02-19-2026, 12:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-19-2026, 12:59 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(02-19-2026, 11:12 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: Everybody has their own opinion, but when Tatum is right, he's up there with the rest. Maybe it's because Jalen Brown is just as good, and he gets overlooked.
Nah. Tatum is a fantastic player, but there's no denying he doesn't have the pop of the top tier.
If Boozer was far better defensively, I'd say his ceiling was Tatum. In his draft, Tatum was seen as a question mark, which is why he fell to the third pick. He far exceeded what most pundits expected of him. That steady productivity and discipline which both have might make Boozer a great NBA player (although his questionability on D negates all of the talk of this being a "three franchise player draft." Lol - NO WAY. Peterson might be an unreliable franchise player (cf. Zion, but far more reliable than that), and Dybantsa looks most likely to enter to the superstar tier, but Boozer? Nope. Bet he makes a few All-Star games, but I severely doubt he'll be seen as having been a franchise guy by the time he retires).