The Hardline - Who the Mavericks should be watching in the Sweet 16

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All right, so yeah, Texas Place tonight against Purdue.

That's the opening game.

But the one that we're interested in, okay, yeah, I'll give you two.

I'll definitely give you two.

Illinois and Houston with their point guards and then Arkansas and Arizona with the

same.

And so the Mavericks right now are the five or six, they're six in the lottery order.

Now we do know you're still allowed to win the lottery again.

So we don't want to rule that out.

But if you look at most big boards for the college basketball crop, if you will, you will

find that tier one is pretty solid with Cam Booser, Darren Peterson, and A.J.

DeBanza.

DeBanza.

DeBanza.

DeBanza.

DeBanza.

DeBanza.

I feel like I feel like Ruby will enjoy him.

Yeah.

And then right behind.

So that's the BYU guy who's unbelievable.

And then Caleb Wilson from North Carolina is not necessarily thought of as right on

that tier, but it does feel like he's kind of consensus for he is.

So these are all which you might say men of great size from six nine Peterson's kind

of a six six swing.

But the BYU kid is six nine Caleb Wilson six 10.

So these are men of a great size.

But then the board from say five to five to 12 maybe is made up of some who are bigs.

But many who are all of the point guard or shooting guard variety.

And this does seem to be a match with the Mavericks hopes and dreams.

Now if they get their chance at Caleb Wilson, they should probably go that direction.

There are probably other things to consider altogether.

But in talking with, you know, some in the know about where the Mavericks are and where

they're thinking, it does feel like there's a match this year to really go get a potential

all star guard to help this thing grow around Cooper flag in the years to follow, especially

with Kyrie now being his age of 34.

So that leads us to who are the guys on that list.

Well, they're the guys who are kind of playing tonight.

So when you look at your March madness selections, I probably will watch the stars, but the

stars will probably be done by eight forty five or nine o'clock while at eight forty five

Arkansas plays Arizona.

So now if we go back to that big board, you see the Arizona kid, Braden Berries, the

shooting guard who is all the rage and 10th on the big board is going up against a derrius

Akuf, who is the sixth man on the big board, which matches up perfectly with the Mavericks

now and the player of the tournament so far.

Yeah, and honestly, all of his numbers on the offensive side are pretty sick.

I certainly don't want to curse the young man with saying he's Dame Lillard, but his

catching shoot numbers, his off the dribble numbers, his finish at the rim going left,

finishing at the rim going right.

I mean, every way you look at his offensive game, it looks like he is a dude who gets buckets

and that is a very helpful thing.

So Arkansas, Arizona will be on, I believe the eight forty five CBS game and Arizona is

so loaded.

They're the best team in the tournament right now left in the tournament and that they're

going to figure out a way to stop Akuf.

They're not going to let that guy beat him.

They're so deep.

So I don't know if you're going to get a good look at Akuf tonight, but we already have

well, I mean, if you're a Lillard guy, you'll get yours true.

So they can throw whatever they want at you, but he a little easier in college to shut

a guy down, though, as we've seen it is, but go down that SEC schedule and he's still

35, 37, 28, you know, so anyway, that's that game at eight forty five.

Then the game that starts right after it at nine oh five on TBS or at the same time

is Illinois Houston.

And again, if you go back to the big board, I we mentioned, uh, Akuf and berries are six

and 10.

Well Houston and Illinois offer you five and seven.

So Kingston Fleming is the fifth highest player on the board and the first guy on the board

after those big four, Kingston Fleming smooth, yes, very, very impressive and every, you

know, he is a fantastic player and then the seventh rated player is Keaton Wagler of

Illinois and another guy who is a fantastic player, a little bit of a more, uh, big and

lanky six six one eighty five, which as somebody who's six four to twenty five, I cannot imagine

being six six one eighty five, but whatever, uh, most basketball players or would all your

organs be?

I don't know.

I don't know how these guys do it, but good for them, I'm going to say they're all nineteen

and that's their big advantage in life, but there's probably more to it than that.

But honestly, there are a few others.

There's the kid from Alabama.

There's the kid from Louisville who I think is banged up right now, but for the most part,

these are the four guys that we understand would probably be high on the board of guys

the Mavericks would be choosing from.

So you don't get to make the pick, but you can figure out who these four guys are from

these two games going tonight.

The little last channel scouting.

Yes.

So Kingston Flemmins and Keaton Wagler are in the Houston, Illinois game on TBS at nine,

A cup and berries are Arkansas and Arizona and they are on CBS at eight forty five.

So it's actually a really fun little basketball night to kind of get a feel for these four

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