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Starting point is 00:00:00 KU has reportedly shown interest in Jarvis Moss, a transfer guard from Radford, before that from Stanford. How would he fit in with KU if he deep dives into this transfer portal target? 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 every day is catching each and every episode of the show. We are free and available anywhere you get your podcast including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the

Starting point is 00:00:42 show. And on today's edition of Locked On Jayhawks, we're breaking down another transfer portal target with Jarvis Moss. As we've kind of gone through some of these different guards that could possibly fill in for that diggy coit role on last year's team for this year's Kansas team, Jarvis Moss becomes another one that Kansas has reportedly shown interest in the same way that we talked about John Buggs on a recent episode. Smajh Tealal as well check out those episodes if if you're never there. Thank you. If you already did so we in this scouting report with KU and some of the latest news as well going on with KU basketball and KU athletics.

Starting point is 00:01:16 Today's episode of the show is brought to you by Fandool Sportsbook right now new customers can get $200 and bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. That's at FanDuel.com. So Jarvis Moss. Well, let's start here. Why are we talking about him? This is according to the Portal Report, which is a popular social media account that a lot of different transfers reach out to DM with and they help compile

Starting point is 00:01:41 graphics lists similar to like a tip that edits right. They reported a couple of weeks ago that Jarvis Moss has received interest from and there's a long list of schools Ohio State St. John's Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Kansas, and the list goes on and on and on with some of the schools that are interested there. And again, I should just record a disclaimer that we talk about this all the time that like, you know, that how accurate is it that this school is on the list and that that

Starting point is 00:02:09 school is on the list? I don't know. But Moss started his career at Stanford, which tells you that this somebody who at one point or another at one point in time, or I guess, at least from a physical standpoint, was good enough to be at a power five school. And that, you know, can be important as you're talking about the translation up now he didn't have a ton of success at Stanford so does that tell you that he can't cut it or was it just he was there when he was younger and now he's a better player because he's gotten

Starting point is 00:02:34 older and players get better when they get older but Moss was started at Stanford then he goes to Davidson again doesn't play much in Davidson either and then he transfers down again in league to Radford, where he has a breakout season this past season for Radford. He's a six foot four 200 pound shooting guard. So he's got a pretty good size for a shooting guard at the collegiate level. He'll be a redshirt senior this upcoming season for whatever school he attends, averaged 13 and a half points per game at Radford two

Starting point is 00:03:04 and a half rebounds,.9 assists one steal and zero blocks per game shot just a hair under 42% from the floor which is a little lower than you like to see there but the three point percentage is good 37.6% on three point shots this past season at Radford that's a solid number there and he did it on very high volume six and a half attempts per game from a three-point range also a very good free throw shooter 84.2 percent at the free throw line and did that taking just about three free throw attempts per game overall the effective

Starting point is 00:03:36 field goal percentage at 53 the true shooting percentage of 57 and a half both those are good and the on-off numbers were fantastic for Jarvis Moss at Radford. Overall per 100 possessions, Radford was over eight points better on the offensive end of the floor when he was out there. They were almost nine points better on the defensive end of the floor per 100 when he was out there.

Starting point is 00:03:57 So total it up. The team was basically 17 points per 100 possessions better overall when he was out on the floor. So a very impactful player for Radford this past season. 18 points per 100 possessions better overall when he was out on the floor. A very impactful player for Radford this past season. We get into his strengths, we get into the questions about his game, and I think one of the strengths has to be shooting. As Kansas is looking to kind of fill this role, as we've talked about with those other

Starting point is 00:04:18 guards of John Bugs, I think Bugs, the best three-point shooter, if you're comparing Teal, Moss, and Bugs, I think Moss would probably second among the three- point shooter. If you're comparing Teal, Moss and Bugs, I think Moss would probably second among the three point shooters. Teal would be third. Teal is a better driver than probably both of those guys. Right? I mean, the defense, maybe that would be in Moss's favor. We'll get into that in a second here,

Starting point is 00:04:35 but the shooting still is a strength for Jarvis Moss. 81st percentile in free throw shooting, again, shooting almost 85% at the free throw line. So very good free throw shooting numbers there. 79th percentile, three point attempt rate. So he's getting them up at a high volume and he is, you know, in a situation where if you're shooting more threes,

