As I said before with Little,
Low BBIQ with superb personal IQ
Great motor and plays hard in the real game with pretty good toughness and an edge
Reactive not instinctive
Low Feel for the Game
Elite Athleticism and Elite Tools
Elite Frame and Hands
Talented with low skill level
Terrible Team defender but good man defender with the potential to be elite.
Semi Average shooter but nice shooting touch with range.
He is an unique prospect but here is where I rate him:
Low BBIQ, Reactive and low feel for the game prospect type automatically puts him in class with Andre Drummond, Josh Smith, Dwight Howard, Randolph Morris, J.R. Smith, Thon Maker, Ben McLemore, JaVale McGee, Mario Hezonja, Cameron Payne, Russell Westbrook, Reggie Jackson, Ian Mahinmi, Skal Labissiere, Drew Bledsoe, Marquese Chriss, Brandon Knight, Trey Lyles, Nick Young, DeAndre Jordan, Kelly Oubre, Josh Jackson, Gerald Green, Austin Rivers, Miles Plumlee, Kent Bazemore, DeAndre Bembry, Jeremy Lin, J.J. Hickson, Derrick Williams, Bruno C, Zach LaVine, Rashad Vaughn, Shabazz Muhammad, Tyrus Thomas, etc.
A trend you will notice with most of these guys are drafted or signed for there great tools and ability to put up numbers or they just have tremendous tools.
Another thing you notice is everyone I named is talented, some very talented and those who made a long career are exceptional at one or two particular things but most of them were just busts.
If you look at the freak athletes as prospects not just great athletes, you shorten the list:
Andre Drummond, Josh Smith, Dwight Howard, Russell Westbrook, Drew Bledsoe, DeAndre Jordan, Zach Lavine.
Almost all of these guys had some type of NBA career which goes to say, being a freak athlete matters a lot in the NBA. Nassir is in a good place.
Those with elite physical tools and frame for position as prospects:
Dwight Howard, Russell Westbrook, Drew Bledsoe, DeAndre Jordan
If you notice something, you will realize something. No wings. I saw him mainly when he was older and NBA Classic but some said D. Wilkins didn't have much of BBIQ or the feel for the game. I don't know how true that is as a prospect. I also don't recall Nique being reactive or instinctive but from what I got, these types have been mainly PG's and centers. PG because they have the ball the most so it makes sense. Centers because defense. What separates Howard and Westbrook from Jordan and Drew is personal IQ and in Howard's case, how freaky he is athletically. Howard had off the charts functional athleticism while DeAndre's is just good as a prospect. Bledsoe and Westbrook are rare freaky athletes, Bledsoe is not called Baby Bron for a reason but personal IQ between the two couldn't be much different. Like Howard, Westbrook was exceptionally smart off the court, was accepted to Stanford as a student, not even for Basketball. Howard was well versed and he was exceptional student at his private school. Both Jordan and Bledsoe, personal IQ was lacking. Nassir is in a good place again.
What I discovered is the NBA has an automatic fail list. If you have low BBIQ, low feel for the game, reactive, and low personal IQ, you will fail 9/10 times. The rare exception is those who are freak athletes, with elite physical tools and frame for position as prospects. Drew Bledsoe and DeAndre Jordan were the rare exception to my study.
What I am really saying is, Nassir Little is in a rare field because wings generally have good feel for the game and if they don't, they are normally sharp shooters who can defend as sudo 3/D wings, defensive specialists off the bench or they are highly offensive minded scorers who play hard. Otherwise, they are usually bust. Nassir has all reason to be a flawed superstar. His tools, profile, motor and personal IQ says so but how will it look is the question. Obviously these types peak faster than the norm due to lacking feel for the game, BBIQ, and being reactive and not instinctive players.
As for Cam Reddish, he has average BBIQ, with a good feel for the game, very good personal IQ but he is reactive not instinctive. For modern NBA players, you always want instinctive players but a lot of them just aren't NBA good or as good as they were in college.
Instinctive Guys like Hunter, Zion, Coby White, Brandon Clarke, Culver, Goga, Claxton, R.J. and Darius on offense, etc.
Reactive players like Rui, Sekou, Cam, Nassir, Jaxson, (most NBA centers are reactive), etc.
Reactive players need others to make them better or easier for them.
Instinctive players make others better by decisions. Now of course talent, ability, athleticism, frame, size and all that matters as well. You can have amazing instincts like Lamar Patterson or Issac Humphreys and still suck ass like a bytch because you lack so much for the NBA game.
Teams usually have a good mix of both. In the Finals we had TOR/GS:
Toronto had more instinctive players like Leonard, Gasol, Lowry, VanVleet, Siakam, Green,O.G. and reactive players like Powell, Ibaka, Lin
Golden used to like instinctive players a lot but now have a mix: Green, Steph, Klay, Iggy, Livingston, Looney, most of their bench is instinctive guys but they usually suck.
With reactive players like Durant, Cousins, Bell, Cook, etc.
