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Who will be the Weaver type player on this team?

The injury part is interesting. I've said a couple of times ... he had a non-contact knee injury scare around practice two or three this year. The initial reaction coming out of the building was they feared he could have season ending. It obviously wasn't, and was more of a scare. He has one more year of college hoops, so around 3 mill left while also taking into account what injury could do to draft stock. If you go in first round, 6-7 mill guaranteed and likely 13-15 on first contract.

The personal finance decisions for a 21 YO star athlete are not simple. First, it would be smart to delete his "wants" from the decision tree and concentrate on his "needs." ---------- Second, there is the valuation issue, which turns on net rather than gross numbers. For example, income in Texas is worth much more than in states with significant income taxation. Cost of living in metro NYC or LA or SF or DC is a six figure differential over having room and board provided in Austin. Offsetting endorsement deals in LA or NYC might be unlikely for most. --------- Third, there are longer term considerations. Residual benefits of a degree now vs. a degree later, or no degree at all, are measurable to an analyst and of greater or lesser meaning to a future pro depending on his long term name value; e.g., KD and VY have extraordinary long term name value that makes a degree have virtually no long term income value in comparison. Weigh the depth of the current draft and one a year later against the likelihood of reaching a lucrative second contract a year earlier. I think the chance of a career ending injury would not be weighed because it may have the same long term effect whether sustained under a lucrative NIL deal or under a first year professional contract - but insurance issues and CBA health care provisions may make weighing injury potential another variable. ---------- Two and three are tricky issues for most, but standard fare for a financial advisor. The first issue is the most pressing: does the player NEED the most dollars today? Is his family comfortable or living paycheck to paycheck? If the current need is there the third issue, long term consequences, falls out of the matrix. Only net current value need be considered.

Maybe … but what if Rory had driven it well too? Rory was -12 after two rounds and 90th in driving accuracy

Say he goes between picks 20-30, that’s somewhere between 2.5-3.2 million first year salary in NBA. I don’t know what he’d be making at Texas but I’m guessing somewhere in that range for NIL. So then how much can his draft stock actually improve if he came back? I don’t think that much. Max out in the mid-teens probably. I am skeptical of when teams “guarantee” players they will pick them, but for Swain if thinks he’s locked in to the late first, it probably doesn’t make sense to come back.

Swain: 15% chance to return. Drafted at any spot = gone.

I hope so. Bro would end up spending his 1st 2 years in the NBA being shipped back and forth from the end of somebody's bench to the D league and the whole time... he will be kicking himself in the ass because he could've been getting top notch NIL and chilling in Austin with an absolute SQUAD!

Maybe be a combo forward type over small forward Looking at different options for best fit and need

Haven't heard a lot since it was announced he would be joining the staff. Any word on that @Bobby Burtonor any of the staff?

For the small forward position are we going after a big name or someone that can just play there role because of where we are from a NIL standpoint.

I feel like if he came back for another year, he would be an automatic top 20 pick. Just cause this draft is so deep compared to next year.

@Gerry Hamilton maybe Bryce Lindsay comes over finally he can be that guard off the bench with experience that can shoot

Both of the new additions have great free throw rates as well, which will be huge with Matas already on the team.

No way to know that right now He’s slightly ascending in mocks ahead of combine The NBA is the dream, and he’s got legit shot to stay in Talked to NBA scout of a team that won’t draft him (not position of need) over the weekend … that franchise has him as late first rounder right now. We shall see

I assume we need a back up point guard.

call your shot, Swain back? I think so.

We likely won't see any of the transfers during the regular season. I still can't figure out why Jordan Lee left. She was always in the post game pressers, seemed to like Coach, was a fan fave too. We may never know. Unless it was money. Good luck to her.

Scottie did all this driving the ball horribly too up until the final 7 holes. If he even would have driven the ball average, he would be wearing the green jacket right now.

Find a 3 and D wing and you’re one of early top 5 teams.

Yep. That's it

For anyone wondering if Punch will have a transition or if the SEC will provide something tougher for Punch next year ... I'm not one of those. Big 12 is very high level at the top, and with bigs and skilled 4's. Some of his games... 24 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 blocks, 1 steal vs. Kansas 19 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 blocks, 2 steals vs. Florida 17 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals vs. Wisconsin 20 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assists, 5 blocks, 1 steal at Kansas 10 points, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks, 2 steals vs Arizona 16 points, 5 assists, 1 block vs. Houston 16 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 blocks in NCAA Tournament vs Ohio State Had some tougher games too, but overall vs. NCAA Tournament teams he averaged: 12.8 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.9 blocks, 1.0 steals in 13 games

All about finding solid role players that fit what Texas needs at this point. Similar to Sark in football with his offense this upcoming season, Miller will have a lot of weapons, but there’s only so many minutes and one basketball to go around. It’s a good problem to have.

@Gerry Hamilton so last week I asked if you would take Swain and Matas returning whike adding Johnson and Punch. 75% in one weeked is pretty outstanding for Miller and company.

Posted this morning ... NBADraft.net 2027 mock draft Matas 29th in first round David Punch 36th in second round https://www.nbadraft.net/nba-mock-drafts/?year-mock=2027 Those two guys will appear on a number of mock's for 2027