NBA Comparison:

Strengths: Allen is a 6'5 combo guard with intriguing size and length and excellent quickness ... His quickness and physical attributes should allow him to become a high level defender if he works at it ... Has four years of college experience ... Improved as a point guard during his four year career ... His a/to ratio climbed to nearly 2-1 as a senior ... A solid outside shooter hitting over 38% from 3 over his last 2 seasons on a good number of attempts ... Will turn 22 a month before the draft so he's young for a senior ... Fast in the open floor ... Solid one on one player due to his handle and first step getting into the lane ... Runs the pick and roll well, setting up his man and using his quick first step and ball handling ability ... An All Conference defensive performer. A good ball hawk using his long arms and anticipation to jump passing lanes (2.1 spg as a senior) ... Ball handling is solid ... Strong rebounder from the guard position ...

Weaknesses: More of a combo than a pure PG ... Has a bit of an unorthodox body/game ... Small school takes away from his luster ... Played on a terrible team which lost 15 out of 17 games in one stretch ... It's hard to get a handle on his ability to impact a team since his surrounding cast was so porous ... Despite his quickness, he gets a little out of control in the open floor and shows better efficiency making decisions in the half court ... Not the most explosive athlete. Solid but quicker than he is athletic ... Being a big PG, he should learn to use his size better and work on some post up skills ... Defense is something he still needs to put effort and energy into. He's got a lot of defensive potential considering his length and quickness but tends to gamble instead of just playing sound fundamental D and staying in front of his man ... Lacks range. His form breaks down when he gets too far from the rim ... Shot is flat. He needs to work on developing a better trajectory on his shot in order to get better results ...

Overall: Allen impressed at the PIT and has put himself in position to get drafted in the 2nd round of the 2011 draft ... Orchestrated a win over Final Four team VCU with a season high 26 points on 10-17 shooting ... Comes from an athletic family. Brother Mikki played 4 years in the NFL for the 49ers ...

Aran Smith 4/27/11