2020 NBA draft profile: Georgia guard Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards weaknesses

That raw potential is a double-edged sword for Anthony Edwards. While the tools are there to develop, his decision-making is so poor at times that it could severely hinder his upside at the NBA level. Particularly in the form of shot selection, Edwards displays poor judgment far too often and it has a damaging impact on his statistical output.

Per Synergy, Edwards shot just 28.1 percent on his jump shots, scoring a woeful .767 points per possession. Even specifically on catch and shoot jumpers, which are significantly higher potential scoring opportunities, he shot just 28.9 percent and scored .855 points per possession. If he can cut out some of the worst shots he takes, that number should naturally rise at the next level, but there’s a serious reason for concern that especially on lesser teams that would need him to step right in and produce (like the Charlotte Hornets for example), these bad habits may continue.

The decision-making spills over into his playmaking, where although he’s a reasonable passer, he can be a beat or two slow in making the right pass if he decides on the right one at all.

His effort is not consistent, or at least wasn’t in his freshman year at Georgia. Sometimes we find that effort is in there, buried beneath apathy created by playing a one-year stint of college basketball that a prospect is simply not invested in, waiting to be unleashed when that player reaches the ultimate goal of the NBA.

And sometimes we don’t.