Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Is Kansas Transfer Target RJ Luis Still an Option for Bill Self or Could He Stay in the NBA Draft?

Starting point is 00:00:00 We've talked about Darian Williams, Dame Sar and others, but what about RJ Lewis, the Big East player of the year? He would certainly be a big splash for Bill Self and KU. We deep dive into how he would fit with the Jayhawks. 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 Jayhawks thanks for making it your first listen every day. Thank you that

Starting point is 00:00:34 every day is catching each and every episode of the show. You can find it anywhere you get your podcasts also on YouTube where you can like and subscribe to the show. And on today's edition of LOJ we're breaking down another possible transfer portal target for Bale South and KU basketball RJ Lewis, the Big East player of the year, I guess, Norm Roberts, former St. John's head coach retired, said Kansas could have a chance of bringing on a different St. John's guy in RJ

Starting point is 00:00:59 Lewis, but he's going through the draft process will get into how he would fit with KU, where he sits among other targets like Darian Williams and Damesar and so forth. We'll will get into how he would fit with KU where he sits among other targets like Darian Williams and Damesar and so forth. We'll also get into the latest news going around with KU athletics as well. Today's episode of the show is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Right now new customers can get $200 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins with FanDuel. Okay, so RJ Lewis, he is a wing from St. John's before that was at

Starting point is 00:01:27 UMass and he's one of the best players available in the portal. Now the flip side to that, similar to what's happening with Darien Williams and Jameer Watkins, a lot of these other, you know, good players that are still left in the portal, they're going into the NBA draft process right now. In the case of Lewis, he just like Darien Williams has been invited to the NBA draft process right now. In the case of Lewis, he just like Darian Williams, has been invited to the NBA draft combines 75 invitees, there will be some more that make their way up from the G League night combine. But he is one of those 75. Now it doesn't guarantee that you're drafted player because that's 75 players. Let's say it's 80 with the G League guys.

Starting point is 00:02:01 There are only 60 draft spots, right? And beyond that, sometimes guys go to the combine and NBA teams, you know, sometimes NBA teams like are going to take a guy who's in the G League combine above a guy who's in the NBA combine, but they don't want him getting up to the NBA combine. So like, because it's based on like, you know, votes and rankings and stuff from, you know, Scouts and GMs and stuff like that, because they they feel like they have a good secret on a guy and they're like, we don't want other teams see how good he is. So even though he's in the G League combat, I would take him above him. So it's not as easy to say is, you know, oh, that means he's really close to being drafted. Maybe, maybe not. But in the case of Lewis, I've seen him

Starting point is 00:02:42 a little bit lower on draft rankings than like Darian Williams. So maybe the chances of him going pro is a little bit less. Maybe that makes it more of a possibility. It feels like there has been some noise with KU and Lewis, but it feels like there's been less noise than say Darian Williams in Kansas versus Lewis in Kansas. And to me, that makes sense. We're going to get into why specifically, but to me me I do like Williams a little bit more than Lewis though They are kind of similar in a couple ways. So let's get into it Lewis a 6 foot 7 215 pound wing you can play him at the three or the four position He'll be a senior this upcoming season again UMass then st. John's and now in the portal again

Starting point is 00:03:22 18.2 points per game for st. John's this season. That was the team that won the Big East. They won over 30 games this season, made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Got a two seed. They also a 7.2 rebounds per game. So good rebounding numbers there. Obviously very good production enough to win the East player of the year. Two assists per game, 1.4 steals per game, 0.6 blocks per game.

Starting point is 00:03:43 Shot almost 44% from the floor, shot 33.6% from three on almost four attempts per game, just about 75% at the foul line and over five free throw attempts per game. The overall effective field goal percentage 48.3, a little bit on the lower half there, same with the true shooting percentage 52.5%. But again, it's one of those guys where it's like it's below average, but then you take into account volume and it becomes a little bit more impressive but the team was and again this was a very good team in St. John's this year they were 10.6 points per game better per 100 possessions when he was on the floor on the

Starting point is 00:04:20 offensive end of the court overall they were about 12 and a half points better per 100 possessions when he was on the floor. So about two points better defensively, almost 11 points better on the offensive end of the floor. And he also had a Torvik transfer rating of 3.7. Pretty much most of the lists, anywhere you look that you're gonna find this kid, he's gonna pop up on, you know,

