Avery Wills 5'8 125 2023 Life Christian Academy, Chester VA / Dreamchasers United

Avery combines quickness and a crafty handle with three level shot making ability and most impressively a high IQ and floor leadership qualities. He's a true coach on the floor demonstrating sound game management and clock management skills. He communicates and he knows how to exploit mismatches. It's really impressive watching him run a team as he shows great poise even under duress and has solid ball handling skills. Avery is fast end to end with the dribble and has a degree of explosiveness attacking space. He is ball quick which makes him quicker without having to speed up because of sound fundamentals. Include his quickness and ability to stop and a dime and then blow by a defender and it makes for a difficult defensive assignment. Avery changes directions nicely and knows how to use hesitations effectively. He is a very good playmaker demonstrating very good vision and passing skills. He is really comfortable and skilled pulling up for shots off the dribble, one of his strengths and one that makes him such a good scorer. He can abruptly stop and elevate into his shot getting good elevation and his release is smooth and high. He uses his dribble effectively on penetrate and kick or penetrate and dish scenarios. Avery can play either guard position due to his shot making prowess and also knocks down the three point jumper at a good rate. The threat of his jumper compliments his quickness off the dribble and he knows how to take advantage of those attributes utilizing ball fakes on hard closeouts and attacking and doesn't need much time or space given his quick release. On the defensive end he is a harassing and busy on ball defender. He keeps his hands active and has quick feet and solid on ball defensive technique. He's strong enough and quick enough to get into the dribblers body and not get beat. Also has a long wingspan which helps both defending the dribble and in passing lanes. His quickness and anticipation skills make him a threat to get a lot of tips and steals off the ball. Avery has a ton of potential and great court awareness. He is an impressive athlete who brings great energy on every possession. It's going to be fun monitoring his growth as a player but he certainly has a lot of tools and natural instincts that give reason to be excited about his potential. He has DNA also!! Avery's blood sister is University of Georgia star Taja Cole. A McDonalds All American out of high school, Taja was the Jordan Brand Classic MVP and was recently among the candidates for the Nancy Lieberman Award which recognizes the nation's top point guards in women's college basketball. Avery's uncle is former University of Arkansas basketball star Tarik Wallace. His Mother, Starr Wills is the owner and CEO of Cap City Ballerz AAU organization. Avery Wills is one of the top playmakers in Virginia's 2023 class so add him to your summer 'watch list'.