Brendan Marks

And obviously, when he wanted to get after it, he could.

The thing that I think is encouraging for him is, like, from a personality perspective, again, he is as petty as a player you will find in this year's draft.

You know, on his phone lock screen before the season began, he was picked in the 20s in a mock draft, and he kept that as a lock screen in his phone as a motivator.

You know, he wasn't picked to the all ACC preseason team.

He put that on his phone as a motivator and, you know, made it a point to, in his words, kill everybody he played against who made it over him.

So you have someone who already has all the gifts, has all the tools, is young enough that you can buy into the potential.

And then you combine it with that mindset.

I mean, again, if he ends up being the best player in this class, nobody should be surprised.

Yeah, you know, I think that Caleb, he's obviously going into a high pressure situation in Chicago where he's going to be sort of hailed as the guy and the savior.

And, you know, he's probably one of the players in the last couple of decades who's engendered as much hope as anyone coming into the Bulls franchise.

And in North Carolina, he was kind of walking into a similar situation.

You know, his coach, Hubert Davis, was on the hot seat and ultimately did end up getting fired.

And he was the centerpiece of one of the 10 highest paid rosters in all of college basketball.

And from the get go, I mean, he was the definitive slam dunk, no doubt, leader of that team.

They went where he went.

And, you know, there were periods where North Carolina, I think in their second game of the year, they got down by about 10 to Kansas and Darren Peterson.

And in the second half, he said, all right, get on my back.

Let's go.

And North Carolina winds up winning that game.

So I think he has dealt with this level of expectations before at North Carolina.