Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Elite D2 Scorer Cam McDowell Visits | How Would Bill Self Use the Transfer Guard for Kansas?

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Kansas Jayhawks Basketball eyes Division 2 standout Cameron McDowell. Could this transfer portal addition be the missing piece for Bill Self's squad?Derek Johnson breaks down McDowell's impressive off...ensive stats, including his 27.3 points per game and 39% three-point shooting at Northwest Oklahoma State. The analysis covers McDowell's potential fit in the Jayhawks' system, his shooting prowess, and concerns about his defensive abilities at the D1 level after previous stops at Georgia and Jacksonville State. Key topics include comparisons to former Kansas sharpshooter Jalen Coleman-Lands and how McDowell's skills might translate to Big 12 competition.Will McDowell's offensive firepower outweigh defensive question marks? Tune in for an in-depth look at this intriguing Kansas transfer target.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGEfor $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Kansas had a visitor. Could they be searching to the D2 ranks to bring in their next Transfer Portal edition with Cam McDowell? You are Locked 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 Jay Hawks. Thanks for making it your first listen every day and thank you to the everydayers catching each and every episode of the show wherever you get your podcast or on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe.
Starting point is 00:00:40 And again, thank you for tuning in to each and every episode and you are an everydayer. And on today's episode We're gonna be talking Cameron McDowell He is a division to transfer one of the best players from division to one of the scores From division to this past season how he would fit in with Kansas what he would bring to the table and potential fit in terms of possible role if he were a Jayhawk as it sounds like he was just visiting Lawrence at the end of this past week. First today's episode of the show is brought to you by game
Starting point is 00:01:10 time. You can download the game time app, create an account and use code locked on college for $20 off your first purchase with game time. Alright, so who is Cam McDowell? Full a full name Cameron, I think he mostly goes by Cam. He is a six foot five, 185 pound left-handed guard. I think, you know, for his team, he was, there were times where maybe he was handling it a little bit. Mostly I view him as a two, three guard, you know, two, three kind of in that range. He's originally from the state of Georgia. He was a three star recruit out of high school top 250 nationally,
Starting point is 00:01:47 according to 24 seven sports. And then he wound up, you know, going to the nearby school went to Georgia in the SEC also had an offer to Virginia Tech, eventually transferred out of there goes to Jacksonville State, which is also D one, and then transfers out of there and drops down to Northwest Oklahoma State at the D two level level where he has two really productive seasons, including his most recent year in which he was the second highest scorer in Division Two basketball
Starting point is 00:02:13 this past season. He was an all-conference pick each of the last two years. So I do know the first thing that comes with this is like, oh, they're going down to D2. Is that worrisome at all? That, you know, you kind of just have to get creative with it at this point. Like there aren't a ton of, of just, you know, obvious options that are out there at this point in time. And I know there might be some trepidations about that. Like, oh, are we sure a D2 kid would be
Starting point is 00:02:39 good enough to play Kansas? I'll just like you look at that Drake team last year. Think about all the kids they had come up from Northwest Missouri State. Now that's a little bit different because that's a super winning culture and program. That was like winning national championships. This isn't that, but from an individual talent standpoint, this kid is putting up really incredible numbers. And I think the other one, especially for KU fans is the,
Starting point is 00:03:03 oh, well they went to D2 and they brought up Cam Martin and that didn't work out that well. Well, I think it's different to me, guards versus big men. A lot of times, the reason that a big man is in D2 or D3, it might just be like a height thing. It could be like height, it could be athleticism or something like that. And in the case of Cam Martin,
Starting point is 00:03:24 I think the thing that just prevented him from like, he actually had a good shooting touch and certain things. He just wasn't the tallest guy in the world. He wasn't gonna be the best rebound or the best defender from the center position. But the difference in guards, like the best guards in D2 versus some of the middle tier guards in Division 1,
Starting point is 00:03:45 sometimes there ain't even a difference. Sometimes actually the D2 guy is better. Like again, Bennett Sturtz, who came up from Northwest Missouri State goes to Drake, and I think he was like a third team All-American this year. So, point being, the guard disparity is a little bit different because typically, again, like the guard,
