Selected with the 21st overall pick in June’s NBA Draft, the 6-foot-6 Anderson quickly picked up the Mavericks’ playbook before heading to the Las Vegas Summer League in July. Anderson then didn’t take long to showcase why he was such an attractive prospect for the Mavs in the draft, starting all six of the summer-league squad’s games en route to the quarterfinals of the tournament and averaging 17.5 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 steals an outing.
Still, the former Virginia standout knows that he has much more to grasp in order to earn the trust of his veteran teammates and Mavs coach Rick Carlisle in Year 1.