Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - AJ Storr EXITS + Kansas Transfer Target Deep Dive: Amarri Monroe Includes Jayhawks in Final Six

Starting point is 00:00:00 AJ Storz, officially in the transfer portal, is the musical chairs of exits, plus a deep dive into a player that appeared on a top 6 list, averaging almost 20 points per game, almost 10 rebounds per game at a smaller school. Let's discuss all that on today's episode of Walked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on? Derek Johnson here. This is Locked on Jayhawks.

Starting point is 00:00:39 You can find it anywhere you get your podcast, including on YouTube, or you can like and subscribe to the show. Thank you for making it your first listen every day. Thank you to the everydayers catching all of our episodes here with Locked on Jayhawks. The transfer portal continues on for KU Basketball. AJ Storr officially enters into the transfer portal. We're also going to do a target deep dive on Kansas making the final six for Amari Monroe, a transfer from Quinnipiac. And we'll get into all that how he fits in scouting report and

Starting point is 00:01:08 stuff. Let's start with the AJ store news first this episode of the show though is brought to you by five hour energy head to five hour energy calm to find over 15 flavors to choose from need one right now grab a five hour energy shot at your local grocery or convenience store stock up today and stay energized. So we just had an episode yesterday or whatever if you're in everyday you caught it and we kind of talked about the like, okay, why is store not entered yet? And is there some smoke? Is there some noise that maybe he could end up sticking around and then he ends up transferring away?

Starting point is 00:01:38 We I don't know, maybe we have superpowers because we just did a quiche on haul deep dive and then like the very next day he commits not to Kansas, but Auburn in the end. So I guess whoever we talk about today, I'm doing this. Yeah, we're going to talk about a Mario Monroe later. He's probably just going to commit tomorrow. That's just how this has been working. But with store entering the portal, it kind of wraps up what you figure to be portal season at this point for Kansas.

Starting point is 00:02:04 It doesn't officially wrap everything up. And portal season at this point for Kansas. It doesn't officially wrap everything up. And we are at a point in time now where you almost need more players to do what Bryson Tiller did and make some sort of a post on social media to like confirm you're you're going to be here next season. Right. But it does seem like a Larko Jackson does seem like tomorrow McDowell will be here does seem like obviously after that from Bryson Tiller does seem like Darren Peterson does seem like at this point, Samice Calderon that we have seen the past couple years where, you know, there has been a freshman like obviously last year was LeBaron Phylon. We saw Marcus Adams the year before that as well as was it Chris Johnson.

Starting point is 00:02:37 We've seen freshmen or multiple really the last couple years who were planning on coming to KU and then it just didn't happen at the end. So we'll see if that ends up happening with maybe a guy like Samiz Calderon or not, but I'm going to assume he's here for now. And then I guess the last big one is what happens with Noah Shelby, who came in as a walk on but was going to earn his way to the scholarships. And he's a former scholarship player at lower levels and Vanderbilt and Rice and stuff. And now the roster expands that walk ons, you're looking for somebody to be, you know, content kind of in that role and Shelby, a good shooter can kind of be at the back end of the

Starting point is 00:03:10 roster. So store kind of clears away that by not having him anymore. Obviously, things did not go according to plan for a J store this season or for Kansas with a J store this season, like think about this, he averaged almost 17 points per game. This season before at Wisconsin. He only surpassed his average at Wisconsin in one single game at Kansas. And it was that one toward the end of the season in the big 12th tournament against UCF. Now obviously, it came toward the

Starting point is 00:03:41 end of the year and he had two good outings in his last three performances. And, you know know there there was some maybe a little bit more, you know, encouragement from fans after that to be like okay well he started to show something well maybe get him back another year right. I don't know. I guess like it wouldn't shock me to see AJ Stor at his next school that he goes to put up good points. If he goes somewhere that he can be the primary like perimeter option, I think that would be best for him in that school. I just looking back, the fit was never there. And it's one of those that, you know, it is a little hindsight 2020. Like I do remember last year being a little lower on it. And then when it happened, I talked myself into it. And I, you know that, okay, well, they'll make it work. It's just a very talented player. You give Bill self-talent.

