2026 NBA draft thread

[Winter]

Well, that's what I'm saying though. There's a growing suggestion out there that Burries is REALLY a lead guard who chose to play for a school that already had an established player in that role in order to play for a better team last year. If that's actually the case, I'd say his "ceiling" is much higher than we're assuming. It would mean his offensive potential is much greater and that his adequate positional size and physical tools become actual plusses.

That's a little tricky, I think, to presume a player has lead guard skills when that's not usually the position he's played. I mean that's just something no one really knows at present. Guys are usually groomed as PGs much earlier. In his McDonald's All America appearance after high school, Darius Acuff was the eastern PG with Mikel Brown on the western side. Burries would play SG I assume. There's just not much history there that I can see.

You're right though. If you could play him as lead guard next to another SG that seems like a better outcome. Wagler did it when his Illinois PG went down with injury, so it can happen.