Starting point is 00:04:42 one of the best available transfer portal targets. At this point, you look at his top strengths. This is another one of those KU targets, whether it's players they've already brought in or other players that we've talked about in the deep dives and target section. That is a lengthy player that is somebody who has size that is somebody who has athleticism. And you look at the Kansas team, they're they're they're not building a team of like gargantuan six foot 10,

Starting point is 00:05:07 seven footers and stuff. They're building a team that has good positional size, though, and really every position and you could say, okay, Flory's a little more undersized for center, but the wingspan makes up for it because Flory's wingspan of seven two is bigger than some centers who are 611 or seven feet tall, right. And so that's kind of how you look at it. They'd have this versatile lineup, good athlete. He's also a very good rebounder. And so if you do wonder, okay, or if you're, you know, kind of

Starting point is 00:05:34 thinking, hey, it'd be nice to have another wing in there who can be a good rebounder, Trey White's a good rebounder, but it'd be nice to have another one to work off of flurry, especially because there's not right now a ton of big man depth for KU, it'd be nice to have more rebounding from the wings. Well, Lewis fits that billing 93rd percentile offensive rebound rate for his position, which helps him lead to a ranking in the 99th percentile and second chance points per 40 minutes, but also 93rd

Starting point is 00:06:01 percentile defensive rebound rates and 93rd percentile offensive and defensive rebound rate. Very good rebounder, especially for his position. If you had a team with Lewis, White and Flory, that would be one of the best rebounding teams in the country. You would have a bunch of rebounding ability right there. Defense, I think is a strength for him with Lewis. I mean, St. John's was the best defense in the country, or I should say one of them, I guess it depends where you look. I think entering the NCAA tournament, they were the number one defense on Ken Palm. I think Houston finished there after their tournament run. I could be wrong on that,

Starting point is 00:06:33 but either way, St. John's was in the running. They finished number two in the country in defensive efficiency on Ken Palm. He was obviously a big part of that. 89th percentile for his position in block rate. So it's active there. 72nd percentile in steel rates. Some of that is a little manufactured and now Rick Patino plays defense where they're, you know, pressing at times and they're playing full court man to man defense. But like overall, that means an 88th percentile Hakeem rate. And what is even more impressive to me is that this isn't the guy who's just racking up blocks and steals, but he's hacking other guys.

Starting point is 00:07:08 87th percentile for personal foul efficiency. That basically means the rate of blocks plus steals you get for every time you foul. So it's like, you know, some guys are really good shop blockers, the centers, but they also foul a lot, right? And so you're not going to have good, you know, block per foul efficiency, not the case with Lewis, he's getting blocks and seals and he's avoiding fouls and doing so. So good defender on a good defensive team. He also gets the free throw line 67th percentile. So solid in free throw attempt rate. But what's interesting to me is the

Starting point is 00:07:36 teams on off rating for free throw attempt rate goes up a huge amount when he was out there. So the individual number of 67th percentile doesn't do justice, just how much he changed the team's ability to get to free throw line when he was out there. And that would be something kids would hope for. He also scores on the interior well 97th percentile in paint points per 40 minutes. He shot 63.4% within four and a half feet of the rim, which was in the 69th percentile there. I think just overall impact is a strength here. I mean, again, he was the best player on a team. Those basically the best team in their conference was a two seed that won 31 games.

Starting point is 00:08:13 The team overall was 12 and a half points better per 100 who's on the floor. Better on offense, better on defense. They shot an effective field goal percentage, almost two percentage points higher when he was on the floor. They had a three percent higher offensive rebound rate when he was on the floor. They turned it points higher when he was on the floor, they had a 3% higher offensive rebound rate when he was on the floor, they turned it over less when he was on the floor, they got to the free throw line about 5% more often when he was out there, they also forced a higher turnover rate and fouled less. They're better like everything when he was on the floor. So this is a very impactful player.

