Alessandro Gentile

Alessandro Gentile - 53rd pick, 2014
Find his footing again after a shaky season last time out, averaging 16.7 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game for Bologna back in Italy. Still can’t shoot from outside or the line, still shoots flat, and often on the way down. Also still not really an NBA athlete and probably won’t make it. But as a powerful slasher and post-up guard, Gentile’s production does stand out, even if the upside is capped.

Alessandro Gentile - 53rd pick, 2014
Left Milan after five years for a short unsuccessful stint with Panathinaikos and a shorter, more unsuccessful stint with Hapoel Jerusalem. Apparently open to a two-way contract, but this was a very poor year for him, and his already poor outside scoring got even worse. Needs a rebound year to fulfil power guard potential.

[...] Everyone else is considerably younger. Serbian prospect Stefan Markovic starts at point guard, and has recorded quite an interesting stat line thus far on the Eurocup season; 27.8 mpg, 5.7 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 4.9 apg, 1.8 spg. Pass first indeed. In classic Serbian fashion, Markovic is big for a point guard (6'5) and does the vast majority of what he does through pick and roll sets, unable to regularly create or hit his own shot but very capable of doing so for others, while doing enough defensively. Another draft prospect, and one of the best young Italians alive today, is swingman Alessandro Gentile, who is getting 18.8 minutes per game in the Eurocup despite not even being 18.8 years old. Gentile shoots 36.7 % from three point range, and takes three per game, a hint as to his intent. Standing at 6'6 tall, he can always get the shot off, too. But the shot is streaky, and Gentile is worryingly disinterested in doing anything else but shoot and score. Gentile can't dribble, doesn't pass, and puts forth scant little defensive effort, too slow to have any impact when he does. He complains a lot and doesn't have encouraging body language. Bit of a diva, it appears. But at that ages, he can still grow out of it. He's certainly being given every opportunity to do so.