Starting point is 00:04:35 I'll make it work. I think we found out the no the fit is very important. And so for Bill self, I've been talking about this a lot. If he if you're not a good defender, you have to kind of be a good rebounder. You know, you have to do something else, for instance. Or if you're not a good rebounder, you have to be a good defender, right?

Starting point is 00:04:54 And AJ Storr was neither of those. And so from that standpoint, it just wasn't there. And again, I don't think AJ Storr is a bad kid or anything, but also he's just not one of those players whose motor runs at a 100% level like all the time. And I think that can wear on you if you're Bill Self and how he coaches and what he demands of players, not just on the floor, but in practice.

Starting point is 00:05:15 And then you go back and you think, I know it's easy to think about some of the, like the block he had, the chase down against Arkansas and the last couple of games, you know, two of the last three doing what he did from scoring output. But like, there were a lot of plays last season where he just threw the ball away to no one or it was a very lazy pass that went away or just made kind of head scratching

Starting point is 00:05:34 decisions that you can understand why it's best for both parties to move on. Like I said, I could see AJ Stor having a big season next year, wherever he winds up, which will be his eighth school in eight years when you go back to his high school days. And maybe that's the lesson here. As you're looking at this, it's not just the lesson of okay, Bill Self needs players that, you know, you have to do one of

Starting point is 00:05:55 the two rebounding or defend, right? And I guess if you want to say like, oh, well, the point guard, that's a different position. Sure. Whatever. If you're a wing or your center, you have to do one of the two. And preferably, Bill Self wants you to do both. But in the case of AJ Storr, it was like, OK, you know,

Starting point is 00:06:13 you're not really a great three point shooter. You are a fine three point shooter. You're not rebounding. You're not defending. Yes, you can score. And also it was a bad fit in terms of he's best scoring when he's able to find creases to get to the rim while you're not having as many of those with two bigs. So that was unfortunate for him too. Although at Wisconsin, he played next to two bigs and that worked okay. Neither here nor

Starting point is 00:06:34 there. When you look at it, that's one takeaway, right? Like you're better off getting dogs, so to speak, like guys who are going to do those little things, who maybe don't have as much potential or ceiling or scoring punch that AJ Storr does on paper or did on paper. Because if they don't click with Bill Self, you're not going to get the playing time, you're not going to get the opportunity to utilize that scoring punch anyway. So it just becomes wasted, you know? And so to that standpoint, you know, I think you have to adjust that way and how you approach the portal this go around, right? Obviously, without Stort, that means no real wings on the KU roster.

Starting point is 00:07:19 I mean, if you want to count Calderon as a wing, I I almost differentiate like you can have wings or two three wings more of you like your Rylan Griffin. I guess Josh Dix type wings. And then you have your wings that are more you're like three four wings kind of your Jaylen Wilson types right? Amari Monroe who we're going to talk about

Starting point is 00:07:39 store kind of interesting because not a good enough rebounder to be in the the four class. He's just like a three. He's just a pure three. I mean, that's part of it, too. You want guys that are versatile, right? You can play multiple positions to a store. He just was a three. You might have tried to get away with playing him some of the four because of the rebounding stuff like you just didn't have that there. But no real wings on the

Starting point is 00:08:00 roster because I almost count Calderon is just like four specifically, like I don't know that you'd want to play him at the three. So that means no real wings on the roster because I almost count Calderon as just like four specifically. Like I don't know that you'd want to play him at the three. So that means no real wings on the roster, which you're going to have to recruit a bunch of now at this point. But as much as I say that where it's like, yeah, they got to go get wings now. They lost all their wings.

Starting point is 00:08:17 They don't have any wings. Last time they won a national championship, they had all these great wings. At the same point in time, they don't have a lot of anything on the roster. I mean, they've six scholarship players, assuming Noah Shelby counts into that for 14 scholarships available this year because the one they have to give away for the final one. So

Starting point is 00:08:35 eight scholarships are available for Kansas at this point in time. So it's not just the wings, it's just they need like everything in general. So like if we're looking at the shopping list here for Bills Elf, you're looking for a guard to start next to Darren Peterson. And honestly, based on the way that Kansas has approached the portal so far, you know, maybe not going all in on Donovan Dent, right? It doesn't seem like they've been linked super highly to someone like the point guard.