Starting point is 00:08:40 Now what are the questions surrounding him? Like I said earlier, he's not the most inefficient player in the country, but he's not an efficient one either. And as I've kind of talked about that is sometimes the load you bear as the top player on a team, especially in the case of St. John's, which even though they were a great defensive team, they were outside the top 60 on the offensive end. And so you end up with a team who couldn't shoot threes well, didn't space the floor well, and you had to be the top option and take the tough shots in the half court. Most of St. John's proficiency on offense was doing in transition or getting it, you know, off a turnover and

Starting point is 00:09:16 scoring easier there in the half court, he kind of had to be the guy they didn't have a lot of options. And I've done this before where we compare like players efficiency numbers to Jalen Wilson, his last year Kansas when Wilson was a first team All-American in the sense of, okay, again, like, it's not as simple to say like, Oh, you know, your numbers aren't as good. Because if you are the top option, and you have some of those things going against him

Starting point is 00:09:42 that I just mentioned, it's going to lower your efficiency numbers. And so what did we mention? We said almost 44% for Lewis. Well, Wilson was 43% his last year at Kansas. Lewis was 33 and a half percent basically on threes. Wilson was 33.7% on a little bit more volume than Lewis. Five and a half free throw attempts for game and almost 80% for him. Lewis was a little lower in percentage in the mid seventies, but the free throw attempt rate is very similar. And rebound a little bit better for Wilson, but Lewis stacks up similar in the rebound assist

Starting point is 00:10:11 and block column, and then Lewis gets you more steals per game. So there are some comps there, and I think some similarities that you can make just in terms of the output there. But again, the big difference is that Lewis was just 15th percentile in points per possession in isolation.

Starting point is 00:10:26 That number again is lower than it should be because everybody knows the ball is gonna be in his hands on a bad half court offensive team. There's not a lot of spacing. So it's gonna be more difficult, but I do think Wilson was like a better isolation score, I would say, than what Lewis is. But leaning into that specifically,

Starting point is 00:10:42 Lewis is not the best shooter, But again, he's not bad. He's 15th percentile for his position in three point attempt rate, but 54th percentile in three point percentage, just slightly above average in percentage, but a bit lower volume there, although that's comparing him to maybe more guards. If you view him as more of a four, the three point attempt rate looks a little bit better. Also just 27th percentile in points per possession in off the dribble shooting, so that wasn't great. He was 68th percentile though out of spot ups if you're wondering how you play off ball. He did shoot poorly from the corner, good above the break. He also weirdly

Starting point is 00:11:16 enough shot better from threes of 25 plus feet, almost 35% on 25 plus foot threes than short threes where he shot 33.3%. Does that mean that he's better than the number show? Like I would almost view it as like if you were really good from deep threes, that almost shows that like you are a pure shooter. So like are you actually better than the numbers are showing and you're going to have an even better edition? Maybe he doesn't need the ball in his hands. That's something to keep an eye on.

Starting point is 00:11:43 Obviously you're going to want Peterson with the ball in his hands. That's something to keep an eye on. Obviously you're going to want Peterson ball in his hands, council, so forth. But 96% of usage rate, 26 percentile assisted turnover rate. You can get away, I think, with him and Darren Peterson being dominant on ball. But I don't think it would leave much room for others as far as on ball roll. So I think it would be OK. But it's just not as easy of a fit as Darian Williams, who's also a very good

Starting point is 00:12:08 passer and can play off ball, I think a little bit more consistently. I think Williams better offensive player than Lewis more efficient offensive player better shooter. I think Lewis you're getting more defense, more athleticism, more rebounding than you are with Williams, but it is a fun conversation. So how exactly would you know, RJ Lewis fit in with KU? What would his role possibly be? We'll get to that next. Today's episode of the show is brought to you by Upwork. Scaling

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Starting point is 00:13:31 of the latest news, some assistant coaching news, some KU football news, TBT news. But first, how would RJ Lewis fit in with KU? So first of all, what would he add to the team? I think you can make an argument. I think Kansas is going to probably have a pretty good defense next year. At this point in time, regardless, because I think you can make an argument. I think Kansas is going to probably have a pretty good defense next year at this point in time regardless, because I think Flory is going to be an elite rim protector. I think Peterson is, I mean, there's no reason Peterson with his, his athleticism length can't be a good defender for you, right? Even though he will be a freshman and a lot of times you see off ball mistakes more so for freshmen, but I still think he'll be a good defender. I think council is a very good defender.