Starting point is 00:04:04 it might just be that you're a D2 because you were a little bit smaller or typically, again, like the guard, it might just be that you're a D2 because you were a little bit smaller or because you wanted that bigger opportunity or whatever it is. Like I don't have as many questions when a guard jumps up from that level than I do if it is a big man. I think you have to ask yourself this question. Would you rather have one of the best players in division two, who you probably don't have to worry about as much getting eligible? Or would you rather have a young player who hasn't produced it, say, like a second
Starting point is 00:04:33 league level in some random country, who maybe shows potential, and they're already 20 years old, but it's like a lower league, and it's going to be a struggle to get eligible? I think you probably take the first option, right? Now, if the second option is on a good senior team in the first division of a good European league, that's a different conversation. But there is some sort of line there. And like, again, it's not just the D two players we've seen have success and jumps, D three players, even NAIA players have made
Starting point is 00:05:02 successful jumps and had like really successful see I go back to that Morehead State team. The loss to Illinois in the first round is a 14 seed in the 2024 NCAA tournament. And the Minix kid was like one of the best players in I mean, he was their conference player of the year, he jumped up from the NAIA level. And now he's like with the Spurs organization. So you can find good players at any level D D2, D3, NAIA, they are out there. Again, don't swear this off just because of the Cam Martin experience.
Starting point is 00:05:32 That's the same logic as I remember last year there were, and again, I don't mean to like call out an individual person if this is how you felt. I'm just trying to say try not to view it this way. Last off season, there were some KU fans that were like, I don't know about the Zeke Mayo edition. It's just going to be Nick Timberlake 2.0, right? And I tried to say, no, I'm telling you, they are different players. Look at what they do. Look at this, this and that, right?
Starting point is 00:05:55 And that is the same thing here. Don't just swear off every D2 kid because one of them didn't end up being a rotation player in Cam Martin. That doesn't mean that every kid who is going to follow that path, it's the same thing too when Kansas brought in Lance Leipold. I know there were a few, again, these are small majorities
Starting point is 00:06:12 or small minority numbers of people, right? It only might be 1% of the fan base or something. But they were like, oh, no, we tried the Buffalo head coach thing with Turner Gill and it didn't work. Okay, but Lance Leipold and Turner Gill, and proof is in the pudding now are different people, right? Just because there's one similarity in something doesn't mean it's always going to have the same output. But I'll just say this
Starting point is 00:06:33 overall, I think this would be a very creative addition for Bill Self. And at this point, Kansas needs to be creative. Kansas has to be creative because you're at a point where again, there aren't a lot of obvious options, a lot of obvious candidates for you to go out there and get. And with the cloudiness of bringing in players overseas in terms of just getting them eligible, that makes things even more difficult to try to figure out what good players you can bring on. And so I don't know that McDowell comes in as being somebody that I
Starting point is 00:07:04 would view as like, okay, he'd be a game changer. We'll get into a scouting report here in a second, but could he be a role player? Could he be a rotation player? Yes, he absolutely could do those things. And from a standpoint of not having to worry to get it eligible in terms of going through
Starting point is 00:07:18 the student visa process, which is paused, in terms of probably not breaking the bank with NIL. It seems like Kansas at this point is on a tighter NIL budget. Or, you know, to round out the roster, right? The roster already has a good amount of money invested into it just to round it out. It's, you know, it would be helpful to have some almost budget additions to a certain standpoint. For that reason, it kind of makes sense. So I like the creativity here.
Starting point is 00:07:43 Let's get more into the numbers, into the scouting report, how you'd fit in with Kansas. Maybe my big question about one side of the ball. We get to that next. This is Locked on Jayhawks. And today's episode of the show is brought to you by Game Time, where you can obviously go to, I mean, if you want to go to like a game seven or something like that of I don't know
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Starting point is 00:09:08 Again, create an account and read and code LOCKDOWNCOLEGE. Download Game Time today. Last minute tickets. Lowest price. Guaranteed. Thanks again for joining us on this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks. Don't forget to make Lockdown College football and Lockdown College basketball your second listen every day. All right, so what is the path here for McDowell? So he goes to Georgia as a freshman, 21 to 22 season, seven games played, 44 total minutes, seven total points.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Not a lot to talk about there. Then 22 to 23 at Jacksonville State. He plays eight games, 108 minutes. He scores 23 points. So that means over his two years at D1, he plays a combined 15 games, 152 minutes. He goes 11 of 31 from the field, one of seven from three. That's such a small sample size in each game he's coming in.
