Dylan Harper

Harper is one of the most consistently productive and effective players in high school basketball. The southpaw is physically imposing in the backcourt with excellent positional size, very long arms, and a strong build. He’s also a late-bloomer who has continued to grow throughout his high school years.

Harper is a true combo-guard who is equally effective either on or off the ball. He’s even versatile in different types of roles as he can thrive as a team’s primary creator, as he did in the EYBL with the Rens, or as more of a secondary weapon, as he did with the USA Basketball u19 team. His poise, understanding of the game, and instinctive feel are constants.

He’s a solid athlete, albeit not necessarily totally dynamic. But he has such a wide array of weapons that he has no problem taking what the defense gives him and getting to his spots. He never gets sped up off the dribble, can make reads out of ball-screens, and be both a scoring and passing threat at multiple levels.

His shot can get a little flat at times (34% 3pt in EYBL play), but when he’s making threes, opposing defenders are forced to almost pick their poison.

Harper is also an outstanding perimeter rebounder (7.1/game in the EYBL regular season) with the size, length, and strength to eventually be a somewhat versatile defender, although he could potentially struggle with smaller, quicker guards and could still polish some of his fundamentals away from the ball on the weakside of the floor.

Overall, he not only stuffs all columns of the stat sheet like no other guard in the class, but he's extremely mature with an ideal mentality.

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