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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This article originally appeared in the the Nov. 9, 2015, issue of&lt;/em&gt; Sports Illustrated. &lt;em&gt;Subscribe to the magazine here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Team USA took a mix of pros and collegians to last summer\u2019s Pan-Am Games in Toronto, the top-performing amateur\u2014and one of its best players, period\u2014was Shockers senior guard Ron Baker. While potential player-of-the-year candidates such as Maryland\u2019s Melo Trimble, Virginia\u2019s Malcolm Brogdon and Michigan State\u2019s Denzel Valentine were relegated to lesser backcourt roles, Baker earned the most minutes of any collegian (24.2 per game) with his efficient offense (50.0% shooting and just one turnover in five games) and aggressive defense (a team-high seven&amp;nbsp;steals).\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 6'4\", 210-pound Baker is a guard for all situations. At Wichita State, \u201CRon is the starting two, backup one and he can also play some three,\u201D says coach Gregg Marshall, \u201Cand he knows our system from all those positions like the back of his hand.\u201D Plus, when the Shockers\u2019 offense goes into ball-screen mode late in the shot clock\u2014a scenario that should arise even more frequently this season with the clock shrinking to 30 seconds\u2014Baker is a formidable weapon. As a junior he ranked second nationally in jump-shot efficiency off of ball screens, averaging 1.48 points over 48 possessions. And point guard Fred VanVleet is pushing Baker to get more touches in the mid-post, where he can isolate against less complete guards\u2014which, at this point of Baker\u2019s career, describes nearly all of his opponents.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X-Factor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom (Bush) Wamukota, 6'11\" senior center&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Wamukota can play extended minutes at center, the Shockers can go bigger, with 6'8\" transfer Anton Grady at power forward. If not, look for 6'4\" Evan Wessel to start at the four and Grady at the five.\r\n\r\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coach\u2019s Take&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CWe have a lot of lineup options. I could play Fred VanVleet, [Kansas transfer] Connor Frankamp, Ron Baker and Evan Wessel as the 1-2-3-4, and we\u2019d be really small, but boy, could we shoot it. ...&amp;nbsp;Wessel is the toughest dude in college basketball. If a loose ball gets to head level or below, his odds of getting it aren\u2019't 50-50, they\u2019re 90-10. ... When Grady was choosing to come here [from Cleveland State], he told me, 'I want to go somewhere where they don\u2019t just talk about going to the NCAA tournament, they talk about &lt;i&gt;winning&lt;/i&gt; the NCAA tournament.\u2019 That's what he liked about us.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Projected depth chart&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\nSI/Hanner Projected 2015-16 stats\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tName\r\n\t\t\tPos.\r\n\t\t\tPPG\r\n\t\t\tRPG\r\n\t\t\tAPG\r\n\t\t\tORtg\r\n\t\t\tPOSS\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tRon Baker\r\n\t\t\tSG\r\n\t\t\t14.8\r\n\t\t\t4.4\r\n\t\t\t2.8\r\n\t\t\t120.1\r\n\t\t\t22.3%\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tFred VanVleet\r\n\t\t\tPG\r\n\t\t\t14.0\r\n\t\t\t3.9\r\n\t\t\t5.4\r\n\t\t\t121.1\r\n\t\t\t24.9%\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tAnton Grady\r\n\t\t\tPF\r\n\t\t\t9.6\r\n\t\t\t6.6\r\n\t\t\t1.7\r\n\t\t\t103.5\r\n\t\t\t23.0%\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tConner Frankamp\r\n\t\t\tPG\r\n\t\t\t9.6\r\n\t\t\t2.6\r\n\t\t\t2.4\r\n\t\t\t107.4\r\n\t\t\t19.8%\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tZach Brown\r\n\t\t\tSF\r\n\t\t\t7.3\r\n\t\t\t3.6\r\n\t\t\t0.8\r\n\t\t\t109.8\r\n\t\t\t18.0%\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\tEvan Wessel\r\n\t\t\tSF\r\n\t\t\t5.5\r\n\t\t\t4.2\r\n\t\t\t0.8\r\n\t\t\t116.2\r\n\t\t\t13.0%\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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