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Paul McNeil Jr.
SG · NC State
Three-point specialist
What college players who played like him went on to do · NCAA 2026 (34 games, 28.7 min)
Outlook computed on 13 Sept 2026 · Draft 2027
NBA reach history
17 / 236 — Of the 236 college players who genuinely resembled him, 17 reached the NBAWhat became of them
Typical comps · 25 NBA analogs · median distance 2.064
Style comps
What do they share? lives off the three · scores efficiently · connects from three · not a creator
What do they share? lives off the three · scores heavily for his minutes · few hands in passing lanes
What do they share? connects from three · lives off the three · not a creator · scores heavily for his minutes
Similarity of STYLE, not of quality: it measures how someone plays, not who is better. Every career in the cohort actually happened — it describes what became of similar profiles, and is not a forecast about this player.
Back-tested on 3,259 college players judged without looking at anything after their season. The reach history SEPARATES (AUC 0.71) — but mostly it tells "looks like an NBA player" from "doesn't": within each quintile AUC drops to 0.51-0.61, and among Draft Combine invitees to 0.50. The ordering of careers within the cohort does NOT hold (Spearman 0.10). It is a record, not a forecast.
Method: per-40-minute production and shot profile, standardized within his own season; Euclidean distance against 26.550 college seasons from 2005-2021 with a known NBA outcome. No language model in any decision.