How Next Star Luke Paul has impressed NBL legend

• Game 1: Aussie Crocs at snappy best to tip-off Cup campaign‍
• Game 2: Paul gives statisticians sore fingers in five-point win
• Game: 3: Antonio Browne sends Australia into Round of 16
• Game 4: Luke Paul and Antonio Browne fire Australia into the U17 World Cup quarter-finals

Australian teen prodigy Luke Paul hasn't even started his first season as an NBL Next Star and already he is exceeding the expectations of Jason Cadee.

Paul, who recently signed a multi-year deal with the Cairns Taipans, has led the Australian Crocs to an undefeated start to the FIBA Under-17 World Cup in Turkiye with a quarterfinal meeting against Canada ahead on Friday night.

The 17-year-old West Australian product is averaging 13.8 points, 7.5 assists and 6.8 rebounds per game in his first four performances at the tournament but more importantly, shot the lights our from the three-point line in Australia's Round of 16 win over Slovenia, hitting 5-from-7 from beyond the arc on his way to 20 points in the 104-75 win.

Speaking on the latest episode of Cut to the Jase with co-host Brayden Heslehurst, Cadee said Paul had impressed him even more than he thought the future Taipan would.

"His vision is beyond what people that age can comprehend," he said on the basketball.com.au podcast.

"You watch some of the passes he makes and just how he sees the floor and only people who truly understand basketball at a pretty high level would be able to see what he sees and that's what impresses me the most.

"Sometimes I'd love him to be more aggressive and I think that's why when you see someone else who can carry the ball a little bit and just they run stuff (for him), I think that's why he is more aggressive in those situations.

"But I think his ability to just play at his own pace, his ability to find people, his ability that we've seen him score at periods, I think that's why he's got such an elite level."

Cadee said the biggest test for Paul would come later in the tournament to see whether he can take over in critical parts of important games.

"I think for him at this tournament, the one thing I'd love to see him do, especially in games that gets down the wire where we get further into the tournaments, can he just have the ability to take over games offensively and that's just scoring the ball, creating and doing other things," he said.

"I think he has it in him.

"I just think he has so many tools that at that age, how do you unlock all that when you don't really know yourself?"

Australia take on Canada at 7.30pm Friday night (AEST).