Starting point is 00:08:58 Seems like they've been linked a little bit more to the shooting guard type. So what is that? I mean, we heard all about the Darren Peterson would be kind of the point guard for them, but he still wondered if they would bring in a combo guard that basically would be two point guards out there. It feels like the way to me that their entry, the portal Peterson is like the point guard, and they're looking for more of a complimentary guard,

Starting point is 00:09:18 a shooting guard to play next to them. So it looks like that would be the option that they're going to at least just based on, you know, what it feels like at this point in time, who knows? They need a starting five man. You lose Florida, but don't get now, hypothetically, Bryson Diller could be that, but coming off the injury, it's going to be a freshman. Like, I don't think you should count on that. They need a starting four man. Now it is up to Bill Self,

Starting point is 00:09:41 whether that's more of a power forward or whether that's a wing necessarily. I think my preference would be a wing, but if you do get more of an undersized center, maybe it does make sense to get a power forward versus if you get like a really big center, probably makes more sense to get a wing who can shoot a little bit more. So that'll kind of depend what you do there.

Starting point is 00:09:58 You might need another starter in addition to that to play the three, right? If you have Peterson at the one, if you have whatever two guard you bring in at the two, then your four and five you still need a three now it depend that one depends on Marco Jackson what if El Marco does come back from the injury and looks like the guy he was maybe trending to be last offseason and then you start Peterson Jackson and the two three guard that you got in addition to the other players that is entirely possible but also again bad as bad of an injury as a mark of

Starting point is 00:10:26 ad, I think it would be fair to assume he would take a jump in his level of competition. But once you account for the injury, he has to now overcome the injury jump that it's like, what are you going to get there? You don't know, but they need bench pieces to you probably need a three point shooter there. You need somebody in the Jalen Coleman lands role, you need backup bigs, you need bench bigs, you need bench wings, it's really just everything. So maybe there's

Starting point is 00:10:45 someone in the portal who can help. What about about Amari Monroe, who we're going to talk about here on a deep dive. This is Lockdown Jayhawks. This episode of the show is brought to you by Fabric. Life moves fast, especially when you have a family. One day you're watching your kids take their first steps and before you know it, they're off to college. That's why securing the future is so important. Fabric by Gerber Life makes it simple to get term life insurance that fits your family needs. With Fabric, you can apply for term life insurance online right from your couch.

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Starting point is 00:12:52 And you know, I know it feels like it's never going to happen, but like they will start getting commits. I can promise you that. Now, will it be up to the caliber of the high expectations? Yeah, that I cannot promise, but they will start getting some players at some point in time to commit to them. We'll break those down when they happen here on the Lock. J-AXA, make sure you're subscribed to the show. Okay, we're going to get into one of those deep dives right now. And that would be one

Starting point is 00:13:11 Amari Monroe because he announced earlier today he is down to six schools, Rutgers, Connecticut, I guess, Yukon, Miami, Ole Miss, Pitt, and then obviously Kansas. And I should say this, like, if you've been watching, if you're an everyday airman, catching past shows, you know, at certain points, I bring up the handy dandy Google sheet with all the transfer targets that I either see, you know, there's reports online about Kansas having, you know, contact with,

Starting point is 00:13:40 or just players that I see enter the portal. I'm like, oh, I think that would be a good fit for cancer or maybe at least interesting in that specific role or something like that. Right. And I did not have a Mario Monroe on there even after looking into him a little bit, because I didn't think he was exactly a fit. You look at the raw numbers, you're like, Oh, my gosh, this guy's averaging like, you know, he's averaging 18.1 points per game 9.1 rebounds per game last season for Quinnipiac.

