From: [https://theathletic.com/3994696/2022/12/12/hollinger-pelicans-zion-griffin/](https://theathletic.com/3994696/2022/12/12/hollinger-pelicans-zion-griffin/)
It’s behind a paywall but here is the relevant points regarding the 2023 Canadian prospect:
>Fortunately, we do have one player outside the NCAA realm making some noise in Miller, a 6-10 Canadian who pulled out of last year’s draft after a rough performance at the NBA Draft Combine. He seems to have made the right decision, as his performances so far in the G League this year are likely to see him figure prominently on draft boards after the first 20 or so picks.
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>The G League Ignite team is taking its lumps this year — they’re 3-12 so far and have lost eight games in a row — but after Scoot Henderson (the presumptive second pick), Miller has quite possibly been their second-best player. He took another step forward in the past week with Henderson out of the lineup, putting up 18 points on 12 shots in a loss to Stockton and 23 and nine in a close loss to South Bay.
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>Miller is big at 6-11 but is very comfortable handling the ball on the perimeter, and just turned 19 — even after waiting a year, he’ll still be one of the younger players in the 2022 draft. Scouts have been waiting on his shooting and decision-making to catch up, but the’s made some real progress for the Ignite this year. While his left-handed shot still looks flat and a bit unthreatening, his progress into a respectable free throw shooter this year (79.2 percent) at least offers some crumbs of optimism. To really leverage his threat on the ball, however, Miller has to become more adept at seeing the floor when he goes to the cup; he has just 15 dimes in 11 G League games this year. For a big player slashing downhill, he’s also been weirdly unable to draw fouls.
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>All of that makes Miller … less than a sure thing, But the fact he’s a decent-to-good G League player at the age of 19 makes a compelling case that he doesn’t need to make dramatic strides to become a rotation player in his early 20s. Scouts got a good look at Miller during the Ignite’s two games against Victor Wembanyama’s team in Las Vegas earlier this year and he made a positive impression. He’ll get another big chance to up his stock at next week’s G-League Winter Showcase.
I decided this was worth highlighting beyond Miller being the latest in a wave of Canadian prospects and, more notably that Leonard Miller was one of the most heavily scouted prospects by the Raptors (they even [interviewed him](https://www.si.com/nba/raptors/news/toronto-raptors-leonard-miller-nba-draft-interview), and teams have a very limited number of players they can work out and/or interview) and was expected to be a later 1st, early 2nd round pick they could have selected prior to his withdrawal from the 2022 draft to pursue the G-League Ignite. Currently, he’s been mocked as a late first based on his upside and potential, which is a similar description to Miller last year. High upside (the most common comparison at the time was Paul George) but overall raw and likely a draft and stash role player you’d want to give plenty of G-League reps to before fielding them with starter-level expectations in mind.
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