Philadelphia 76ers 2020 NBA Draft profile: Lamar Stevens

Weaknesses

Stevens has one major problem to getting drafted highly — his shooting. More precisely, his lack thereof.

Despite being mostly an inside player, he only had a 42.3 percent shooting percentage his senior year. From beyond the 3-point arc, it was just 26.3 percent (to compare, Markelle Fultz made 26.5 percent of his 3-point tries last season for the Sixers).

Hurting Stevens the most is that his shooting is not on an upward trend. He was 42.9 percent overall and 34.4 percent from deep as a freshman.

With the NBA focused so much on outside shooting (except Ben Simmons), even projected power forwards are expected to be able to knock down jumpers from outside.

Another point against Stevens is his age. He turned 23 years old on July 9, and while he is certainly not an old-timer, teams like to draft 18/19-year-olds who they think will have more upside in development.

Many times a young kid with promise never fulfills that promise but many NBA offices like to roll the dice nonetheless. At least with Stevens, teams will know what they are getting.