Aixa Wone (PF 6-2, 2000) from Spain after FIBA U16 Udine 2016
Aixa is a prospect with a good athletic package, but still a nice room of improvement. Her good length and interesting size, along with her wingspan and promising mobility, make Aixa a player who needs to be followed. Wone runs really well the court, but she is a bit slow in the D-slide (struggles a bit guarding a real SF)
In the O end, Wone displays a good mobility without the ball, and her shooting skills are really good (stance, high point release and final stroke) and possesses an interesting shooting range (good mechanics behind the arc). Wone displays a good touch close to the rim and ggod footwork back to the basket, and we can see that she is acquiring a good skill set inside the paint. Aixa is able to put the ball on the floor, which allows her to play face-off plays as a Stretch-4; but she needs to keep improving her dribbling skills to become a good ball-handler. She is an unselfish player, who is able to find her teammates either in an inside-outside pass or passing on the move. Although she works the Offensive rebound, Aixa needs to be more aggressive coming from the wing.
In the D end, the Spaniard, can guard other big players with efficiency, and doesn’t refuse the contact fighting at block, but she seems a bit shy when comes from the weak side. She should be more overwhelming as a rim protector. Aixa has a good boxing-out discipline and runs with energy from O end to the D baseline. In the flash-and-recover situations (with room to improving), Wone displays her good mobility and big wingspan.
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