Is there any question in your mind who the number one overall pick is going to be? I separate it between who I think is going to go number one and who I would take number one. When you're talking about all these guys at the top, you're nitpicking each other because most of these guys would go number one in any other year. I think it's still a little bit of a hot take. This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Good Ranchers. Head over to Good Ranchers.com. Use promo code booster. Say $40 off your first order or $100 when you subscribe to a box and get a free protein for a year. Good Ranchers.com, American Meat, delivered. You guys know we love college basketball here at Crane and Cone. We follow it, we cover it, we embrace it, we love March.

Well, we're doing something new today. We're going to talk about the NBA draft with one of the

best guys out there to do a mock draft with. We had him on for the NCAA tournament. He's over at

Six Rings of Steel. Our buddy, Matt. Matt, how's going to be Matt? Hey, what's up. Guys. I'm looking forward to this, too, because when we talked about just college basketball stuff going throughout March Madness, it feels like a lifetime ago. So I'm glad to just be able to talk hoops again, because we're going to get in the offseason real soon, which I know you guys are kind of in with college football right now. For sure. Well, David Cohn, former Michigan quarterback, he's the average size of, I think, a small board in the NBA.

Blaine Crane, former Western State Colorado wide receiver,

definitely the size of a shooting guard in the NBA. And, you know, me, I'm about the size of a point. Maybe a slasher a little bit. But, Matt, the first thing I want to do for our audience is this is going to be a mock draft.

All right.

And I want to go through, we're going to do the top 10.

Okay?

I want to go through the order, going to do the top 10. Okay?

I want to go through the order, but first, just kicking this thing off. Is there any question in your mind who the number one overall pick is going to be? So I think for me, I separate it between who I think is going to go number one and who I would take number one. I think it's still a little bit of a hot take,

but I would take Darren Peterson number one if I were the Washington Wizards,

but I do think it's going to be Agent Abanza because I think when you look at what you want in the modern day NBA, when you want somebody that's as fluid, that has the bench for somebody that's basically six foot nine with a crazy wing span that could score at maybe all three levels. Like it's right there in AJ. there's definitely some question marks, but when you're talking about all these guys at the top,

you're nitpicking each other because most of these guys would go number one in any other year. But I will say that I think if it's Washington, if it's a different team, I think it's going to be AJ Devonson number one regardless. Well, Cohn, I know, you know, a lot of people are obviously high on Peterson from Kansas

this year, but you had the stuff, you know, kind of the off-the-court stuff where it seemed like there were some times that, you know, he took himself out of games and you had the injury situation and you wonder, like, mentally kind of where he was at. I mean, again, you watch both of and play. I just don't know how you don't pick AJ DeBonsa from BYU when you see the things that

