Michigan Basketball: 3 takeaways from Chaundee Brown commitment

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A versatile piece

What Michigan basketball is getting in the 6-foot-5 guard is a former top-40 recruit and a three-year starter for Wake, who has 73 total starts under his belt.

Brown averaged 12.1 points per game as a junior and 11.9 as a sophomore. For his career, he’s a 32-percent 3-point shooter and he’s a very good rebounder, especially on the offensive end.

Some might look at Brown and Eastern and suggest they are similar players but they aren’t. Eastern is a ball-handler who doesn’t shoot the ball much on the perimeter. Brown is the exact opposite. He doesn’t do well in ball-screen situations and is better suited playing off the ball.

He could play the two, but he’s not a great defender so he would probably fit better as a three or even a small-ball four in certain situations. Trying to find where he fits in depends on when he will play and there’s where we look next.

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