NBA prospects come in all shapes, sizes, and athletic ability, so if you’re not Victor Wembanyama or LeBron’s kid, you are being compared to those with similar profiles. When comparing apples to apples, the NBA’s main categories are shooting, defensive ability, and basketball IQ. Roddy checks the latter two boxes, and only sympathetic evaluators will consider his shooting.
While he works on the latter for the future, what he brings this year to Michigan basketball is an elite defender who is switchable one through three, whose instincts and long arms make getting by him and/or getting a shot off very difficult.