Jayson Granger

Jayson Granger

Granger's decision to come to summer league now, after spending his entire career to date in Spain, is interesting. With his contract with Estudiantes this summer, perhaps this is his best chance of making the NBA. Granger continues to improve year on year, and, two years after being undrafted, is a thoroughly unspectacular but extremely solid and capable leader on the floor, steadily improving all facets of his game and yielding no noticeable flaws. Granger is a decent athletic with good strength, a solid floor game, an OK jumpshot, solid perimeter defense, and the guile to get to the rim and finish. He could very conceivably be an NBA third stringer.

Jayson Granger - Granger is the best Uruguayan guard on this list. Born in Uruguay to an American father (East Texas State star Jeff Granger, who starred in Uruguay for so long that he became a resident) and an Italian mother, Jayson has been working his way through the Estudiantes system for several years, and is now an important first team player. Granger is strong if not especially fast, and a good pace-setter, an improved floor general type with good if not outstanding passing instincts, timing, pick-and-roll game, court sense, decent defense, and enough of an off-the-dribble game to get by. He is a mediocre outside shooter, though, and struggled badly with turnovers down the stretch of the ACB season, after a very strong Eurocup campaign. This is perhaps to be expected, given that he's still young, and it's still the ACB.

Apart from the very last bit, I also just described Chris Duhon, which was deliberate.