Eric Maynor is a four-year, small school point guard that some feel could sneak into the lottery.  I think any team in the teens that uses their pick on Maynor would be reaching, particularly due to the abundance of more promising point guards in this year's class.  

Maynor was obviously overqualified for VCU and would have fit in at just about any heavyweight program.  Being several clicks better than his teammate, Maynor almost always had the ball in his hands, creating his own scoring opportunities, as well as for teammates.  He tends to overdribble, something he won?t be allowed to do in the NBA.  Even though he can also play the off guard, he is not active enough when he doesn?t have the ball, falling into the trap of being a bystander.

A four-year point guard playing against the level of competition Maynor saw in the Colonial Athletic Association should get more easy shots for his teammates than he does.  His decision-making as a passer is not as refined as it really needs to be.  He can stand to improve the delivery and placement of his passes.  Maynor isn?t especially creative in this facet of his game and many of his assists at VCU strictly were a result of how much the defense collapsed on him because they respected his offense.

Maynor isn?t a particularly strong or athletic player, but he has a strong core, good balance and stays upright well with his dribble, which fosters a good court awareness and vision.

He doesn?t aggressively use screens, allowing himself to be taken away from the bucket and appears reluctant in his attempts to turn the corner on bigs.  

Maynor has an above average handle, but is more steak than sizzle.  Occasionally he lets the handle get a little too far ahead of him, which makes him vulnerable to being picked.

The thing Maynor is most skilled at, however, is getting just inside the free throw line for pull-up jumpers and runners when he is able to lose his man.  He has a beautiful floater when he is able to create that separation, but he will undoubtedly struggle to beat the NBA?s better on-ball defenders and even ordinary shotblockers will lick their lips if he drifts too far to the bucket.  When he attempts to elevate in traffic instead of shooting that nice runner, his attempts are increasingly difficult and decreasingly effective.  He even struggles scoring near the rim against players his own size.

He tends to need a fairly big radius to beat his man off the dribble and isn?t as effective when he only has a small sliver of space.  Maynor works better off the dribble in early offense, when he can use a little crossover  to setup the 10-foot floater, something no player in the draft can do as well as he can.

As a perimeter shooter, Maynor has a good shot (36.1% from beyond the arc, 81.5% from the line), but it is more streaky than pure.  He seems to lack some muscle when shooting from NBA distance, but he isn?t afraid of the distance and can be an accurate shooter when he gets open looks.  Since VCU scouting reports began and ended with Maynor, open looks will come with much greater frequency in the NBA.

When guarded well, Maynor becomes an extremely ordinary scorer and his pure point guard skills cannot overcome his ordinary physical gifts.

On the defensive end, Maynor will struggle against bigger and stronger point guards on a physical level.  He has enough lateral quickness to stay in front of most point guards, so he won?t be a liability on the perimeter.

His effort defensively is inconsistent, especially when in help situations.  But he is an intelligent player and certainly won?t be a diva, so he will naturally improve this area of his game when given a completely different role than what he was asked to do at VCU.  That role will likely top out as a 15-20 minute per night back-up point guard.

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