2026 NBA Draft Thread.....

[SUPERBALLMAN]

I see Boozer did another good job statpadding against a cupcake. Gotta take advantage of these opportunities while he can.

Maybe. I think the smarts translates. Bigs with high assist ratios tend to translate to good defenders at the next level. Better than the bouncy types that jump to block every shot. Defensive rebounding also translates, even when offensive boards don’t. The fact that he’s added an outside shot opens up his game and fixes some concerns I had about if he was just an early growth standout.

That said I have Caleb above him due to a combo of outlier athleticism, length, suction cups for hands and a baseline of high intelligence. His per 36 numbers pop off the page.

I am wondering if Caleb Wilson will be better at a thing or two than Cooper Flagg?

How were their head-to-head matchups in ACC play last season?

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[BobbyD78]

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Holy crap! He showed the entire package in the second half. The Michael Jordan-esque mid-post game. The driving game. And the pull-up 3's off the bounce. All against an elite defensive team.

The part that impressed me most was at the :45 second mark. He got in an isolation at the post, recognized that no double team was coming so he stayed calm. He got to his spot. He knew he was going to take a turnaround jumper over his left shoulder. His defender knew he was going to take a turnaround jumper over his left shoulder. But AJ knew that there was honestly nothing the defender could do to stop it. He was just a better athlete and would get to a higher release point than the defender could contest. And the guy guarding him, Jaylin Stewart, is a big athletic dude (6'-7" 225 Jr.) and a 4-star recruit out of high school. You gotta love a player with an unstoppable go-to move.

AJ scored just 4 points in the first half and went 1/6 from the floor and 2/4 from the line with 2 turnovers while trying to figure out the defense. In the second half, he scored 21 points, going 7/8 from the floor and 5/6 from the line with only 1 turnover.

https://www.deseret.com/sports/2025/11/15/byu-basketball-aj-dybansta-uconn-huskies-college-basketball/

Analysis: AJ Dybantsa made the game with UConn possible, then he nearly atoned for BYU’s early sins

BOSTON — Win or lose, Saturday night’s wild game between No. 3 UConn and No. 7 BYU at TD Garden in Boston was always going to be the AJ Dybantsa Game.

Without him, the game wouldn’t have been scheduled. The teams wouldn’t have met unless it was in the NCAA Tournament next spring. And the Cougars never would have run the parquet floor beneath the Boston Celtics’ 17 NBA championship banners 40 minutes from his home in Brockton, Massachusetts.

And win or lose, the game Dybantsa made possible was going to help BYU’s seeding in the NCAA Tournament next spring by boosting its strength of schedule.

It is, after all, the first time a top-10 BYU team played another top-10 opponent since the height of Jimmermania in 2011.

TD Garden had one open date for a college game, an organizer said. BYU and UConn eagerly agreed. So did Fox Sports, which cleared out a college football night for a matchup this juicy, with each team fielding three players listed on ESPN’s Top 100.

The rest confirms what nate already surmised, but it goes into great detail with quotes from Dan Hurley and AJD. He discusses his mindset. Very cerebral. Uber athletic. Both parents were in the front row. High character kid.

Draft this kid above Peterson. He is a Len Bias before the bad choice.

The first player that came to mind when I saw Dybantsa was Len Bias.