcome to the team.

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