Starting point is 00:04:54 it's gonna be more difficult to make them at a high clip because just the more you take, the more the defense is gonna focus on you. 33 and a half percent on above the break threes. So that's slightly above average nationally there. He was a leap from the corner though 48.4% from the sides. And I think that's important because when you look at both selfs offense and when you look at, you know, for instance, a lot of the spot up threes that maybe AJ store ended up taking for this past team or a lot of the spot threes that

Starting point is 00:05:19 Nick Timberlake was given an opportunity for that Isaiah Moscott when he was at Kansas, their corner threes and their threes that are right at that edge of the kind of wing corner area. And if you're looking at best three point shooters for that, for somebody who's just going to play a role of coming in being a spot up corner three point shooter, they have to be able to make them from the corner. And Moss did that at a high rate, 48.4% from the sides this past season. He also shot 37.7%, so basically 38% on three balls of 25 or more feet. Again, that's how CBB analytics defines deep threes.

Starting point is 00:05:55 So on deep threes, he was almost 38%. That's very good. That's 74th percentile nationally on two deep tries per game. We mentioned on yesterday's episode again, thank you to every dayers, if you already caught it, talking with John Bugs III, who I think is the best, you know, shooting player available, I guess,

Starting point is 00:06:14 in the portal at this point for Kansas. But Oja Iqbalji shot 40% on two deep threes per game, his final season at Kansas. So it would moss 38% on two deep threes per game this past season. Kansas. So with Moss 38% on two deep threes per game this past season, obviously, you know, worst competition with Radford, but still. Overall 74th percentile true shooting percentage for Jarvis Moss.

Starting point is 00:06:32 So efficient player, efficient score. Not a ton of volume at the rim either, but I should say this is another strength of his game. I guess you would view it as, I don't know if you view it as like he's good at cutting or he's good at picking and choosing the spots or using the gravity that his three point shooting provides to get easy twos, but he shot 71% at the rim. It's lower volume, one and a half attempts per game. But what that tells me is that he was very good at again, either cutting to the rim,

Starting point is 00:07:02 getting wide open layups or having teams if, hey, if you're going to face guard me, if you're going to get up in my grill on the offense vent, I'm going to back cut you and get a wide open layup because of it. And having that instinct, having that ability, I think is a good counter for what you provide. If you are a shooter, you want to have one extra element to make it a little tougher to guard you.

Starting point is 00:07:21 It also has low turnover numbers, 71st percentile turnover rates. So you don't have to worry about him being a turnover problem, because if he's not gonna be the star of the team, you don't want him being a source of turnovers, right? He can also score in fast break, 72nd percentile in fast break points per 40 minutes,

Starting point is 00:07:37 and he had solid size too, right? I mean, as we go up and down the KU lineup, they don't have many diggy quites, they don't have many five eight, five nine, five 10 guys, they don't have them,gy coits. They don't have many five, eight, five, nine, five, 10 guys. They don't have them, right? So Jarvis Moss would continue having, you know, positional size if you're KU. He'd be one of the shorter guys on the team actually at six foot four, but that's a good place to be

Starting point is 00:07:54 if the shorter guys on your team are six foot four. Now I will put this one before I get to the questions. This is kind of in the middle here. Not exactly sure what to think. What is his level of defense? I think he's better than again, we had the deep dives on bugs and teal. And thank you, if you already got him. If you haven't go back and check them out. I think he's better on defense than both of those guys. But I still don't

Starting point is 00:08:18 know that I view him as like a plus defender either. 30th percentile Hakeem rate, 63rd percentile defensive RAPM, so that's above average there, 27th percentile defensive wind shares, and then 90th percentile Adolf D rating. So that's actually interesting because you go back and forth. The Hakeem rate, the ability to get blocks and steals

Starting point is 00:08:37 is not that good. The defensive RAPM, solid. The defensive wind shares, not very good. The Adolf D rating, very good, right? So you go back and forth with all of these things. You have this idea of he's a 6'4 guard playing at Radford when he started his career at Stanford. Maybe he's just bigger than those guys and able to be a good defender. I don't know what to think of him on the defensive end to be completely honest, but I do feel better about him on the defensive end than

