2020 NBA draft profile: Georgia guard Anthony Edwards

Overall outlook for Anthony Edwards

There’s no question that Anthony Edwards has plenty of potential to be an NBA player, but that’s essentially where the conversation ends at this point. His star-potential leaves you wanting, and that may simply not be on the horizon for him.

As a top-three pick, we may find that he ends up being just a guy, and that’s going to be a blemish on both him and whichever team drafts him. Of course, in this draft, no general managers are going to get fired for drafting Anthony Edwards and seeing him not turn into The Guy for their organization, which makes it a fairly low-stakes and equally low-upside situation more likely than not.

Some of the more concerning issues on Edwards’s stat sheet may be fixable with just a tad of NBA coaching, like the improved shot selection. His pick and roll output wasn’t great in his season at Georgia, but in the NBA he’ll be playing with bigs who actually know how to set a screen, which will help unlock some of his potential.

He needs plenty of refinement, and some of his bad habits will need an abundance of work to unlearn, but with the right setting and coach, just maybe he’ll be able to live up to the expectations of being a top-three pick in the NBA draft.