2026 NBA draft thread

[hakeemfaan]

It does seem Schmitz values positional size and positional flexibility. All these scouts talk about Burries being a primary ball handler in HS and chose Arizona to win. Go watch his HS championship game. He’s ridiculous. Just phenomenal around the rim and in transition, floater, euro step, range, change speeds while staying in control. Burries doesn’t quite have the wingspan of Dylan Harper (and he’s actually a few months older), but that’s a good comp for height & weight (0.75 in shorter, 2 lbs heavier). Jamal Murray is a great comp. Murray was not a PG at Kentucky, but he’s a pretty dang good one now. If Burries turns into Jamal Murray with better defense….thats really tough to pass up. I do like Flemings. I just watched some more highlights, so I wouldn’t hate it, but a Flemings-Kyrie backcourt would be a serious size issue. He’s not really anything other than a point guard, and his FG% around the rim is alarming not to mention attempting 5 floaters his entire college season. So, I would draft Burries 10/10 times if given the choice between the 2.

It's not that straightforward. If all GMs were so convinced of Burries playing the point, shouldn't he go much higher? What other glaring weakness or issue does he have if he can legit be a primary ball handler? Even his size would be a huge plus if he was slotted as the lead guard.  

He would automatically move ahead of Wagler and Brown for me if I had enough of a sample size in college of him handling tough defenses as a primary guard.  Acuff is the only one who would still be ahead of him mainly because Acuff shows flashes of the potential to be a generational type scorer.

Edit: I do agree that everything you're hearing about the Mavs (and I know smokescreens are prevalent prior to the draft) seems to point to them taking someone bigger and more physical than Flemings.