By Paul M. Banks
Kalin Lucas and Robbie Hummel
It seems like every college basketball season, there’s one player in the game who can move so swiftly, he’s on a level all his own. That player’s speed just jumps out at you so much that it appears unfair. In past years, Illinois’ Dee Brown and Texas’ T.J. Ford come to mind. Michigan State junior Kalin Lucas is this year’s model – except he’s a more consistent scorer and better distributor than Brown, and possesses a better jumper than Ford.
Illinois head coach Bruce Weber coached against Lucas four times in the Big Ten and described him thusly: “He’s as quick a player as anyone in the country. From top of the key to top of the key, he gets there really quick, and it puts you in a bind, puts you on your heels, he might be quicker than Eric Snow or Mateen Cleaves, he seems like one of those little bugs that just flies down. And they work at it.”
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Robbie Hummel
Purdue’s Robbie Hummel is a “point forward,” a very nice euphemism for a “tweener.” In the Big Ten game, he’s a big, tall point guard who can run the floor with decisive a height advantage over other point guards like Magic Johnson at Michigan State or Anfernee Hardaway at Memphis.
“Because I’m taller, when I bring the ball up I think it’s a huge advantage to how I can see the floor,” Hummel said during my exclusive interview with him. “When I was little, I always played guard. I wasn’t very big, but then I grew a lot between my eighth grade and freshman year, so with that I kind of kept my guard skills and tried to add some big man skills, but I’m kind of used to playing the point.”
The 20-year-old junior is 6-8 but just 208 pounds and projects to more of a tweener in the NBA; not big and strong enough to guard twos and way too skinny and weak to bang down low with the fours. So, he would most likely play the three in the NBA. He’s quick enough to play the one in college, but likely doesn’t have the same speed burst to keep up with point guards at the next level.
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