Starting point is 00:09:02 Bugs and Teal. So if you're talking about who's the best shooter of the month, like I said earlier, I'm taking Bugs. But if you're talking who's the best defender, I'm taking Moss. And Moss also has the best size of the three. Now again, Teal is the best driver and maybe the best ball handler of the three. So it kind of depends what you're going for among these three. Now, one of the questions here, Moss is not somebody who provides anything rebounding the basketball. But again, in this specific role, I don't know that that's that important anyway. Also the other big question here

Starting point is 00:09:32 that I do have is the jump in competition. And that's something that does apply for, you know, Samajetil and Bugs as well, that they would be making a sizable jump in competition. But I bring it up even more so at Jarvis Moss because there's a sample where it hasn't always looked so good. So he played just 34 combined games in his two years at Stanford, plus one at Davidson's that's three seasons of being either in the Atlantic 10 or the Pac 12

Starting point is 00:09:56 and only played 34 combined games is part of that was he injured at some point, I don't entirely know, but it came in low minutes, which kind of suggests he was never really part of the rotation at those bigger schools. His true shooting percentage was eight percentage points lower in the seven games he played against Ken Palm top 100 teams, and then it was for the full season and the three point percentage fell from what was around 37% to in those games against Ken Palm top 100 teams to 33%.

Starting point is 00:10:26 So you're talking the sizeable jump there. Is that something where, again, the seven games is still a relatively small sample size. It also, as I've said before, like if you're the top option or one of the top options on a bad team and you go to a good team, you're not getting defended by the best player on a better team now. So maybe that

Starting point is 00:10:45 actually helps you in some way. So it's kind of the question of like, did he have his best season, statistically and just overall, did he have his best season because he dropped in competition, and he found a level of competition where he was able to play to where if you move him back up in competition and ain't gonna work? Or did he have his best season because he just happened to, you know, guys, as I said earlier, guys, as they get older, get better at basketball, and guys, the longer they stay in college, they're going to

Starting point is 00:11:13 improve at things, they're going to get better at basketball. And so did he just happen to find his breakout season and find the recipe for success that he needs, while also being at a lower level to where even if he does jump up in level, he found what he needs, while also being at a lower level to where even if he does jump up in level, he found what he needs to be more successful once he goes back up to that level. That kind of is the question that you'd be answering by trying to bring him aboard. So how exactly would he fit in with the team? Plus the latest news, we get to all that more next with Locked on J-Hawks. This episode of the show is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook, the NBA Playoff Star

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Starting point is 00:12:55 both of them every day. Okay, how exactly would Jarvis Moss fit in with KU? So what he would add to the team, I mean, obviously, as we've been talking about all these guys, if you're looking to add another kind of bench guard, somebody fill that Diggy Coy, Jalen Coleman-Lands roll, you want them to add shooting to the team. And that is one of the questions we have for this Kansas team. Do they have enough shooting? And can you get a little bit more? And so Jarvis Moss fits that billing, he would add more shooting to the team. So it makes sense that Kansas has shown some sort of interest in it, right? I think maybe this is maybe this is over reading into

Starting point is 00:13:30 the fact that he was at Stanford, but he seems to be a smart player. And it's not just the fact that he was at Stanford for two years. I mean, honestly, that should be enough to be like, okay, you're probably pretty smart. But I see a smart level of basketball. You're a player as low turnover numbers. You're a player who cuts well off ball. You're a player who can take the open shot at the rim or shoot a three seems to be a I don't know, a smart or just common

Starting point is 00:14:00 sense level player on the basketball court. And that is a good thing for anybody's game, especially if you're trying to fit onto a team. Every team is going to accept players who can fit in and have that that right kind of mentality and are smart players, right? You're going to find your way on the floor and you're going to stay on the floor. If you're not making boneheaded plays. I think continued size, he would continue at it with the team. As I said earlier, he'd be one of the

Starting point is 00:14:23 shorter guys on the team, but. He that would be a plus again if we compare it to the diggie koi role, diggie koi what 575859. That's a big difference between having a 64 guy playing that specific role. What he wouldn't add to the team. I mean, he doesn't give KU more rebounding.