Starting point is 00:09:58 It's probably only for a few minutes here or there that I really just don't want to even look at it. Then he goes to Northwest Oklahoma State at the Division two level, where he was deemed a redshirt sophomore. So one of those years he was given a redshirt year, either the Georgia or the Jacksonville state year. And that's why he would have one more year for this year with Kansas. I also don't know with this whole, you know, there is a chance with this whole
Starting point is 00:10:19 suing stuff and OK, the year doesn't count. What if one of his D two years doesn't count in the same way like one of the Juco years doesn't count? And then could he have two years left to play? I'm just assuming he would only have one, but maybe you could finagle it that way. I don't know. So in his first year in Northwest Oklahoma State, he plays 29 minutes per game.
Starting point is 00:10:37 He averages about 16 points, a little over three rebounds, two assists per game on 52 from the field, 38 from three and 84 at the foul line. Very, very good there. And he played 18 of those 29 games off the bench. I like that for the translation to Kansas that he seems content in some way and coming off the bench and making an impact because that would probably be the most likely role if he were to come to Kansas, right? Especially in missing the summer at this point. This past season, he becomes like the guy on the team.
Starting point is 00:11:07 He's playing 36 minutes per game, 27 games of action, 27.3 points per game. Again, that was second in D2. 4.7 rebounds per game, 2.9 assists per game, two steals per game, 0.7 blocks per game, on a very exciting 51% from the field, 39% from three, 83% at the free throw line. So this past season, he was All-Conference first team, and then the year before he was
Starting point is 00:11:34 All-Conference second team. So again, really good production in those two years. In 2023 to 24, his first year there, his on-off net rating was 12 points better per 100 possessions on offense, so the team was about 12 points better per 100 possessions on offense. So the team was about 12 points better when he was on the floor offensively. That put him in the 93rd percentile. So about as impactful of an offensive player as there is defensively though, the team was worse on the defensive end. The team was four points worse per 100 points per possession when he was out there. So the team didn't have a very good defense to begin with, but it got even worse when he was out there in his first year.
Starting point is 00:12:06 What about his second year? Well, in his second year, he plays more minutes, obviously. He goes is on off o rating. They were about 4.2 points per 100 possessions better when he was on the floor. So they're still better on the offensive end 66 percentile. But again, they were worse with him on the defensive end. They were about five points worse per 100 possessions defensively when he was out there on the floor.
Starting point is 00:12:30 So you're looking at somebody who offensively over his two years there, they were on average about eight points per 100 possessions better on offense when he was out there. That's very good. But defensively, they were on average about four and a half points worse when he was out there. So that is some questions about what is the defense, but the offensive numbers are elite,
Starting point is 00:12:50 man. 97th percentile in division two for true shooting percentage in the 23-24 season, 96th percentile in true shooting percentage this past season, and that's coming from a guard who's on high volume, man. 27 points per game, taking a lot of shots for a team that's not the best team in the world. To do that efficiency is incredible. Also 93rd percentile effective field goal percentage, 93rd percentile field goal percentage and two point
Starting point is 00:13:17 percentage and 79th percentile and three point percentage, 81st percentile in free throw percentage. He is just an offensive and shooting and efficiency juggernaut. 2023 to 24, he was 89th percentile in offensive RAPM, which is the CBB analytics, like offensive metric. He was also 96th percentile in offensive windchairs. And then this past season,
Starting point is 00:13:40 he was 64th percentile in offensive RAPM, 99th percentile in offensive windchairs. So again, you're talking about somebody just elite offensive player he gets the free throw line a ton 90th percentile and 83rd percentile in terms of free throw attempt rates in his two years there So again able to force the action get to the free throw line rebounding wise If you look at his numbers, they're being compared to guards. He had a 59th percentile offensive rebound rate 57th percentile defensive rebound rate for guards. He's
Starting point is 00:14:10 an above average rebounder. So if you view him more as a two guard, he's a fine rebounder, right? If you view him more as a three, he'd probably go to be more of like a below average, but not somebody who's just going to kill you there type of rebounder, I think is what you would look at there, right? Compared to wings, it would be a little bit lower. But one thing I really liked, he had pretty high turnover numbers his first year
Starting point is 00:14:31 at Northwest Oklahoma State. And I don't know if this was just the result of hard work or something he really worked on year to year, but it just showed improvement is the main goal here. He was 24th percentile in turnover rate in the 2023 to 2024 season. This past season, he improved that to 65th percentile turnover rate. So he did a much better job of taking care of the basketball, even though he was asked to play a bigger role. He also has good block and steel numbers going back to the idea that okay, the defense seems a little suspect on that team number, the individual defensive numbers actually look good. Ninety third percentile in Hakim rate in 2023 to 2024, which is block plus steel rate. Right. And then 90th percentile Hakim rate in 2024 plus 2025.
