2026 NBA draft thread

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Should it be?  I mean for every Siakam there have been hundreds of guys drafted with a similar profile to the quote you posted who didn't develop into nearly the offensive player Siakam is.  Can Morez develop into an elite offensive player like Siakam?  Yes.  Is it likely based on his 2 years of college data?  No.  I'm not sure we should be using an extreme development outlier as a blueprint for what we would expect another player to do.

You make my point. Siakam and Johnson were seemingly just about the same guy (however Johnson was a bit younger) when they were drafted, with similar profiles. The same guy - who seems to have a type - picked both players. My point is that it's premature to declare what Johnson CAN'T do, or CAN'T become, or that he can't become THIS (!) - because a "can't become Siakam" ceiling on that type of player does not exist. Siakam himself took that exact path, it seems.