Starting point is 00:14:07 I think Dawson's a good defender. I got missing got Troy whites like the, you know, I think it'll be at least a solid defender based on his abilities and stuff. Like obviously I'm not going to go through the whole roster now. And Marco is a good defender. Anyway, point being, I think Kansas has a good defensive team. You add R.J. Lewis who is a good defender and gives them even more size and versatility

Starting point is 00:14:26 and athleticism and defensive rebounding and blocking shots and getting seals. You can have a case that Kansas is the best defensive team in the country. Now, it's hard because like Houston systematically and what they have, we're kind of waiting to see who they have back and stuff like that. But, you know, Javier Francis is graduating and and Juan Roberts is graduating. So we'll see what happens there. Milo Suzan is like testing the draft process like there's a chance Kansas could be in the running for at least one of the five best defenses in the country. And if

Starting point is 00:14:57 you add him, it feels even more likely right now maybe they're one of the 10 best or something like that. I don't know. It also adds more rebounding to Dean, the defensive rebounding and the offensive rebounding. Like I said, a lineup with Lewis and White and Flory is one of the best rebounding teams in the country. Both offensive and defensive rebounding. That's the beauty of all three of those players. They would be very good at that.

Starting point is 00:15:18 It also gives you flexibility, I think, of having, because right now you look at the KU roster, they don't have like a ton of options to play the four it's like Trey white plays the four. You can play some Bryson tiller at the four. And then it's like who else do you feel comfortable kind of sliding down to play that role I guess Samiz Calderon would be somebody but I don't know how he seems like more of a raw prospect that might take a little bit more development

Starting point is 00:15:44 there. Lewis would give you the opportunity that between Lewis and white, you have two wings who can play the four and do it reasonably. Also gives you more ability to get to the free throw line. That was something Kansas was not very good at this season. Lewis would help there. Also gives you more slashing ability and even more athleticism. And I think Kansas would have a lot of good slashers, counsel, the ability to drive to the rim with his speed and athleticism. Peterson, just because he's good at everything. So he would fit into that.

Starting point is 00:16:10 Marco Jackson, the idea of him is being able to slash to the rim. I think Trey White ideally could, you know, give you at least a little bit, some of that on this year's team. So it would just give you even more of that, that you would have that ability. Would you have enough spacing

Starting point is 00:16:24 to fully take advantage of it? That kind of remains to be seen, but it would give you more more of that that you would have that ability Would you have enough spacing to fully take advantage of it that kind of remains to be seen? but it would give you more players that can do it and it would just give you another player who can put the ball in his Hands and I try to go get you a bucket now what it wouldn't solve Would be the shooting in the floor space and then again Lewis is not a bad three-point shooter. He's an above-average average three-point shooter It's just are you at a point right now with your roster build where you need more than just an average shooter? Right? Do you need a good shooter? Do you need a great shooter to kind of add? Now what's interesting if you make

Starting point is 00:16:54 that, you know, made the comparison with with Darian Williams, who I think I'd prefer Williams, but again, I'd still be very ecstatic with RJ Lewis. I think it's an interesting comparison if you compare it to Dame Sar because Sar is more of this prototype, a player who is a wing, who is very athletic. And now Sar did shoot like over 40% from three this past season, but it's very small volume. And so that one is one of those where it's like, you don't know you could get 38% from three from SAR you could get 28% from three from SAR that kind of is a mystery. So that would be kind of an interesting comparison between the two there. I think SAR maybe has a little bit more speed than Lewis. Lewis may be more proven at the collegiate level, maybe more ability to show the rebounding and, you

Starting point is 00:17:43 know, produce again at this level, but it wouldn't solve that. It also wouldn't solve KU's backup big man problem, but that's not going to be solved by this edition regardless. How he fit in, I think he'd obviously be a starter. To me, he'd be the second best player on the team with Peterson and him. And then Flory would be right there as well. I think he'd start on the wing with Trey White. I don't think it would really matter which one you viewed

Starting point is 00:18:08 as the four and which you viewed as the three. I think they'd be pretty interchangeable. I guess you get a little bit more shooting in terms of volume from Lewis than White. So maybe Lewis offensively is the three and you know, White is the four, but defensively, it doesn't really matter that much. I think he would have the ball in his hands,

Starting point is 00:18:23 the second most on the team. I think it'd be Peterson followed by him and then probably followed by council at that point in time for the ball in their hands the most. On KU, you could run some three five or even four five pick and roll actions again, depending if he's the three or the four with him and Flory, because both get downhill at a high level. And in those situations, you can use Peterson, you know, if you need to get him a different look, get him the ball off ball or give him a little bit of break running on ball, you could run that kind of pick and roll action with with him and Flory and have Peterson spacing floor on the