Starting point is 00:15:14 So, again, his block plus steel rate ranked in basically the top 10 percent of D2 basketball over his two years there. So I think, you know, to sum it up, though, to me, like the biggest skill here, the biggest idea you would be bringing this kid in for is for the shooting. He could play the 2-3 for you, but like it's because of the shooting and the scoring that this is a possibility for KU. He went 124 of 321 from three in his two years
Starting point is 00:15:45 of D2. That's 38.6% from three on 5.7 attempts per game. So just taking a lot of them taking a lot for a team that you know, some even had to be contested had a good amount of like step back threes contested threes and he's still making them a very high clip. Also shot almost 84% on well over 300 free throw attempts. He's just an elite shooter basically. I mean, there's a chance that if you add this kid, he comes in and is your best shooter right away.
Starting point is 00:16:09 I don't know that that would be a guarantee. Like it could end up being Jayden Dawson, could end up being Noah Shelby, could end up being Darren Peterson even, right? But this guy would certainly be at the top of that list in terms of conversation for best shooter on the team. As far as where he shot well on the floor, well, pretty much everywhere. Seventy two percent at the rim.
Starting point is 00:16:31 It was 74 percent the year prior. That's 87th percentile this past year, by the way. And he does put pressure on the rim a lot, too. It's not just three points. Over 12 point paint points per game, which was 98th percentile. He was 48 percent in the mid range. That was 98th percentile. He was 48% in the mid-range. That was 83rd percentile. He was 37.3% above the break threes. That's 70th percentile. And then he was 46.3% from the corner, which was 79th percentile. He was also 9 of 18 the year before, so that number would go up even more
Starting point is 00:17:00 if you just talk career numbers. Again, just everywhere on the court, this guy's shooting well. He's shooting efficiently. He can get a bucket. Obviously, you have to question the jump up from D two to D one and specifically not just D two D D one, but D two to the big 12. And that kind of is the big question here, especially since he struggled in his time at the previous D one stops, right? Is, and that's kind of the big question of like, okay, did he struggle at Georgia and Jacksonville State to be a consistent rotation player?
Starting point is 00:17:30 Did he struggle because he just wasn't good enough for that level? Or to where going down to D2, the reason he had success is because it was players more on his playing field. Or, and I think this is one that gets lost in the shuffle all the time. Did he just get better and he happens to get better while he was at D2?
Starting point is 00:17:50 Like theoretically here's what I'm saying. In another world, let's say he stays at Jacksonville State for these last two years and he's there for three years. Does he slowly get better at Jacksonville State and you know he averages 15 points per game at Jacksonville state last year. I think that's a very real possibility right. He is a better player now obviously he's more experienced player now he's more seasoned player now than when he was last at divisional in basketball if that sort of makes sense but you do have to at least have that question that like okay
Starting point is 00:18:19 he's been there before and it didn't totally work so even though he's a younger player and not as good player you do have to question how would that work at Kansas. But he was a pretty consistent player this past year too. He only had three games in single digits. He had 23 games of 20 or more points and he showed a high ceiling. He scored 35 or more points on eight occasions, including 41 points and 44 points
Starting point is 00:18:40 on two separate occasions. Now, the two big questions I have here are impact on winning and defense. His team was 14 and 15 this year. They went 31 and 28 combined in two years. If he was this like all world player at D2, you would think they'd be having a little bit more success. You also look at Georgia and Jacksonville State
Starting point is 00:19:01 going 19 and 44 the two years he was there. But even as I'm saying it, like it feels a little bit unfair to count those against him because he didn't play a ton of Georgia Jacksonville State. So like how much impact could he have on whether the team was winning or losing? And as far as Northwest Oklahoma State, like, yeah, you would like to see them go better than 31 and 28.
