OTF Premium Breaking: Texas lands hoops transfer David Punch

[Nathan B]

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

[TheContractor12]

2 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Texas will be a top 10 ranked team preseason ... mark this one. 

They are far from done

call your shot, Swain back? I think so. 

[Dday]

I assume we need a back up point guard.

[Gerry Hamilton]

3 minutes ago, TheContractor12 said:

call your shot, Swain back? I think so. 

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 

[Nathan B]

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

[ryanN]

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

[Caden Kuykendall]

58 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

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 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.

[Longhorn nation]

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.

[Gerry Hamilton]

3 hours ago, Longhorn nation said:

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.

Maybe be a combo forward type over small forward 

Looking at different options for best fit and need 

[817 Boxing B]

6 hours ago, TheContractor12 said:

call your shot, Swain back? I think so. 

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!

[ClubWhatever]

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

[pinkman_90]

35 minutes ago, 817 Boxing B said:

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!

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.