Yarden Garzon - WNBA Mock Draft Roundup 1.0

The thought of pairing Garzon with Citron should excite the Mystics. Garzon is a career 40% shooter from deep and would pair beautifully with the All-Star guard who shot 44% during her first year. However, Garzon isn't all perimeter shooting. She has no problem getting into the paint to score or dishing it out in the pick-and-roll game to a waiting big.

New Dream coach Karl Smesko wants to shoot a lot of 3s, but he didn't have the personnel to properly implement that approach in his first season, and their poor shooting is one of the main reasons they were stunned in the first round of the playoffs. While Garzon has really struggled to find her footing at Maryland after transferring from Indiana, she shot over 40% from 3-point range in each of her first three collegiate seasons.

Garzon was one of the best shooters in college basketball at Indiana, a 42.6 percent markswoman from 3-point range while taking nearly half of her shot attempts from long range. She was ludicrously efficient off spot-ups and handoffs with the Hoosiers, routinely exceeding 1.2 points per possession on those play types. She moves well off the ball, is a dead-eye catch-and-shoot threat and has good positional size as a combo forward. Indiana had a positive on-off differential when Garzon played in each of her three seasons, a testament to the value of her spacing and wing defense.

The shooting hasn't traveled with Garzon to Maryland, but a handful of games isn't enough to devalue the scoring and playmaking threat she has been throughout her NCAA career. Portland can use a multipositional shooter and defender on its expansion roster.