Starting point is 00:19:19 Honestly, if you look at the rest of the roster, if you take him off, it might've been one of those situations where they were like five and 25 or something like that. Because it's not like he was just averaging 27 points per game because he was getting up 40 shots per game and he was only shooting 40% from the field and 30% from three and he's just chucking
Starting point is 00:19:38 and taking bad shots, but he's filling up the stat sheet just on volume. That was not the case. Again, his shooting efficiency numbers, 51 from the field, 39 from three, 83 at the foul line. Those are excellent, especially on high volume. Right. So it's not like that was the case. And the rest of the team, if you take him off the team, the rest of the team only shot 41 percent from the floor,
Starting point is 00:19:57 31 percent from three, 77 percent at the foul line. And there was only one other player on the team who even averaged eight or more points per game. So I don't think this was a him thing on the team who even averaged 8 or more points per game. So I don't think this was a him thing that the team didn't have a ton of success. So honestly, I'm going to actually throw that question out of the window. I feel good about that. But the real question I have is going to be the defensive side of the ball. Let's touch on that next as well as what his fit would be and possible role with KU.
Starting point is 00:20:20 Thanks for joining us on this episode of Locked on Jayhawks. Alright, the big question I have for Cam McDowell would be because he is an awesome, awesome offensive player. And even though you do have the jump from D2 to D1, I think you would be able to translate some of those skills, his scoring ability, his shooting into the D1 level. The big question I have is the defense. So we went over some of the individual defenses that steel and block stuff look pretty good. We went over the team on individual defense stats, steel and block stuff looked pretty good. We went over the team on-off numbers looked very bad.
Starting point is 00:20:47 What about some of the defensive metrics that are provided? Okay, so 26th percentile in on-off derating, 18th percentile in defensive RAPM, 38th percentile in defensive wind shares. Those are all numbers from his 2023 to 2024 season, his first season with Northwest Oklahoma State. All of those are lining up to say he was below average to a poor defender at the D2 level.
Starting point is 00:21:13 What about 2024 to 2025? This past season, he was 20th percentile in defensive on-off rating. He was only seventh percentile in defensive RAPM, and he was 46th percentile in defensive wind shares. But again, you question that by saying, okay, so maybe the team stats don't like him. Is there something there that makes that just noisy where it's not actually a reflection of what his defense is? And again, you might point to the block and steal numbers and say
Starting point is 00:21:40 that he has really good block and seal numbers. Maybe he is a good defender, right? There's also the possibility some guys are good risk reward defenders, right? They might be somebody who's gonna get beat off the ball a good amount, because they're gonna give up a lot of cuts, but they might also end up with a couple of steals per game, right?
Starting point is 00:21:56 Maybe that defines his game. Maybe that's possibly why it is kind of like that. It's also of course like how much of that is contextual being on a bad team, where being on a bad team is weighing that down. Being on a team with poor teammates is kind of weighing that down. How much of that also is the, I guess, like gigantic offensive load that he had to endure, right? He had a 99th percentile usage rate, and so you're just not going to have as much energy defensively.
