2026 NBA DRAFT CLASS

Chokic · Post #241 » by **Chokic** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:35 pm

Chi town wrote:Yikes. Cam Carr. Crazy bounce and wingspan.

https://youtu.be/l3FunijhfKI?si=eiEw7B8cFxL-C8HB

How carr got hardly any playing time at tennesse was crazy. Very underrated nba prospect for sure.

peZt · Post #242 » by **peZt** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:41 pm

Chokic wrote:
Chi town wrote:Yikes. Cam Carr. Crazy bounce and wingspan.

https://youtu.be/l3FunijhfKI?si=eiEw7B8cFxL-C8HB

How carr got hardly any playing time at tennesse was crazy. Very underrated nba prospect for sure.

What I realized during my time watching College Basketball is that no other sports that I can think of and that I ever followed has this much terrible coaching and this many egotiscic coaches as College Basketball

Chuck Everett · Post #243 » by **Chuck Everett** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 2:19 pm

peZt wrote:
Chokic wrote:
Chi town wrote:Yikes. Cam Carr. Crazy bounce and wingspan.

https://youtu.be/l3FunijhfKI?si=eiEw7B8cFxL-C8HB

How carr got hardly any playing time at tennesse was crazy. Very underrated nba prospect for sure.

What I realized during my time watching College Basketball is that no other sports that I can think of and that I ever followed has this much terrible coaching and this many egotiscic coaches as College Basketball

Does seem kind of crazy that Barnes couldn't find any minutes for this level of athlete. It showed he only played 4 games last year. Did he suffer an injury?

Chokic · Post #244 » by **Chokic** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 4:30 pm

Come to find out cameron carr is the son of former nba veteran chris carr who competed in the 1997 dunk contest with kobe bryant.

tontoz · Post #245 » by **tontoz** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 4:48 pm

Chokic wrote:Come to find out cameron carr is the son of former nba veteran chris carr who competed in the 1997 dunk contest with kobe bryant.

Dude is listed at 6'5" 175. He looks way bigger than that.

Chokic · Post #246 » by **Chokic** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 4:58 pm

tontoz wrote:
Chokic wrote:Come to find out cameron carr is the son of former nba veteran chris carr who competed in the 1997 dunk contest with kobe bryant.

Dude is listed at 6'5" 175. He looks way bigger than that.

Apparently he has a 7'2 wingspan which is insane along with his leaping ability. His measurables are akin to cedric coward and okc jalen williams.

Chi town · Post #247 » by **Chi town** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 12:36 am

peZt wrote:
Chokic wrote:
Chi town wrote:Yikes. Cam Carr. Crazy bounce and wingspan.

https://youtu.be/l3FunijhfKI?si=eiEw7B8cFxL-C8HB

How carr got hardly any playing time at tennesse was crazy. Very underrated nba prospect for sure.

What I realized during my time watching College Basketball is that no other sports that I can think of and that I ever followed has this much terrible coaching and this many egotiscic coaches as College Basketball

Modern hoops requires so much skill development too. These guys are so young and so many grow into their bodies later and then the skills take time too.

Carr looks like an NBA wing and those hops and length will play day one. His floor seems like a Derrick Jones Jr.

babyjax13 · Post #248 » by **babyjax13** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 5:57 pm

Chi town wrote:
peZt wrote:
Chokic wrote:

How carr got hardly any playing time at tennesse was crazy. Very underrated nba prospect for sure.

What I realized during my time watching College Basketball is that no other sports that I can think of and that I ever followed has this much terrible coaching and this many egotiscic coaches as College Basketball

Modern hoops requires so much skill development too. These guys are so young and so many grow into their bodies later and then the skills take time too.

Carr looks like an NBA wing and those hops and length will play day one. His floor seems like a Derrick Jones Jr.

Carr was really raw his freshman year, he looked like a short Derrick Jones Jr. Then he was injured last season. Tennessee clearly helped develop him a lot for him to be playing like this.

The-Power · Post #249 » by **The-Power** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:39 pm

Has anyone watched more tape of Mario Saint-Supery? Reminds me a bit of Reed Sheppard at first glance with the way he looks and plays (not saying he's the same level of talent, of course).

babyjax13 · Post #250 » by **babyjax13** » Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:02 am

The-Power wrote:Has anyone watched more tape of Mario Saint-Supery? Reminds me a bit of Reed Sheppard at first glance with the way he looks and plays (not saying he's the same level of talent, of course).

