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Starting point is 00:00:00 Leroy Blyden is an awesome shooter. How will it translate to Kansas after coming over from Toledo? 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 up, Derek Johnson here? Today's episode of Locked on Jayhawks is brought to you by Fandual Sportsbook. The biggest stage in world soccer is here. Let there be goals on Fandual. Visit fandwell.com to get started now.

Starting point is 00:00:35 And on today's episode of the show, we'll finish up with the top five KU football internal improvers that are needed for Kansas to have a successful season. We'll also get into our Leroyd-Blindon player preview, which is where we're going to start. And we start off with a little bit of a trivia question. There's a list of five players, five players in the Bill Self era at Kansas that have made 70 or more threes as an underclassman in a season. and shot 40% or higher from three in the same season. So underclassmen during the Bilsauphelfera, 70 or more made threes, 40% from three that season.

Starting point is 00:01:13 Five players. Leroyd-Blyden did that last year at Toledo. He made 77 threes. He shot like 42% from three-point range. Here's that list of players. Grady Dick as a freshman. Devonte Graham is a sophomore. Ben McElmore is a redshirt freshman.

Starting point is 00:01:28 Brandon Rush did it as a sophomore. And then randomly J.R. Giddens did it as a freshman. But point being, before we get to J.R. Giddens, that is a who's who of Kansas basketball in that list. And so, yes, it's doing it against Mac competition, but that should get you excited about what Leroy Blighton can be. Now, he has a 6'1, 175 pound guard. It might be closer to 5-11, 6-foot. He is a slight of frame, but he had an awesome first year at Toledo. You're talking third team all-MAC selection.

Starting point is 00:01:58 He was the Mac freshman of the year. then he transfers to Kansas this offseason where he's going to be a second year player. And part of the pot five and five, you're now basically bringing in a player who's basically in the old rules like a true freshman because he can give you four years potentially, right, starting this year in 20206 to 2027. When you look at stats at Toledo, 33 minutes per game, you're talking 16.4 points per game. He averaged four rebounds, four and a half assists per game. He had over a two to one assist turnover ratio. He also averaged 1.8 steals per game and 0.3 blocks per game. So I was able to get active on the defensive end of the floor as well.

Starting point is 00:02:35 He's up 46% from the floor, he shot 41% from three, and he was taking over five and a half tries per game. So good volume there. And very good free throw shooter, 85% at the free throw line. And as the season went on, he continued to get better. He was a freshman. So that totally makes sense. But, you know, they had another Allmac guard on their team.

Starting point is 00:02:54 As the season went on and as they were getting later in the year, he kind of went from being the second option of the guards to there were times where he was like the guy at the end of the year. And like that was evident in the Mac tournament when their season is on the line. Like they're in a one big, well, I guess it ended up being a two big two big league this year with Miami of Ohio. But typically a one big league. And for them, they knew they had to win the Mac tournament to make the NCAA tournament. He helps him go to the Mac tournament championship. And during the Mac tournament, he averaged 19 points, five assists, over five rebounds, and over three stocks per game during those three postseason games.

Starting point is 00:03:29 So somebody who steps up in the bigger moments, right? And metrically speaking, really good too. You're talking 90th percentile or higher in winshares per 40 P.E.R and wins above replacement player. Toledo was a much better team when he was on the floor. You're talking over 16 points better per 100 possessions when he was on the floor. He had a 93rd percentile on off net rating. So just a very impactful first season playing in the max.

Starting point is 00:03:56 and you look at the three biggest strengths as we get to the three two one. I mean, shooting has to be the number one. We just brought up that stat to open up about how impressive he was as a shooter. And already doing that as a freshman is really, really impressive. And he was able to shoot off the dribble. He was able to shoot off the catch from three from midrange. He would spot up in transition. He could do it from different areas, like just a really electric three-point shooter.