Starting point is 00:14:06 And then you start looking into the efficiency numbers. Then you start wondering about, OK, would he have to play a bench roll at Kansas? And then you figure a guy who's been putting up those numbers is like, yeah, he's probably going to want to start somewhere. Right. So I don't think that's a fit for kids. But then you see this list come out and OK, well, I guess then it deserves me putting him back on the list So I've put him on the list. I've done the deep dive and here we go. And I will say too. I mentioned this all the time

Starting point is 00:14:31 Sometimes some of the lists you see come out there from different kids and that involved Kansas Doesn't actually involve cancer or it is in some other cases It does but it's not to the level that it makes it sound like like sometimes You'll see a list of schools where it's like a bunch of mid-masters and that's, but it's not to the level that it makes it sound like like sometimes you'll see a list of schools where it's like a bunch of mid-majors and that's Kansas and it's like, wait, what is Kansas doing there? And in reality, either Kansas just didn't call and they're putting it up there because they'll self stocking to come out and be like, no, that

Starting point is 00:14:55 kid's a liar. That's just bad business, right? For themselves, it'd be bad business for working with that agent, right? So you're not going to deny it. The other part of it is sometimes it's true that like, again, you get this list of schools, and it's a bunch of majors, and then Kansas. And it's possible to build self just called in was like, Hey, we're looking for somebody to be our ninth man, our 10th man, would you be interested in that? Are you looking to go start

Starting point is 00:15:17 somewhere? The kids like, No, I kind of want to go start somewhere, right? Even if it's a smaller school, I want to go start somewhere. And at that point, you can say, Oh, well, there was some interest in Kansas. Didn't say what type of interest it was or for me to be. So sometimes you do have to take those lists with a bit of skepticism, and it's impossible to know which or what, right? But I'll say this, the fact that it is, it's all power, Rutgers, Big Ten, Pitt, ACC, UConn, Big East, Miami, ACC, Ole Miss, SEC, Kansas, Big 12. The fact that that is the list tells me that, no, this is very real.

Starting point is 00:15:51 Now, how much does the full court press on? I don't know. I do also find it interesting that Bill Self is very tight with Chris Beard, and they offered him from Ole Miss, right? So that probably tells you this is very real, at least it does to me. So let's dive into this. Let's start here. And this will be a good stat to throw out. CBB Analytics has this cool little tool that you can compare and

Starting point is 00:16:12 contrast player profiles based on their statistical profile. Nothing about actually watching their game or whatever, but just based on the statistics, right? Comparing them to other players across the country, you can compare them to players in the big 12th. But here were his two top statistical comparisons across the country because they're both interesting players here. So it's on a scale of one to 100. Some players you click like, oh, what's the closest comparison and the closest like an 80, which, you

Starting point is 00:16:39 know, means that there's not really somebody that close to him. There's an 88.8 and an 87.4. The first one is RJ Lewis of St. John's, who is one of the top players in the portal in general. So he compares similarly to him. The other one is former Jay Hawk. And I don't know if he'll get a shot in the NBA. I think he will tie on Grant Foster, who's been really good these past couple seasons at Grand Canyon. That should be encouraging you know, encouraging that that's the case. Now you do have to factor in that those statistics profiles are not graded on the curve or what conference are in.

Starting point is 00:17:11 So the fact that RJ Lewis did those statistics in the Big East versus Mario Monroe doing it in the Mac, the AA Mac, is a little bit different, right? But you're talking about a six foot seven wing that can play the three or the four. He is 220 pounds, he'll be a senior this next season. He started his career at Wofford for one year, then went to Quinnipiac for two years. 18.1 points, 9.1 rebounds, 1.6 assists, really good steal numbers, 2.3 steals per game,

Starting point is 00:17:38 0.8 blocks per game. The efficiency though, not super great. Only 40.5% from the floor. Only 27.3% from three point range, but took a lot of threes, 5.8 threes per game. Did shoot very well at the free throw line. 82.6% on five attempts per game. Overall, the effective field goal percentage,

Starting point is 00:17:58 true shooting percentage are not great, but the on-off numbers are very good for him. He's a plus eight net rating on offense. He's a minus 5.5 on the defensive side. So overall plus 13 and a half on total net rating there. And Bartorvik has a rating system where like the top guys are around like a plus five. That's just generally where it's around. He's a plus 2.3 is kind of middle of the pack of the players there in the transfer world. Now you look at

Starting point is 00:18:24 the strengths for Mario Monroe. He's a very 2.3s kind of middle of the pack of the players there in the transfer portal. Now you look at the strengths for Amari Monroe. He's a very good athlete, big powerful player, 6'7", 220. He's a solid athlete, throws down powerful dunks. He had 29 dunks this past season and that helped him get to 3.6 fast break points per 40 minutes, which ranked him the 98th percentile nationally. So good transition player here. And the athleticism also led to him being good at getting put backs on the offensive end of the floor.