Three point shooting historically hasn't been amazing but I think he has the touch to be solid. I really liked watching him in national team competitions, very heady player.

BAMAFREAK · Post #251 » by **BAMAFREAK** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 5:07 am

Philon with a second half takeover tonight. He has great pace to his game.

sisibilio · Post #252 » by **sisibilio** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 1:50 pm

The-Power wrote:Has anyone watched more tape of Mario Saint-Supery? Reminds me a bit of Reed Sheppard at first glance with the way he looks and plays (not saying he's the same level of talent, of course).

He's a better playmaker and maybe a lil longer. Shooting isn't that consistent though.

Bonifan · Post #253 » by **Bonifan** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:10 pm

This draft class will be quiet something

BigGargamel · Post #254 » by **BigGargamel** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:18 pm

What do you guys think about these various big men? I have them all in the mid to late first round range, but am I overvaluing them?

Hannes Steinbach
Aday Mara
Henri Veesaar
Flory Bidunga
Patrick Ngongba

Post #255 » by **Duke4life831** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:30 pm

BigGargamel wrote:What do you guys think about these various big men? I have them all in the mid to late first round range, but am I overvaluing them?

Hannes Steinbach
Aday Mara
Henri Veesaar
Flory Bidunga
Patrick Ngongba

Honestly Im pretty meh on this group.

Ill start with Pat. I just dont think he has an NBA game. He has really slow feet and struggles to defend in space at the college level, it will be even worse in the NBA. Plus he's really not much of rim protector. Good hands and has some good moves down low, but nothing about him really screams NBA, outside of his ability to pass from the perimeter.

To me there are always a Flory' type in basically every draft and you can find them early 2nd round. 6'9-6'10 long and really athletic, with pretty much zero offensive game. I think he's just like another Adem Bona kind of big.

Mara I just havent really been all that impressed with him yet in college. Not as agile as I thought he was before coming over and always just got pushed around while he was at UCLA.

Veesaar to me is just your typical Power conference big man. Not much NBA potential though.

Havent watched any Steinbach.

I think this group looks like your typical late 1st-2nd round big man class. Not super strong but not bad either. Again pretty meh.

BigGargamel · Post #256 » by **BigGargamel** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:35 pm

Yeah, I figured most of those guys were early to mid 2nd round fodder. Not much difference between those guys and a Maxime Raynaud. Valanciunas will probably be moving on after this year so I'd like Denver to use its late first rounder on a backup, if any of those guys were worth it.

I think Steinbach goes higher, but the rest could be decent enough options. Guess it depends on how many freshman declare and take up those spots. Almost all of the top 30 ranked recruits are playing pretty well so far.

Post #257 » by **Duke4life831** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:56 pm

BigGargamel wrote::lol: Yeah, I figured most of those guys were early to mid 2nd round fodder. Not much difference between those guys and a Maxime Raynaud. Valanciunas will probably be moving on after this year so I'd like Denver to use its late first rounder on a backup, if any of those guys were worth it.

I think Steinbach goes higher, but the rest could be decent enough options. Guess it depends on how many freshman declare and take up those spots. Almost all of the top 30 ranked recruits are playing pretty well so far.

Ya Ive seen Steinbach in some recent mocks like in the late teens. Again I cant speak much on him since I havent seen him.

But ya overall late draft big man depth. Id say its kind of the definition of nothing to write home about haha. Not wow so much talent can be found, also not like there is nothing there. Just a normal draft haha. Got your smaller athletic rim runner. Got your really skinny but somewhat skilled big. And some of your solid bigs, but not really athletic enough of perimeter skilled enough to be anything more than big guys off the bench.

babyjax13 · Post #258 » by **babyjax13** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 12:19 am

I like Steinbach and Mirkovic quite a bit.

Chuck Everett · Post #259 » by **Chuck Everett** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 4:05 am

Yeah, Kingston Flemings is clearly the best player on Houston after five games. He can pretty to get anywhere he wants off the dribble. Will be interesting to see how hard it is to contain him once he plays in a ball screen system. Although part of me wonders if the NCAA ball is overinflated, because sometimes his dribble is a little high. I think it's because the ball has too much air in it.

Bonifan · Post #260 » by **Bonifan** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:05 am

Seems an amazing class to be honest