Really Overdue 2010 D-League Draft Review
14th: - Austin Toros - Dominique Archie, South Carolina Archie is truly a pick for the long term, particularly when you consider that he will be out until February with the ACL injury in his right knee that ended his senior season after only 5 games. (The injury wasn't initially classified as a tear, but whatever it was, it's taken 14 months to recover from. Sounds like a tear to me.) Archie couldn't take a medical redshirt, however, as he'd already redshirted his freshman so that he could "physically mature." In that offseason, he had surgery to his right MCL. Two heavy right knee surgeries in four years. It's a concern.
When healthy, Archie has been (and should be again) an athletic, exciting and dynamic player. He runs, jumps, dunks, rebounds and defends, and has some offense both in the paint and on the perimeter. Archie's not a great shooter, has scant little off-the-dribble game, and doesn't handle the ball much, and he turns it over too much trying to do those things, but he affects the game in ways not too dissimilar to D-League veterans such as Paul Harris and Noel Felix do. Of course, without his athleticism, that's a problem.