Starting point is 00:18:49 I always say defensive rebounding is about strength, positioning, boxing guys out. Offensive rebounding is more about its quickness, its leaping ability, its craftiness of working around the guy trying to box you out, right? So he had a below average offensive rebound rate right around average, but below average, but he still averaged four and a half second chance points per game that tells you that he has a good

Starting point is 00:19:12 second jump to because when he's getting the offensive rebound, he's putting them back in a high rate. And that ranked in the 92nd percentile for second chance points per game. He also was in the 84th percentile in points per possessions off put back. So we did it efficiently. And he for whatever I mentioned that his on off or his offensive rebound rate wasn't anything that jumped off page too much. But when he was on the floor, the difference of him being on the floor verse off the floor for the team's offensive rebound

Starting point is 00:19:44 rate ranked in the 98th percentile. So something he was doing when he was on the floor was able to help the whole team be a much better offensive rebounding team. I think the athleticism that I mentioned also led to him being a good defensive player. Hard to say without watching a bunch of games how good overall he is on defense. Sometimes guys are just good at getting steals and blocks.

Starting point is 00:20:05 They take risks, but they're not fundamentally sound defenders. I don't have the answer there, but 75th percentile Hakeem rate, 99th percentile steel rate, and he did it all without fouling it undefensively. And how do you complete the defensive possession? You grab the defensive rebound. I guess you get a steal, but we mentioned the steal rate. Good 95th percentile in defensive rebound or I guess you get a steal but we mentioned the steel rate good 95th percentile in defensive rebound

Starting point is 00:20:26 rate. So with his athleticism and power, it allows him to be a good defender. Also, like I said, very strong free throw shooter, 93rd percentile there. And he was on a team that won I mean, not in the top 200 on Ken palm. But that's just because the conference they play and he did what he did in the conference that you would want him to they won the Mac regular season. So he contributed to winning in a real way. And overall, the team, like I said, was about 13 and a half points better per 100 possessions when he was on the floor, which gave him 89th percentile on off rating.

Starting point is 00:20:56 Now as far as the questions, how much were the stats inflated by playing in a lower conference like the Mac? How much were the stats inflated by the fact that Quinnipiac played a top 15 tempo nationally? So you're playing really fast, you're getting extra possessions, you're doing it in a lower level conference, easier to put up the counting test, especially when you look at some of the efficiency numbers that they're not great.

Starting point is 00:21:18 The other question is shooting, only 13th percentile in off the dribble shootings, a really struggled shooting off the dribble. He was a little better on spot ups at 42nd percentile, but that's still slightly below average. And again, important to keep in mind that spot up shooting isn't necessarily catch and shoot catch and shoot counts the spot up shooting, but you can also attack closeout finish a layup something like that. And then you look at the

Starting point is 00:21:43 zones that he shot in, he was just 18th percentile at the rim. He was 18th percentile in the paint was good in mid range 71st percentile in mid range, and then 41st percentile above the right threes at 27%, and 46th percentile on corner threes at almost 30%. So not great shooting numbers there. And that led to efficiency as a whole being kind of a big question here. 15th percentile, an effective field goal percentage, 37th percentile

Starting point is 00:22:10 and free throw temporary. So it made free throws didn't get there a ton necessarily. 23rd percentile and two point percentage, 40th percentile and three point percentage, despite the fact that he took a 91st percentile for three point attempts for 40. So he was taking a lot of threes, wasn't always making them, and then 31st percentile in assist to turnover rate.

