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Carsen Edwards and Isaac Haas at the NBA Draft combine in Chicago

Two Purdue players are participating in the NBA Draft combine in Chicago this week, those being Carsen Edwards and Isaac Haas.

Edwards is one of two Boilermaker underclassmen with their names in the draft, the other being Nojel Eastern. He'll have until later this month to decide whether he'll return to Purdue for his junior season.

Haas is an outgoing senior recovering from a broken elbow suffered in Purdue's NCAA Tournament opener. He'll only participate in measurements, medical evaluation and such in Chicago.

Both players were originally slated as alternates but wound up being late adds for the event.

A rundown of results thus far, all according to NBA.com.

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CARSEN EDWARDS MEASUREMENTS

Body fat: 6.3%

Context: This is 34th among those measured, though the delineation between frontcourt players and backcourt players is significant. This is a top-10 percentage among players designated solely as guards.

Hand length: 8.5 inches

Hand width:9.25

Height (no shoes): 5-10.75

Height (with shoes): 6-0

(Context: Basketball players typically wear shoes when playing basketball.)

Standing reach: 7-10.5

Weight: 195.6

(Context: For a player designated as a point guard who'll also show well in explosiveness and strength measures, this is a good number.)

Wingspan: 6-6.25

(Context: Ten guards came in lower than Edwards, but all players whose stock won't be determined by length, a must in the NBA on the wing and a luxury at the point. Edwards came in sixth among players categorized solely as point guards. This is a good number for a 6-foot PG prospect.)


ISAAC HAAS MEASUREMENTS

Body fat: 12.55%

Context: This is the third-highest number among those measured, but par for the course for the largest player there, perhaps especially for a player who's been rehabbing an injury since March.

Hand length: 10.0 inches

Context: This matches Michigan State's Jaren Jackson for the No. 1 measurement at the camp.

Hand width: 10.5 inches

Context: Haas came in at No. 2, a quarter inch behind Michigan's Mo Wagner.

Height (no shoes): 7-1.25

Context: No. 1

Height (with shoes): 7-2-.75

(Context: No. 1 by two-and-a-half inches over Texas' Mo Bamba. Oh, and basketball players typically wear shoes when playing basketball.)

Standing reach: 9-3.5

Context: Haas was third behind Bamba (9-7.5) and Kansas' Udoka Azubuike (9-4.5).

Weight: 303.3

Context: This is probably close to what Haas played at for much of his Purdue career and would seem like a solid number for a player who's been recovering from injury, as long as it's good weight, which is difficult to ascertain just from the body fat number.

Wingspan: 7-5

Context: Haas tied for fifth among those measured.

Bottom Line: For Edwards, these numbers matter because NBA people were going to want to verify height and length, but their importance to his big picture here goes only to a point. It's the athleticism measures and competition work that will matter far more.

For Haas, everyone already knew he was big. For him, the athleticism and agility stuff — and of course his medical file — will matter much more.

Interviews will matter as well for both. Scouts may want to gauge Edwards' personality and ask Haas some uncomfortable questions right now.

CARSEN EDWARDS ATHLETIC MEASUREMENTS

Lane agility time: 11.59 seconds

Context: Surprisingly, among guards who tested, only Penn State's Tony Carr was slower, and Carr is 6-foot-5. The lane ability drill has players move forward, laterally and in their backpedal around the lane's boundaries.

Shuttle run: 3.15 seconds

Context: This was the 19th-best time on the day among those who tested. Three players categorized solely as point guards finished below him. The shuttle highlights quickness in and out of cuts, change-of-direction etc.

Three-quarter sprint: 3.20 seconds

Context: This is just a dead sprint that covers three-quarters of the court, a little more than 70 feet. It does gauge how fast a player may be with the ball in his hands and they are two very different things.

Standing vertical: 28.5 inches

Context: Not a bad number, but Edwards is obviously a whole different level of leaper on the run, as he showed all season.

Max vertical: 34.5 inches

Context: Villanova's Dom DiVincenzo and Georgia Tech's Josh Okogie, both of them shooting guards, led the field at 42 inches.

COMPETITION

In 5-on-5, Edwards finished with five points on 2-of-5 shooting and three assists, with two turnovers and a steal in a win ,and did this ....

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