guy. To Washington? Yeah, to Washington one there. I mean, I don't see how that doesn't happen. Well, the Utah Jazz have the second pick. So who do you have going to the Jazz right now? So that for me would be Darren Peter. I do think actually Peterson could make a little bit more sense with how the Jazz are constructed right now because they're a a team that's going to be very big next year regardless of who they take, because they acquire Jarron Jackson Jr. at the deadline. They're going to bring back Walker Kessler and restricted for agency. And you have Lauer Marketing and playing basically the small forward position at seven feet tall. So I actually think they could use somebody that's a little bit better of a point of attack defender on the perimeter like Darren Peterson. I liked his defense a little bit more last year compared to AJ. And I think stylistically, he makes more sense than AJ. Now, long term, that could be a different question. But I think they would end up going Peterson here at number two and not really think too hard about it. Although, I wonder what you guys would think too, because Cam's dad, Carloser, works for the jazz. So I wonder if there's going to be a little bit of like, do we take the son there? Who knows? See, I think that kind of rears its head more later in drafts. Like, you know, we saw like the Cowboys take, oh boy's son late from Kansas State, talking about Deuce that one year. I just, I don't think you let that get in the way of whatever the best player you think for your organization. And look, if they think that's Cam, then Blaine, they think that's Cam. But it does seem like it's an AJ and then Darren Peterson won two. And then you got Memphis sitting there. Them Grizzlies, baby. John Morant, he's sick of jumping around, you know, 50 feet in the air. I mean, Matt, who do you think the Grizzlies should go after? I mean, is this a Caleb Wilson situation? I think for the way that the Grizzlies are ran right now, I think it would end up being still Cameron Boozer. I do believe that they're just going to love every analytical number that comes out of Cameron Boozer's profile. I think he's got the extreme high floor that they would want, that they don't want to take like the extreme risk of somebody like Caleb Wilson, at least on the offensive end of the floor. And I think I think Boozer is just the perfect guy to replace. Jaron Jackson Jr. won. And then maybe John Moran as like the number one piece here in Memphis. I think him and Zach E.D. could be such a formidable front court, excuse me, going forward for the next five plus years, as long as Zach E.D. could stay healthy. I would be very shocked if Cameron Boozer felt a number four to the Bulls. Like, you never say never, but I do think this is the floor of where Boozer ends up going. It could be the best player from that. I mean, Matt, how do we feel Cameron Boozer's games going to translate to the NBA? He's kind of an old school player, in my opinion. Are you worried at all about the way his game's going to translate? Not too much, I would say, because I remember just watching a ton of Camer boozer before this season in high school. if you watch any bit of like what he did in high school, he kind of looked like Agent Ivansa a little bit in terms of his movement, his fluidity out there. He wasn't like, I would say, as stocky and maybe I think he put on a decent amount of weight going to Duke. So he became more of a back to the basket guy. I think maybe when you're talking about becoming like an alpha in a playoff series, this is maybe where we stay away from a player like this, where it's maybe like a de Montesabonis, a offensive style. But I think in the regular season and still like a player, you're taking at number three, you take that long term. So that's what I kind of mentioned when like you're nitpicking these guys against each other. It's like what would they be as like the alpha number one in a playoff series? How would they look? And then you can kind of even look at just like, I don't know, like it's not the, it's not apples to apples. But it's like Jalen Brunson is not a prototypical guy to lead a team to the NBA finals. He's not the quickest guy. He's not the strongest guy out there. But I do believe Cameron Boozer, it's not like he's like Jalen Brunson

because it's a completely, to the NBA finals. He's not the quickest guy. He's not the strongest guy out there. But I do believe

Cameron Boozer, it's not like he's like Jalen Brunson because it's a completely different realm.

I give what you're saying, though. Yeah. So it's just like more methodical. I think best YQ is

where the NBA's headed where it used to be like raw tools and potential and upside, which it's

still going to be there. But I think these front offices are going to value what he could do as a passer, as a help defender, and somebody that's not going to make a ton of mistakes. Well, and I would rather have a guy that I know is going to make the right play and can be a successful player, not just a guy who's so athletic, you just take him on a flyer that if he puts this thing together, you know, he can be a superstar, this, that, or the other. Then we have the Bulls at four. Matt, you got the Bulls at four. So let's say we go A.J., we go Darren Peterson, we go Camboozer at three, because that's what we said. Who would four be? For me, right now it's still Caleb Wilson. I think you're just looking at what the defensive tape was this past year at U&C. And he can end up being one of the best athletes in this class. He's going to be a tremendous help defender, something Chicago just needs on the perimeter as a rim protector. They need every type of defense right now for how poor their defense was before the deadline and after the deadline. They're going to have a new coach.

They have a new general manager and Bryson Graham. And I do think they're going to go and look at Kyle Wilson. They're a team that got lucky to go into the top four. And you're going to look at what he could do with his spin move, with his athleticism around the rim. This guy's going to try to dunk it on you every single night. And I think he's going to be one of those high ceiling, maybe lower four guys compared to the rest of the top four. But I think you have to take a chance on his tools here in this range. Maybe if they didn't have Josh Giddy or maybe if there was a little bit more of a safer guard prospect, I could talk myself into it. And there is one that I really like compared. Maybe to the consensus, I don't know, but I would still go Caleb Wilson here at number four.

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