Welcome on to a long awaited podcast. We actually have a real draft expert instead of me and Danny who just play

At it one month per year Mike Schmitz that now of ESPN

Kind enough to give us his time despite his increased

Responsibilities I do man. I'm great man. Thanks for having me. So what's your role gonna be during the ESPN draft coverage this year?

Yeah, so I'm gonna be on set not on the main set but kind of off to the side

Talk about some international guys, you know Luca Donchitch some college guys

Yeah, so I'll be involved with the with the main show in some capacity and then

We have a couple shows coming up here tomorrow. I think we're gonna do a preview show as well

Closer to the draft. So yeah, it'll be really good. All right

Well, it's been awesome to watch your meteoric rise that you were you're a natural on that going back to those Yahoo ones

He was like is the first time. It's you do anything live on camera and you were like awesome on those Yahoo live shows

So looking forward to to seeing you on the draft coverage

So I let's just start really easily here in your opinion who should be the number one pick in this draft

I think Deandre Aiton, but it's something I've gone back and forth with with him and Donchitch

Really all year long, but to me it's Aiton

I just feel like he has the fewest question marks to me

Obviously watching the playoffs and watching the way the game the best teams are playing the game now

That's that's probably my biggest question is like okay, how many?

260 pound guys, you know are even playing in the four right now

But I do think you know he played out of position at Arizona playing mostly the four

I do think he can improve as a rim protector. I think he has the agility to switch

Maybe he's not gonna be elite at it, but I don't think like you have to drop him every time and I mean

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