ST. FRANCIS, Wis. -- After selecting Jabari Parker with the No. 2 overall pick, the Milwaukee Bucks made three selections in the second round of Thursday's NBA Draft.
Milwaukee took Damien Inglis, a 6-foot-8 small forward from French Guiana at No. 31 overall. The Bucks then picked LSU power forward Johnny O'Bryant at No. 36 and Pittsburgh shooting guard Lamar Patterson at No. 48.
The Bucks traded the draft rights to Patterson to the Atlanta Hawks for Brooklyn's 2015 second-round pick.
Inglis, who just turned 19 years old, played parts of three seasons for INSEP in France, increasing his scoring average from 3.0 in his first season of 2010-11 to 15.6 in 2012-13. He spent the 2013-14 season with Roanne as a rookie in France's top league, averaging 4.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 15.3 minutes per game.
In 27 games with Roanne, Inglis shot 49.5 percent from the field and 38.7 percent from beyond the arc. Inglis was measured to have a 7-foot-3 wingspan and a standing reach of 8-foot-11 at the 2014 Nike Hoop Summit.
"He's a really talented young player," Bucks general manager John Hammond said. "He's another young piece. He has a very good skill set. He doesn't look as athletic as you think, but then all of a sudden you watch him in a game and he makes a big block above the rim or finishes above the rim."
Johnny O'Bryant is a player who impressed team officials in a draft workout last Friday. An All-SEC first team pick by the coaches the past two seasons, O'Bryant averaged 12.7 points and 7.7 rebounds in three seasons at LSU.
"I think I went in and had a pretty good workout," O'Bryant said in a phone interview Thursday. "They told me they were interested and that if I was there on the board they might take me.
"I just want to try and come in and give high energy. They drafted Jabari as an all-around guy that can do everything. I'm a low-post guy. I'm just going to try and be effective in the areas where I can be."
O'Bryant averaged 15.4 points and 7.7 rebounds in 2013-14 as a junior, shooting 49.6 percent from the field. A true power forward, O'Bryant is a physical inside player and is said to be a "tenacious" rebounder by a scouting report released by the NBA.
"Dave Babcock and Billy McKinney liked him a lot during the season," Hammond said. "I saw him very late in the year. I liked him. They kind of stayed after it on him and kept encouraging us to study him more. The more we watched him, the more we liked him.
"He's a real talented a kid. He's a real big body. He can play inside because he has that real wide body. He kind of reminds me a little bit of Corliss Williamson. I can remember Corliss guarding a guy like Shaq because he can do it with that low base. I think he can play a little center because he's so strong and thick."
The Bucks added three players 6-foot-8 or taller Thursday but did not add a guard with one of their second-round picks. Nevada point Deonte Burton, Iowa State guard DeAndre Kane, Arizona State point guard Jahii Carson and Rhode Island guard Billy Baron could be intriguing undrafted free-agent options for the Bucks to bring in for summer league or training camp.
"There really probably wasn't the two-guard we were looking at as much, but there were a couple of point guards we felt could help us," Hammond said. "At the end of the day, we feel we took the best player on the board that was there."
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