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