Brendan Marks

Yeah, absolutely.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, to be honest with you, I couldn't love it anymore.

I've been covering North Carolina players in general since about 2014.

I've covered college basketball for the athletic for eight seasons now.

And he is as competitive a player as I have covered at any school, but especially in North Carolina.

You're asking for a personality, a guy who can be a leader, a guy who can unite people.

He has all of that.

And then physically, I mean, he's still very much growing into his body, but he's already incredibly productive.

He's a tremendous athlete, one of the best athletes in all of college basketball this year, one of the best athletes entering the NBA in this year's class.

And I think it's going to be a couple of years until he puts it all together.

No, he's not a great shooter yet, but the flashes are so exciting.

And knowing his demeanor and knowing how he operates, it's hard for me to imagine a situation in which he isn't a really successful long-term player.

It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Not one bit.

I mean, I think you can make the argument that of those top four guys, he's the most athletic.

And, you know, to me, I kind of liken him physically to a giraffe.

Like he's still growing into his body.

He's still growing into that role.

You know, this was a guy who until last year at North Carolina had never really been that featured guy, you know, in the grassroots circuit, he played alongside Cameron Boozer and Caden Boozer and was kind of that complimentary star.