2026 NBA draft thread

[hakeemfaan]

Also, and this will be greeted with much disgust, possibly, I can’t shake the feeling that this guy will be the pick everyone’s jealous over in 3 years.

I just don't see it with him. I hope I'm wrong if the Mavs end up drafting him.

He doesn't have the skillset right now to get separation. Look at Dirk on the hard stop and pull up in his younger years.  He is not blowing by anyone athletically.   Plus his shooting percentages are very poor.  

Sure he can end up surprising a lot of people but it only means he has somehow improved a lot from what he is today. This is not Jokic or SGA  where you look at him and say even with the known negatives he was pretty solid pre draft as well but somehow we overlooked him.