Justin Anderson is a 6-6 small forward from Virginia who is known for playing lockdown defense as well as shooting 45% on threes as a junior, an immense improvement from his first two years in college. Anderson, was a second team All-ACC selection despite missing the last eight games of the regular season with a fractured finger. Anderson averaged 12.2 and 4 rebounds in 27.8 minutes per game. He was ACC Sixth Man of the Year as a sophmore. Virginia was ACC Champions his last two seasons.
I expect Anderson to become a rotation player as a rookie seeing backup minutes at both the 2 and 3.
With the 52th overall pick in the second round the Mavs took 7-2 center Satnam Singh Bhamara, the first native of India to be selected in the NBA Draft. Singh played for IMG Academy in Florida this past season. Expect to see him playing for the Texas Legends.
Quotes from Rick Carlisle on Anderson
"So we’re really happy we got a chance to draft Justin Anderson from the 2015 NCAA College World Series champion Virginia Cavaliers. Justin is a unique kid. He’s a 3-year guy. He’s gotten better each year. He is very physically strong. We feel he’s a wing player that could either play the 2 or the 3. We believe that he’s got an NBA body. He’s one of the strongest kids in the draft, positionally. He’s in a good position coming here. We have to fill roster spots. We need to get younger. And so he makes a lot of sense to us and we need to improve our defense. We feel he’s a solid defender and he’s a guy whose shooting has gotten better each of the last three years. He shot 45-percent from 3 this past season. We spent quite a bit of time with him. We interviewed him in Chicago. We watched his workout there. And then he was in here two or three weeks ago for a workout and we got a chance to spend more time with him. He’s a terrific kid and he’ll represent this franchise well."
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