Maurice Stuckey

Urspring’s combo guard off the bench, Stuckey seems to have nice potential due to his nice physical tools. He’s a smooth player who looks first and foremost to score, showing nice body control, a good first step, and a pretty floater once he gets into the lane. He can shoot the 3-pointer with solid range, and is solid in transition where his athleticism comes in very handy. Stuckey needs to improve his point guard skills to reach anywhere near his full potential. He looked like a pretty streaky player who wasn’t always up for the task when he was called off the bench. Still, he’s very young and obviously has plenty time to develop his all-around game.

Maurice Stuckey was probably the fastest player in the tournament. Living on his quickness and relying on his very solid ball-handling skills, Stuckey is a 6-1 point guard who loves to slash, shoot mid-range jumpers off-the-dribble and play in transition. He’s an electric guy, very active and pretty aggressive. On the downfall, he doesn’t seem like a bright playmaker, he repeatedly tends to overdribble the ball and he’s a very poor distributor. It takes him forever to find a decent passing option and therefore only came away with a few assists off the drive. Anyway, he’s still an interesting guy, very young as he was born in 1990, very well built, very athletic (he rewarded the audience with some spectacular plays such as blocks or dunks), and with a nice stroke from the mid-range area, even if still very inconsistent from the perimeter. Certainly a guy to follow in next year’s edition of the U-18 European Championship.