Starting point is 00:18:56 outside. And so I think the big question for me here is if Kansas does make this addition, does it force them to reconsider? Like from a backup big perspective, are you looking for a backup big who can at least shoot threes a little bit to have that option with you? Does it make you look more into, you know, the, if you're adding one more role player besides a backup big and this guy, it has to be like one of the best three point shooters in the portal at that point. I think that's probably kind of the case and it would make shooting even more important over the

Starting point is 00:19:29 last couple of editions. But like I said, I mean, there's no guarantee that Lewis is going to be a worsting point shooter than Dom-E-Sarr would be. So this would definitely be a take for me. And I view it, you know, in the same way I've thought more about this, I think I would still view like Darien Williams is my number one, I think I have Dom May Sauer number two, RJ Lewis would be number three, but I think you could really interchange any of those. And I think all of them are close enough to me that if any of them are ready to commit right now, even if you're going, yeah, I

Starting point is 00:20:00 think I'd rather have Williams than Lewis, which I would, it's still close enough to me. And because you don't want to be left in a situation where if it is close enough and then the guy you wanted more ends up staying in the NBA draft or picking a different school. I would just say if R.J. Lewis wants to pick KU right now, you take the commitment and you move on from there and be happy with getting the former Big East player of the year. But again, in a perfect world where you have the decision from all

Starting point is 00:20:26 three guys at the same time, yeah, I'd probably take Williams. And again, the SAR one is tough because it's a little bit more like SARs the potential. It could be anything. He could be Big East player of the year, right? Or Big 12 player of the year, right? In this situation with RJ Lewis. So kind of an interesting debate there. But I do think those three players are in a tier above like that next year of players, which would be I don't know, like Jameer Watkins, and then probably another tier

Starting point is 00:20:52 to like Desmond Claude or something like that. I'd have to see all the players in front of me to fully cheer that out. But yeah, there you go. All right. Latest news. Chuck Vaughn, KU assistant, we'll discuss that next on Lockdown Jayhawks. This episode of the show is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook, the NBA Playoff's are in full swing and every night delivers highlight worthy performances. I mean, if you just saw Monday night with the Nuggets comeback with the Knicks comeback, crazy chemist moments, whether it's game winning shot or breakout player, there's never been a better time to get in on the action. FanDuel makes it easy to stay in the game before tip-off and live. With player props,

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Starting point is 00:22:30 we talked about, I mean, thank you to Everdares if you already caught it, if you didn't, go out and check it out. The Norm Roberts retiring episode, we talked about possible replacement assistant coaches. And one of the names we did bring up was Jacques Vaughn. And we weren't totally sure, like, would he actually entertain that he's former like NBA head coach, you know, would he be willing to be an assistant coach at the collegiate level? And maybe from his perspective, you know, he'd be interested in Hey, can I get my foot in the door? And if I do well enough in this specific

Starting point is 00:22:59 role, do I have a shot at a head coach and waiting thing or maybe he's just because he didn't have a job this past year got let go by the nets the previous year, you know, just sat out of? Or maybe he's just eating and have a job this past year, got let go by the nets the previous year, just sat out a year, maybe he's like, yeah, I just want to work and I'll just take a year or two of an assistant coach here and then we'll see what jobs lie from there.

Starting point is 00:23:14 I do find it interesting though, I've always heard that the KU Athletic Department very much would consider him for the head coaching job when Bill Self does retire and thinks of him very highly, which obviously makes sense. He's been a head coach in the NBA. And even though, you know, it hasn't been the most successful in the NBA, he still was head coach in the NBA. And I think about it this way, you look at the success BYU had in first year with Kevin Young, he

Starting point is 00:23:37 was an assistant coach at the NBA level, Utah just hired a coach from the NBA level, this is going to become more popular where schools are doing this, I think for a couple of reasons. One, there are some really smart head coaches on NBA benches, right? And even if you are a head coach, the thing about getting fired from an NBA job is sometimes it's not about that,

Starting point is 00:23:59 oh, you just didn't know basketball sometimes, it's just that the roster let you down or that you started to sell. Kevin Durant asked for a trade which is what happened to the Nets right now there is the worry that like Mike Woodson that did not work there also is a worry if you were to do the head coach and waiting thing that has backfired on teams all the time all the time the positive of it would be hey

