Zoe Wadoux (SG 5’9″, 2001) from France
Zoe is a polyvalent and smart SF who can play as a SG, and she is also a SG who has good PG skills. She has good size and rising athleticism at this stage. Her explosiveness is not huge, but she still building her athletic package. French possesses good wingspan, knowledge and feeling for the game; and she displays promising offensive fundamentals as well.
In the D end, Wadoux displays a clever game, showing flashes of good activity disturbing on the passing lane and reading the O from the weak side the rest of time. She takes advantage of her size and wingspan as a SG for helping in D rebounding area (22 in 6 games last FIBA U16 Championship), and her knowledge and intuition package helps her to steal or deflect from the weak side. Zoe also possesses an interesting footwork to chase her match-up through the screens. Her dribbling fundamentals allow her to steal and push the ball from side to side in the correct way.
In the O end, Zoe already shows up as the great shooter she’s going to be. She displays a quick release, almost unstoppable when she is on fire, fearless determination to shoot in the buzzer, huge in the catch-and-shot after running through multiple screens, spot shot from the corner… her repertoire is deep and wide at this stage. But its O arsenal it doesn’t end in her shooting skills: the French is able to feed the post and share the ball in the correct way at the right time (good vision court and accuracy in the execution). As I told before, Zoe possesses enough dribbling fundamental to play as a PG when is necessary (both taking the break in open court and showing promising ball-screen ability).
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