Starting point is 00:14:39 It wouldn't give KU obviously another star, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about, you know, recruiting for a role player. It wouldn't add KU obviously another star, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about recruiting for a role player. It wouldn't add a ton more defense or high athleticism to the team necessarily. I don't think it'd be like a negative, but again, those are all things that KU has done so well recruiting to this point,

Starting point is 00:14:56 they kind of need to zag to the zig, so to speak. Like you need more three-point shooting to balance all of that other athleticism and length and defense that you kind of have already on the roster. So yeah, as far as how we fit into the team, I think it is that diggie coy, Jalen Coleman lands roll, right? It's it's the guy who is the eighth or ninth man is shooting three point shots, if they're going in, he's gonna play more if they're not, he's not gonna play as much that

Starting point is 00:15:23 specific game. And that's kind of the idea there. And, you know, you could play him at the two or the three if you needed to, right, if you wanted to play a bit of a smaller lineup, I say smaller where Darren Peterson is the point guard, because he's big for a point guard. But where you had like Darren Peterson and Marco Jackson or Melvin Council, and then you had him at the three, and you kind of rotate him and Jaden Dawson as being your shooter on the outside, or you can maybe even play lineups where they're together,

Starting point is 00:15:48 one's at two and one's at three. Just gives you more options than another player who could kind of hit threes off the bench, and another option at like, what if Jayden Dawson's having a bad three-point shooting game, who else do you turn to if you're Kansas to be like, okay, can you make some threes for us? Like maybe it's Darren Peterson,

Starting point is 00:16:02 but you're already asking so much of Darren Peterson that it's like, do you want him to have to be like, okay, can you make some resource? Like maybe it's Darren Peterson, but you're already asking so much of Darren Peterson that it's like, do you want him to have to be your best three point shooter and your best at all of these other things? And maybe he's just so good that he will be naturally, but like you need more guys than one that you can rely on being good three point shooters. Cause right now I, you know, like there are certain guys

Starting point is 00:16:24 where it's like, okay, Trey White's going to be at least a coefficient enough three point shooter, you know, but it's going to be on low volume. You need enough guys who can come in and shoot 35, 36, 37% from three on, you know, a handful of attempts per game. And he would kind of fit in with that with Jarvis Moss. Now, if we are comparing to those other guys we talked about earlier this week with Samaj Jatil and John Buggs, I think Buggs is still my favorite. Even though Moss gives you,

Starting point is 00:16:53 I think maybe even more defense than Buggs, I just love the fact that Buggs is so elite at the shooting that that would be such a strong skill for KU to add, specifically for what they need. So I think I'd go Bugs as the top. I think I'd go Moss as second. Even though Teal, I think, like you can argue Teal is a better player in a vacuum than Moss. If we're just talking fit, I think Moss fits the 3-and-D a little bit more than Teal. That kind of makes sense. But honestly, I'd be fine with any of those three in that specific role. And I

Starting point is 00:17:25 think all of them could excel at it to what you would need them to do and fitting in with the team. But you know, it just kind of depends what you want to do. All right, let's finish up latest news. Some interesting NBA draft combine measurements, and a little KU women's basketball talk. Thanks for joining us here on locked on Jayhawks and thanks for making us here. First listen every day. So NBA combine is currently going on, I believe it ends on May 8 tooth, which would be I think Sunday, Saturday or Sunday of this week. So that'll

Starting point is 00:18:01 probably give us a better idea about some of the players that are still in the portal, you know, whether it's Darian Williams, RJ Lewis, to mere Watkins, those are kind of the main ones for KU that are they going to come back to college? What score are they going to pick to transfer to if they do come back to college? It won't be fully complete because the deadline for them officially haven't make that decision isn't for a couple weeks. It's like

Starting point is 00:18:23 the end of May, I think it's May 28th. But they'll have a much better idea after that. There's so many NBA teams there. How are you going to test? How are you going to measure? How are you going to play? If you're playing in the scrimmages, they'll have a much better idea of what they should do. You know, where are you being expected in the draft? Do you have any promises? Right. How does that relate to what area you could get picked?

Starting point is 00:18:44 How much money you would get versus how much money you would get in an IL to come back to school. So I think we're going to start to get maybe more clear picture on the roster in about a week. At least that's the hope here. Maybe it'll be even sooner than that, right? But certainly by the end of May, you would think that would be the case. So as far as some of those players, Jamir Watkins, as we mentioned, he didn't measure, he measured it last year's combine. We went as some of those players, Jameer Watkins, as we mentioned, he didn't measure. He measured at last year's combine.

