Joy Egbuna
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Marissa Rimbert | Prep Girls Hoops Scout
Oak Cliff Faith Family Egbuna showcased poised up and under moves inside. On her turn around jumper, the shot is an automatic two. Her strength, size and length make her an interior menace. She runs the floor and rebounds well, making her an extremely difficult matchup.
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Read EvaluationSimmie Colson | Prep Girls Hoops Scout
Joy doesn’t bring much JOY to defenders as she’s simply OVERPOWERING around the basket and on the flip, if you’re challenging her, more times than not you won’t leave feeling happy. Her college-ready frame has always been there and the game has certainly come around, and yes, she always rebounded on both ends and played interior defense but she’s guarding her man outside the paint and dropping the midrange, as well as scoring off the dribble
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Read EvaluationSimmie Colson | Prep Girls Hoops Scout
Egbuna has been showing me bits and pieces of a variety of things she can do, like dominate on both ends of the paint and score with players literally hanging on her for the past two seasons, yet her work ethic took her from a back to the basket decoy that rebounded and defended a long time ago. Now, she’s blocking shots and handling the ball after ward, as well as hitting the short jumper yet one of her biggest hits for me was her stepping outside the paint to defend guards, even coming away with steals and let me not leave out “diving on the floor” for loose balls
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Read EvaluationSimmie Colson | Prep Girls Hoops Scout
Egbuna has continuously taken her game to different levels since I caught her in middle school so I knew he power in the paint would be a problem because she had a college ready body even then and that, coupled with strength and size told me a lot. What I enjoyed was her showing she was more than a “back to the basket” player and watching her not only control the boards on both ends and showing interior defense was her stepping outside the paint
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