Starting point is 00:24:19 if you want you know Jock Lawn to be the and I'm jumping a level there's difference between assistant coach and head coach and waiting from assistant coach level, it would be a home run, right? A former NBA coach, head coach as an assistant coach, that would be a home run for kids plus everybody likes jock lawn sees the game cerebrally, that would be a home run. It's a different conversation with head coach and waiting. Like I said, I would rather go externally, you don't have to get somebody

Starting point is 00:24:43 with Kansas ties, go out and get an eight oats, go out and get a, you know, whoever Tommy lawyer, whatever Todd Gold, whatever, go out and get those guys. But from an internal coach hire, and if you are gonna keep it in the Kansas bloodline, he probably does make about as much sense as anybody because of the fact that, okay, he does have NBA head coaching experience.

Starting point is 00:25:00 Now these college head coaching jobs for a while, it was like, if you're bringing the guy down from the NBA, we sure that's going to work because they're going to have to learn how to recruit and yada yada. With the way things have gone gone now in the transfer portal, everything is like free agency. Everything is money based. It is like you're dealing with Oh, you're dealing with agents and you're dealing with you know, player movement. You're almost better equipped for it. And

Starting point is 00:25:21 you're almost better equipped to be like, Yeah, I know what guy I should hire to be our GM. Because I have these connections to NBA scouts or whatever it is, right? Like you can make it work. And if he's going to play the style of play, he played in college, which was under Roy Williams, which objectively is a very fun style of play. Because that's something I've said to like, you know, it wouldn't hurt either if your next head coach after Bill Self is like, like, do you really want to be playing Tony Bennett slow style of basketball? No, like it's entertainment. You want it to be up and down. And you know, it wouldn't hurt either if your next head coach after Bill Self is like, like, do you really want to be playing Tony Bennett slow style of basketball? No, like it's entertainment. You want it to be up and down. And I don't know, I guess I don't hate it is what I'm saying. If it's the head coach waiting, I'd prefer opening up to elsewhere. But just from an assistant coach

Starting point is 00:25:58 perspective, if this is something that is real, home run as an assistant coach and that goes away, anything we could have that conversation down the line, if that is something that that is real home run as an assistant coach and that go to anything we could have that conversation down the line. If that is something that would be of interest because I think some some pros and cons but just from the assistant coach perspective, if they can get it done would be an absolute home run for KU. Also some other quick news by Job, the former KU defensive end picks Miami of Ohio and that should kind of tell you everything you need to know that

Starting point is 00:26:22 the reason he left wasn't about money or this or that he wanted more playing time and I don't blame a kid, right? He was probably looking at being in a battle for the second string and Kansas was going out to the portal and being active and Trying to bring defense events, which they eventually did they got one from Illinois So he might have been looking at being the third string on the depth chart this year and he wants you playing time So, you know, you understand him doing that and more power to him for, you know, hopefully blows up in the back and then he has a good enough year where, you know, he goes from Miami Ohio to Kansas and that's worked out before where they've brought a productive defense vent from Miami Ohio, right? Anyway, the last thing TBT news, Kansas is going to be doing a TBT team. I am a little bit ashamed how long it took me to figure out.

Starting point is 00:27:06 I was like, why is it called JHX? It took me multiple hours to be like, oh, that's abbreviated for Jayhawks. So anyway, I finally figured that one out. And maybe you were in the same boat as me and I just helped to figure it out, hopefully. Probably not, because you're probably not as dumb as I am. But if you couldn't figure out either, we're not dumb.

Starting point is 00:27:24 We just, we're smarter at other things. No, but they made their first two additions, Gerald Vick and Nick Timberlake. I hope there's some that are, that are, I don't know, a little bit more exciting. I'm sure there will be, I hope Frank Mason's back. It's been fun to watch this team in the past couple years. I don't know that a lot of Kansas fans are chomping

Starting point is 00:27:44 at the bit to be like, we need more Nick Timberlake. Although there are some sickos out there that are probably banging the drum for it. So anyway, that's the latest news there. We'll be back for more Transfer Portal or other KU content coming up on our upcoming shows. Make sure to tune in, subscribe to the show, anywhere you get your podcast.

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