re: If Burke falls to 6, do you think Monty/Dell will take him?

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For this team, Im going to say getting 2 picks like that would be more valuable than the 1 pick at 6.

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On Friday, I took the train up to Westbury to get a closer look at his two main competitors for the title of best point guard in the draft: Syracuse's Michael Carter-Williams and Lehigh's C.J. McCollum.

...Some NBA teams rank Carter-Williams or McCollum as the No. 1 point guard in the class.

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While Carter-Williams may have the best floor vision of any guard in the draft, McCollum could be the best scoring guard. McCollum averaged 19.1 PPG as a freshman, 21.8 PPG as a sophomore, 21.9 PPG as a junior and was averaging 23.9 PPG as a senior before breaking his foot in late January. AP Photo/Keith Srakocic Scouts know McCollum can score, but can he be an NBA distributor? McCollum made a name for himself as a junior by ranking third in the country in PER and by torching Duke in the 2012 NCAA tournament (30 points, six rebounds and six assists). McCollum is equally comfortable shooting the midrange jump shot and getting to the basket. Thirty-two percent of his shots were at the rim this year and he shot 54 percent. Another 34 percent of his shots were 2-point jumpers and he shot 49 percent. The other 34 percent were 3-pointers, and he shot a sizzling 52 percent from beyond the arc. In the workout I saw, McCollum showed that he won't have any issues with the deeper NBA 3-point line. He shot roughly 70 percent from the NBA 3 in drills I saw. He has an effortless stroke. While his 3-point percentages were often inconsistent during his career, it likely has more to do with the quality of shots he got at Lehigh than his stroke. McCollum is also an excellent rebounder for a guard, picks up steals, and is a willing passer. While he isn't the same sort of athlete that Carter-Williams is, he measured a good 38.5 max vertical jump and was a little above average on the speed drills. However, his foot might still be holding him back a little bit. While it's now 100 percent healthy and he's free to do full workouts, he's been cleared for only a few weeks and is still getting back into elite shape. While the foot looked great (he was cutting well and exploding off the floor for 360-degree dunks), I expect both his quickness and his explosion to improve over the next few months. The biggest question teams are asking is whether McCollum is a point guard. He wasn't asked to play the position at Lehigh and never averaged more than 3.5 assists in a season. Of course, people asked the same question of Damian Lillard. Lillard never averaged more than four assists during his career at Weber State but averaged 6.5 assists his rookie year with Portland. That will be tough to show in a workout setting. So teams are trying other methods. McCollum told me that one team he interviewed with at the draft combine pulled out a deck of cards and asked him to select five cards. After he selected them, the team rep gave him 10 seconds to look at and memorize the cards – number, color and suite. Forty minutes later, when the interview was over, they asked him to recite all the cards. McCollum told me he remembered all of them. The team responded, "Maybe you are smart enough to play point guard in the NBA." If he can convince teams that he's a real point guard or that his ability to score transcends position, I see him going somewhere between No. 5 and 10 in this year's draft.

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McCollum is so damn intriguing. He's going to be legit.

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He shot roughly 70 percent from the NBA 3 in drills I saw. He has an effortless stroke

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He better start learning to play the 2 or be content with a 6th Man position.

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Define a "big 3".

About half the teams I checked out had a starting 3 who was 6'8" or larger.

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