On today's show, the best fit in the draft with Cooper Flag is AJ DeBanza.

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Head to fandal.com to get started. That's bandwool.com. Fandu will play your game. Joining me, as always, my co-host, the draft duchess, the one more thinking. What's you got for me, Isaac Harris? March Madness is coming up. I'm so excited. I've just, I've spent so much time, too much time on some of these, you know, quad one wins

for, you know, UCF and all these. But it's exciting. And it's exciting from a draft standpoint.

It's like, even if you don't like college basketball, almost all of these guys like lottery picks should be in, you know, Caleb Wilson's out for the year, but most of these guys should be in the first weekend of this tournament. So it's a lot of fun. We're going to talk about the best fits between all these guys with Cooper Flagg. And we'll pick our best fit. We'll talk about Darius Aikoff. I've got some thoughts about Darius Auff now after doing some deep dynob nobody else does nobody else has thoughts on dari's acuff you're getting them exclusively here and i've got thoughts on all the other guards too that the mavs could potentially pick in that range so let's start here the best fit to me out of the top three going through all of them looking at all their different like the potential of all of them

looking at what they could be looking at what their strengths and weaknesses are it's a j de bansa to me

in today's NBA in the way that you have to play in what a j de bansa could bring i brought myself to

be like what's the downside to a j de bansa there's a clear downside to, I think, potentially Boozer, potentially Darren Peterson, but AJ DeBonse can get his own shot, is a big wing, has the tools to defend, but Cooper Flag can defend. So it's not like you gotta have both those guys be a lead, but even if AJ DeBanza is just an okay defender, you can make that work and it can be awesome.

And that wing defender doesn't have to be your best, like doesn't have to be an awesome defender every single time, it's not like center, where you're stuck if your center isn't a great defender, and you gotta make up for that somewhere else. AJ DeBonza can get his own shot. He's starting to show some of the playmaking, like the reads and different things like that.

And I just think that having show some of the playmaking, like the reeds and different

things like that. I just think they're having the size of those two guys, the shotmaking ability of those two guys. I just think you would just be the Celtics all over again. It'd be Tatum and Brown all over again. And I feel like those two guys could make it work. And I think, I think that's the best fit out of these three guys. If we're just looking at the top three first, Boozer, Peterson, DeBonsa, it's DeBanza for me.

Over Bennett starts. I would take him over that. I would take him over A-Cuff. Even though that's the direction of some math for that for for content. I feel like I got to disagree, but now I'll double that. I know you don't. No, I mean, it's been AJ DeBonds's number one pick for me for a while. It hasn't changed. I don't see any problem with a fit with Cooper. When it comes to, there's certain type of positions that you can double up on. And when, you know, I've seen some, you know, some people try to do that well cooper six nine two and he

likes the score it's like well you can have two of those guys believe it or not and i just think he

has the full full package i mean even the shot i mean you could talk about some of the percentages

from the outside but the shot looks good um pull-ups too he's so so fluid some of his drives

he's so nimble and agile for like his size

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