Starting point is 00:22:30 And even in transition, where he's good as being an athlete and then threw down some cool dunks, still just 38th percentile in points per possession in transition. So the ball was in his hands a lot. He had a 98th percentage usage rate. Does that mean he needs the ball in his hands

Starting point is 00:22:46 to be comfortable? Or is he comfortable giving it up to where, you know, maybe he, he had to be fit into this role for Quinnipiac and playing more of an offball role will help him with a lot of the efficiency and playing a smaller role will help him with the efficiency. And then he can just thrive on the things he does well. I don't know. That's the big question here. So how would he fit specifically with Kansas? Let's discuss that next. This episode of Lockdown Jayhawks is brought to you by 5Hour Energy. Daylight savings snuck up on us again, and if you're feeling that lost hour of sleep, 5Hour Energy has your back. The extra sunshine means more time for fun, but sometimes you need a little boost to power through. Whether you're staying up late watching the NCAA tournament, squeezing in a round of golf after work, or just trying to keep up with your

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Starting point is 00:24:31 breakdown to see it all for free. It's your team every day. So again check out Lockdown College Basketball. Get you ready for the semifinals. Should be some awesome games. Well, hopefully, I felt like every round, it's like all these really good seeds should be good games and no, not good games. Anyway, for Kansas, Amari Monroe, how would he fit in with KU? We just went over the strengths and questions here. Let's start here. What would he add to the team? Well, Kansas is losing Florida. They were not a

Starting point is 00:25:00 particularly great, they're about middle of the pack nationally, offensive rebound team. And can they make that even better this upcoming season? Well, Florian Badunga was your best offensive rebounder from a season ago. He's gone now. So he would help with the offensive rebounding. I think just in general, if you're looking for KU to be more athletic, which I think we all are, and you have a really good athlete here, you put him with Bill Self, can he hone in on the other parts of his game to build with that athleticism? And then the other part of this is I think the potential to be a really good defender, right? Like I said, I have not watched all the games from Mario Monroe. And it's hard because when you're watching a

Starting point is 00:25:41 highlight package, which I have watched highlight packages of him, you're not getting to watch 30 second shot clock defensive possessions. How's he doing off ball defense? How's he doing on the ball on every play? The only plays your scene is when he gets the steal or the block. So it's like hard to know exactly how good he is defensively, the on-off numbers like him

Starting point is 00:25:57 on the defensive end of the court, I'll tell you that. The, the Hakeem rate, the steal rate like him on that end, his athleticism, his size makes him so that he should be a good defender. So like I'm size makes him so that he should be a good defender. So like I'm leaning to the idea that he probably is a good defender. And so in theory, I think if you bring him on and he's playing a smaller role

Starting point is 00:26:13 than the 98th usage percentage at Quinnipiac and you know, whatever that role ends up being in Kansas. And if he ends up being like a 15 to 20 minute wing off the bench that can be this defensive stopper and provide athleticism and energy off the bench. Actually, I'm kind of in on that because I could see him being that defensive stopper wing that provides the rebounding and the energy. But if the idea here is for him to be a starter or for him to play this big role. I don't like that because I don't think the shooting is quite there. I have questions about how does that work with Darren Peterson

Starting point is 00:26:55 with having someone, right? Because I've talked about this before. You can have multiple guys who need the ball in their hands or can make plays with the ball in their hands, but you can't have like all five guys. You can't have four guys on the court necessarily who need that to be the case. And I don't know that this would be a spot that I would want to use up one of those spots, I guess.

Starting point is 00:27:13 So, again, this depends on the role, like a lot of other fits. If the role is bench wing that gives you athleticism and defense and hey, who knows? Maybe the shooting does become more efficient with another year and then all of a sudden you really got something that can turn it into even more. Great. But if the idea here is no, this is starter level role or going to get up a ton of shots or something like that. I'm a little less keen on it at that point in time, because the efficiency just hasn't been there.

Starting point is 00:27:37 That was at a lower level, right. Shooting 40 percent from the floor. The one game, I think I look back at his schedule, the one game he played against a power. I don't even know what's called obviously footballs powerful but basketball you have the big East to so whatever power fi the one power So that is a tough, especially early in the season. Like that is a very tough, like, oh, that's the one power for school we played. It's literally the best defense in the country, right? I don't know now if Houston surpassed them, but whatever. Like that is tough, but it is a little bit wary.

Starting point is 00:28:15 So again, depends on the role here. All right. We'll have more deep dives coming at you more content coming at you too. This has been locked on Jayhawks. See you next time.

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