2026 NBA draft thread

[KillerLeft]

I have not even looked at a single clip of Mara but...

what if Lively is cooked?  and they have a Gafford trade lined up?  would that change anyone's mind?

Not mine. 

I get that he's unusually skilled, offensively, and that's great for him. 

End of day, he's a big who can ONLY function in drop coverage on the defensive end, and I just think the NBA has figured that out. That's basically why we're seeing the midrange scoring come back into vogue. I think NBA players will be salivating at the prospect of getting him switched onto them. Licking their chops. For me, the logical progression from there to "can't help you in the playoffs" is almost a forgone conclusion, with the BEST case scenario being that he holds up juuuuust well enough to get that Jake Poetl contract before the book on him gets definitively closed. 

I'm just not interested in a ride like that.