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Tobias Harris Too Good a Talent to Pass at Pick No. 25
Harris has a balanced offensive game that will equate to success at the next level. He can beat you inside with a soft touch in the paint or he can hurt you from outside. He will need to work on his consistent from three-point range as he only connected on 30 percent of them his freshman season.
He has an impressive basketball IQ and is a solid ball-handler for a forward.
Draftexpress.com writer Jonathan Givony thinks Harris as a variety of skills that make him NBA ready:
?The biggest intrigue around Harris stems around his versatility, as he's a solidly built 6-8 power forward with a very good skill-set and an excellent feel for the game. Harris is a tremendous mismatch threat at the college level as he has the ball-handling skills to take his man off the dribble from the perimeter, but is still big and strong enough to make his presence felt inside the paint on both ends of the floor.
Harris has the freedom to grab a rebound and go coast to coast on his own, showing really nice body control handling the ball fluidly in the open floor, and even being able to change directions on the fly.?
Good Fit or Bad Fit?
The 6-8, 225-pound freshman isn?t NBA-ready right now, but can gain valuable knowledge watching the likes of Carlos Boozer and Derrick Rose on a daily basis.
The Bulls don?t need anything in particular and drafting Harris would strengthen the bench. Harris doesn't want any part of the disastrous situation at Tennessee and is better off jumping straight to the pros now.
As an eventual replacement to Luol Deng, that's not a bad way to go for the Bulls this late in the draft.
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