Starting point is 00:22:24 But then again, the year before playing a little less minutes per game, the defensive numbers aren't all that much better. So I don't know. So actually, to answer this, I went over to a trusty, trusty old YouTube, I guess. And they have a game on there against Southern Nazarene. And I would recommend watching it because it's it's, I don't know, you get the full game context, right? So a couple of things that I came away with in watching it,
Starting point is 00:22:52 his team ran like after makes after made shots, his team ran like a diamond press type of it was. It was kind of like a full core press type of thing. And that explains why he's racking up steel numbers and the chaos stats, because it's kind of a a full-court press type of thing. And that explains why he's racking up steel numbers and the chaos stats, because it's kind of a system thing, right? That might also explain why some of the team defensive stats might not be as good,
Starting point is 00:23:13 because if your team gets beat on the press, you're giving up a lot of open looks. You're giving up a lot of easy baskets. And so if the team's not very good, you know, and you're getting beat on the press a lot, you're gonna give up a lot of those easy baskets, whether it's your fault or not. So I think that explains kind of both of those things. I will say, I was just like, when they were on the defense side of the ball, I was just lasering in on him. I didn't really care what anybody else was doing was only watching like what he was doing. I would say when he was an engaged defender, he was a good defender. He had good athleticism. He's got pretty good size at six foot five, right? He was able to stay in front of guys and keep away, especially early in the game too. He was doing a good job marking shooters too. As the game went on,
Starting point is 00:23:54 I noticed a lot of times where he was caught not watching the ball or what opposite, not watching his guy and ball watching, where he was just watching the ball just standing there. And then his guy cuts somewhere else, and he gives up an open shot or an open cut. I noticed a couple times where he was just standing, not really doing anything. I also noticed a couple times where, you know, maybe there was a loose ball or rebound, and he's just standing there kind of loafing around not wanting to go get it. And maybe that's where the energy thing of playing all
Starting point is 00:24:21 those minutes kind of comes into play. I would just say I think there were a good amount like, there was potential there, but there were also a good thing of playing all those minutes kind of comes into play. I would just say, I think there were a good amount, like there was potential there, but there were also a good amount of possessions where he looked kind of checked out maybe a little bit from here or there. It was inconsistent. It wasn't all the time.
Starting point is 00:24:34 It wasn't for like, you know, long stretches. It just might be here or there. But here's where it comes into play with the role at KU. If you do that with Bill Self in Kansas, especially if you're not like one of the guys that's already in his trust tree, if you're not one of the guys who's already playing big minutes, like he'll give you a little more leeway if you're you're in those things. Or if you're somebody who is playing 30 minutes per game, if you're somebody who's coming
Starting point is 00:24:56 off the bench, if you're somebody who's a role player, if you're somebody who might be, you know, in the case of McDowell, maybe if you added him, he'd be your sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth man somewhere in that range. If you're in that range of player and you do have a defensive lapse, you do have a play where you get caught ball watching and your guy gets a wide open shot, what do we know that Bill Self will do? He's yanking them, you know? So that would be the big challenge for me. But then again, if we talk about his role and if that is his role and if and if his role is more of the Jalen Coleman lands, diggy, court role, I think the Jalen Coleman lands on probably more apt because JCL was like a six, four shooting guard, and McDowell's like a six, five shooting guard, essentially. Maybe that's okay, because in that specific
Starting point is 00:25:38 role, you're not really expecting like you're bringing him on to shoot, that should be your expectation. And so the idea that, okay, well okay well you know Bill Self didn't let like Rylan Griffin and AJ store thrive For kind of those reasons that maybe they'd have those those mental lapses in the game Okay, but that was also both those players were still playing like 20 minutes per game That's just what prevented them from playing 25 30 minutes per game So if it's a smaller role, maybe that doesn't matter as much. So I guess bottom line here, I think this would be a really creative addition.
Starting point is 00:26:09 I think it'd be a good one for KU, right? You get somebody who probably isn't gonna break the bank for you that I think has potential to, I mean, possibly be like, if it translates well enough, maybe he's even your sixth man. And maybe he's even like the, when Darren Peterson goes to the bench. He's like your your microwave six man type of score, right? There is
Starting point is 00:26:29 potential there. The middle ground is that Jalen Coleman lands role where it's like some nights you're part of the rotation, others you're not, but you're a good three point shooter that we can bring in. And we know Kansas needs three point shooting, right? And then the downside is just that, okay, well, if these things don't come together, then you're on the fringe of the rotation, but you know you have more competition in the practice room and everything So I would say this would be a good addition for KU I do have some questions in terms of just how good it would be but I think it makes sense in a lot of ways
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