Bison137
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08-08-19 07:01 PM - Post#286860
In response to Scotty-14
Supply and Demand might throw him in that role. From watching his tapes his handle and overall confidence looks solid but I don't see a lot of playmaking. For a backup PG just being able to not make mistakes is adequate however
One thing about Rice is that he has had little opportunity to play the point, having always been on teams with very high-level PG's. During his freshman and soph year at St. Anthony's, the team had PG RJ Cole, who is now at UConn, plus PG Ithiel Horton, who is now at Pitt. Then at Mater Dei as a junior, they had senior Kenny Jones, who looked really good at the point for Loyola last year. Jones had a dozen offers, including one from St. Joes. Finally as a senior at The Patrick School, the starting PG was Al-Amin Dawes, who had tons of P6-conference offers and ended up at Clemson.
Also Rice's AAU team had a number of quality PG's, including Jhamir Brickus, a 2020 player who has multiple A-10 offers and many others. Two of their other part-time PG's had multiple D1 offers as well.
So Rice ended up largely playing SG at his various teams. The question we will see answered over the next year or two is how good are his PG skills.
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