Coming Into His Own
And in his senior season, the player once praised for his potential alone finally began to tap into it. That year he was a key figure in The Rock School’s 33-4 record and eventual state championship. Embiid averaged 13 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks that campaign.
He had seen significant improvement in fundamental areas of the game, but still struggled in perhaps the most difficult aspect, defending without fouling, hence the deflated statistics.
Joel Embiid was one of the most highly-acclaimed center prospects in the last decade, but when fall rolled around and Embiid had arrived at Kansas, he was mostly an afterthought. After all, Kansas had just lured the country’s top recruit to come to their school, the player deemed the next LeBron, Andrew Wiggins.