Starting point is 00:19:06 We went over some of his measurements in his deep dive, which thank you if you already caught that one here. If you haven't, check it out. Talking to Jameer Watkins here with Lockdown Jayhawks. RJ Lewis measured and he measured pretty good. Almost six foot six without shoes, six foot five and three quarters. So I mean, with shoes,

Starting point is 00:19:22 you're talking about him being a legit, you know, six, seven, 210 pounds. He had a six foot 10 and three quarters wingspan. So almost a six 11 wingspan for Lewis and an eight foot seven and a half standing reach. So Lewis measured very well in those areas. Darian Williams, on the other hand, did not measure very well at all. Six foot four and a half without shoes. And, you know, he's somebody who if he's going to be playing the four, which he can in college, six foot four and a half without shoes that puts you closer to six six with shoes 236 pounds only a six

Starting point is 00:19:54 six wingspan. In the NBA, you'd have to play the three and that would still be a small three but he I don't know that he's quick enough or fast enough to play the three. Now, then again, in today's version of the NBA, we have seen smaller be able to get away with things more easily because of versatility and if you can switch and stuff like that. Point being, the six foot six wingspan for Williams would literally be the worst wingspan among any active NBA three or four man small forward or power forward would literally be the worst. So I don't know he was being projected in kind of the early to mid second round. I think that's going to ding him a little bit in a very real way.

Starting point is 00:20:41 He also has just an eight foot five standing reach. Now we know he can be productive at the collegiate level. I wouldn't bet against him in the NBA and everything that he's been able to accomplish and stuff. But point being, you do wonder if that propels him to go back to school in a real way, right? And out of comparison, like we've talked about Dom-A-Sar and the length is kind of so much better for him.

Starting point is 00:21:01 It's even a little bit better than RJ Lewis, but a lot better than Darien Williams. Now Williams obviously has another level of feel another level of offensive game and proven production in college than say Dom Esar has but I do find that interesting what what he measured in as, again, was still good enough to be effective at the collegiate level. So I wouldn't worry about the measurements in terms of from a Kansas perspective,

Starting point is 00:21:24 but it does make you wonder if it sends him back to college for another year. Other news around some of the other sports KU baseball is sitting at 39 and 1417 and 10. And Big 12 play, we mentioned this on a previous episode, but just wanted to reiterate, they're playing West Virginia, if they can sweep West Virginia, but it's on the road, West Virginia is first in the Big 12. They could have a chance to win the big 12 in the regular season, depending on what Arizona State does. But regardless, they're just looking

Starting point is 00:21:53 to, you know, maybe grab a win or two on the road here at the very least at West Virginia. That'll start Thursday at 530, Friday at 530, and then Saturday at noon, all those times, central time, and then it will be the big 12 championship for the big 12 tournament after that. Also for KU women's basketball ESPN released their top 10 recruiting class rankings for NCAA women's basketball. You got LSU, Tennessee, Stanford, South Carolina, North Carolina, Yukon.

Starting point is 00:22:21 Those are the top six teams you're accustomed to seeing there. Number seven is Kansas. And actually number eight is Kansas State. So I guess the in-state basketball must be doing pretty darn good in the state of Kansas and I guess in the surrounding areas and Kansas City and stuff like that for women's basketball. Maybe not talked about enough how good that has been here

Starting point is 00:22:43 in the local area, but Kansas coming in number seven, that makes them the number one big 12th team. It'll be a very pivotal year. Smy Nichols coming into her junior season, you got a really good recruiting class coming in. How ready are they going to be right away? How much can you fill out the roster around them? And can you make it back to the tournament this year? I think that is a very fair expectation. Can you make it back to the NCAA tournament this year and then feel like you've got this crop of young players with, you know, if you make it to the tournament this year, then the following season, you'd have a senior year

Starting point is 00:23:12 semiannichols with all of those young, talented players becoming sophomores. And then you could be like, that could be a really fun season if you can do just that. But I don't know for this episode of Locked on Jayhawks, you can find our show anywhere you get your podcasts, including on our YouTube page. We'll see you next time with Locked on Jayhawks.

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