Starting point is 00:04:21 I mean, speaking of the different areas, which is nice because it allows you to run plays in a lot of different ways. So from the right corner, he was only three of 16 from three. That was by far as worst zone. The four other main zones, so the left corner, the left and right wing and up top, he shot 40% or higher from all four of those zones. So it makes him kind of matchup proof in what you're looking at there, right? And in total, he was in the 82nd percentile or higher in all of three point percentage,

Starting point is 00:04:50 effective field goal, and true shooting. So again, just everywhere you look, this dude is a lot. a knockdown shooter. He even shot 45% on deep threes, which are classified by CBB analytics as 25 feet or longer. So like, can he extend it out? Yes, he absolutely can. And when I'm looking at like how real of a shooter is this guy, a lot of times the two things that I'll look at or, you know, like three point attempts, right? It's one thing to shoot a good percentage if it's low attempts. It's another thing to shoot a really good percentage if it's hypertempts. He checks that box. So I guess it'd be three things here. Free throw shooting. Are you good free throw shooter to indicate you have a good

Starting point is 00:05:27 touch? He's a good free throw shooter checks that box. And the other one are you a good deep three point shooter because if you're carrying it out to that deep, it does signify that you really are a true shooter. And he nails all these, right? He also shot well as the clock was winding down, right, which isn't always clutch shots necessarily, but a lot of times they're the tougher shots. The shot clock's winding down. Your team needs you to bail you out with a late three or late shot. Well, he was in the 72nd percentile nationally in field goal percentage when the shot clock was between zero to 10 seconds. And he did that as a freshman. Now, the second strength you get to here is his quick hands. Other teams are going to target him over the course of this season

Starting point is 00:06:05 when he's on defense, right, because he is slight or frame because he is a smaller guard. But he's feisty. He will fight and he does have quick hands to be able to get some steals. Again, 1.8 steals per game. He was in the 86th percentile for steel rate among guards last season. He was also above average for guards in block rate. Now, I'd imagine he won't be above average at the Big 12 level, but again, he's going to fight you on that end. He's going to use his quick hands to where he is still going to provide some level of impact. It's not just going to be like a negative on the defense event. He's going to provide some impact there for you at the very least. And then the last big strength here is his passing. I think of his scoring and his shooting first, and I do think that is the

Starting point is 00:06:45 biggest part of his game, but like, let's not forget, he averaged four and a half assists per game as a freshman playing with another, you know, older, really good guard at Toledo. So that's a really good number. And also the assist to turnover rate, he was in the 90th percentile in assist to turnover ratio. And again, did that as just a freshman. So that's really impressive and can be really helpful for you. Now, the two biggest question marks here as part of our three, two, one, the lack of size and strength, will it hurt him in the these two areas. So these are two questions, right? Question one, will it hurt him on defense? Like I said, he can still get some steals.

Starting point is 00:07:22 He's still feisty. He's still going to fight on that end. But is it going to be something that becomes more of a problem than you would hope? I would say this. Like, it's interesting because like Zeke Mayo, for instance, really good score shooter for KU was not a very good defender. He had more size of those. Zegmao was like 6'4, but he wasn't as fleet of foot as blight and he wasn't as good at getting steals. So like, would you rather have the guy who's smaller there, but is going to maybe try harder, be more quick and get steals. Or that's it. Like, I think Blighton will at least be better than what Zeke Mayo gave you on the defensive

Starting point is 00:07:53 end of the floor. And if he can provide Zeke Mayo level shooting, which he basically did as a freshman, then, boom, you got something with it anyway, right? But yeah, that will be a real question, especially as the season goes on, especially when you're playing in the big 12 against some of these really physical teams, how will that impact it, right? And speaking of that physicality, I think the second question here is, will it hurt him on drives you know he was in the 65th percentile in shooting at the rim so he's above average to solid

Starting point is 00:08:20 in shooting at the rim but again that was against mac competition now you're going up against the big 12 it's bigger it's stronger it's more athletic and what do we know about the big 12 it's not just those it's that the big 12 is a rugged physical conference that um is at times games feel like wrestling matches right and so does the lack of strength and size does it bother him more where he ends up being a below average two-point shooter and a good three-point shooter, but now teams are able to try to run him off the line to basically say, hey, we're going to let you beat us inside the arc if you possibly can, right? I mean, if we take his opportunities in quad one and quad two games this past season, he actually shot better interestingly enough, but he also took zero shot attempts at the

Starting point is 00:09:02 rim in his game against Michigan State. He took 10 shots against Michigan State. He took zero at the rim. Now, that was an early in the season game for a true freshman. He still scored, you know, 10 points in that game. Michigan State isn't just, you know, oh, you're playing a bigger team. You're playing like Michigan State as a team who clogs the paint, plays multiple bigs, you know, could that have just been your role in that game. Hey, I need to, like my shots are going to come from the outside. He was four for 10 in total in that game. You know, I'm not overly worried about that because again, Michigan State is a good defensive team and is going to be as good if anybody is clogging up the paint with the size that they kind of had.

Starting point is 00:09:39 And that was in his first semester as a true freshman. It's not like he was bad. He just didn't have as good of a game as some of his other games. So I'm not overly concerned about that, but I am concerned a little bit about like, yeah, what is the driving ability going to be? What is kind of the two point efficiency? And one final thought here. I know some people get caught up and thinking about the ones that didn't work.

Starting point is 00:10:03 Right. Like immediately, I think just this human nature. we think of, and you know, I'm guilty of this too, right? You think of all the bad things that have happened to you. You think of all the times you lost or the times that, you know, you went somewhere and something, like I said, bad happened to you. And you don't think about all the good things necessarily, right? Like you could be driving to work and you get a speeding ticket and all day you're going

Starting point is 00:10:28 to be thinking about getting that speeding ticket. And, you know, you might come home and you should be happy that you have a great house over your head and a great meal to eat and, you know, potentially significant other kid and like, you know, all these, all these blessings you have in your life, but you're, you're stuck on the bad thing, right? I think we do that with player additions and transfer portal players with KU because immediately when you think of smaller school or like low majors, mid major, transfer portal additions for Bill South at the guard position, you're like, oh, man, Nick Timberlake didn't work and Jane

Starting point is 00:11:01 and Dawson didn't work. And we tend to do that. we focus on the bad. Like, Zeke Mayo was absolutely a hit for KU. I know his game wasn't perfect on the defensive end and everything, but like if you said you were going to get 15 points per game on 42% from three from Zeke Mayo coming in, you would be like, yeah, I'll take that.

Starting point is 00:11:18 Melvin Council, again, like there were deficiencies in his game, but that absolutely worked for what you were getting for KU. I mean, heck, even like Diggy Coyt from a smaller school, it wasn't like a starting role, but when you first brought him in, you were like, oh, he'll be outside the rotation. He ended up being a rotation player. So like, there are other examples. where it did work. And I do think

Starting point is 00:11:36 Lerobliden's going to work. I think his game is that good. I think his three-point shooting is that good. He also has multiple years. Some of those other guys are one-year players. So I'm in on it. But let's get into the potential floor ceiling outcomes next. This is locked on Jayhawks.

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Starting point is 00:13:10 floor versus ceiling outcome let's start with what would the floor outcome look like uh for leroy blighton here right i think the floor outcome would have to be he's being targeted constantly on the defensive end of the floor he's struggling to hold up size wise whether you're talking two point offense or you're talking defense in general and he's not really much else besides being a shooter which i find hard to believe because he is a good enough ball handler and passer and stuff but that would maybe relegate him to being more of a role guy like is there a world where he ends up being KU's six man just to come in and shoot some threes and can't defend and stuff like that. I mean, if you want to get into like a really low floor moment, we've seen other guys come in

Starting point is 00:13:50 to be shooters for KU. And when the other stuff wasn't there and then the shot stops falling, Bill Self takes you out of the game, you lose confidence and the shot doesn't come around to what your normal shooting percentages are. Like, is that what the floor outcome looks like here for Leroyd-Blyden? Then on the flip side, what are we talking for the ceiling outcome? The ceiling outcome here is he does come in and carries over everything, right? He shoots 40% from three.

Starting point is 00:14:15 He's like leading KU and three point attempts and three point attempts per game. He's one of KU's second or third leading scores. