Scouting five-star C Baye Fall

Baye Fall is the No. 14 player in the 2023 On3 150 and the No. 12 ranked player in the 2023 On3 Consensus. The 6-foot-10 center averaged 18 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 2.7 blocks per game for the Colorado Hawks this Summer on the Adidas 3SSB Circuit.

Fall was the co-MVP of the Pangos All-American Camp this Summer and led the NBPA Top 100 Camp in both scoring and rebounding.

Fall took four senior year official visits to Seton Hall, Rutgers, Arkansas, and Auburn. His lone junior year visit was to Auburn. Those four schools are the final four in his recruitment.

In Fall’s words

“I’ll be looking for a good place that’s going to help my game grow to be able to play at the next level,” Fall told On3. “Somewhere I can be appreciated, and the coaches will be there for me and help me get the work done. I just want to be ready for the next level. Academics are important too because my family is really heavy on that.”

Baye Fall out here having fun with it 🤯 @TheBayeFall21 @ColoradoHawks @BattleAtTheRock @DenverPrep pic.twitter.com/QpnLUwQ6sS

— Jamie Shaw (@JamieShaw5) December 9, 2021

Fall’s game

You walk away from watching Baye Fall and talking bout his motor. The long-armed center plays with explosive pop as well as athletic fluidity. Fall moves very well; this leads to upside on the defensive end for the 6-foot-10 center.

Fall has natural anticipation on the defensive end of the floor. He can get his long arms in the passing lanes, and he is a balanced right-hand shot-blocker around the rim. Fall plays hard on both ends of the floor. While his footwork is still in the beginner to intermediate stages, his effort and length make up for many of his miscues on steps.

The five-star will need to continue adding weight, which will help his interior defense. Right now, Fall’s weak lower body allows him to get pushed around on the block. However, his athleticism and timing make up for some of that, blocking shots around the basket. He is very active down there; switching is no issue, and stepping up from the weak side to make a play or a rotation.

Fall moves his feet well, and his activity allows him to be switchable down a lineup. This summer, Fall’s primary man scored only 0.484 points per possession. His man, during Adidas 3SSB play, shot 24.5 percent from the field, and their possessions ended in a turnover 14.1 percent of the time.

On offense

While Baye Fall knows exactly what he is on the defensive end of the floor, he is still growing on the offensive end. That is not to say that Fall does not have tools, there is a lot there, and the flashes are intriguing; however, he will need to continue growing on that end.

In the games Synergy charted, Fall shot 50.3 percent on 15.3 shots per game from the field this summer. The majority of his offense comes from rim runs and out of the dunker spots. He is a vertical floor spacer due to his ability to park on the baseline and receive lobs. Fall is also an active screener.

The five-star does have touch, and he takes pick and pop threes with confidence. This is an area where Fall shows an upside moving forward. He shot 33.3 percent from three (on a small sample size of six attempts) and 67.4 percent from the free-throw line this summer. This is not something that is consistent at this point but keep an eye on its development.

Another piece of Fall’s offense is his offensive rebounding and putbacks. Going back to his length and activity, the center averaged 4.0 offensive rebounds in the games Synergy charted this summer.

On3s Recruiting Prediction Machine

As of this writing, On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM) gives Arkansas a 71.6 percent chance of landing Baye Fall, the five-star center.

The On3 engineering group teamed up with Spiny.ai to create the industry’s first algorithm and machine learning-based product to predict where athletes will attend college. Starting from the ground up, On3 built an entirely new product that utilizes data, human expertise, and machine learning.