2026 NBA draft thread

[Smitty]

If there is a nitpick with him, it would be his low 3 point volume.  He takes just under 3 a game.  

But the biggest reason you probably don't hear much about him is that he has been project to go 5 for a long time and Mavs have no chance to pick there.  It may be that Acuff goes ahead of him, but there is little chance the Mavs pick at 6 either.  Honestly Those are probably the two least likely guys for Mavs to pick simply given where they are likely to go.

Spot on. I think there's a case that if the Mavs land at 4, they could talk themselves into Acuff or Flemings though. When I did my "feelings" about each potential prospect, I wasn't talking about where they were drafted, just that they were Mavericks. AJ-Boozer-Wilson-Acuff were my top 4, so who knows... Not that I see Peterson dropping to 5, just how I feel about it all as it stands today. It's much more likely it'd come down to Wilson or one of those two PG's at 4 for the Mavs.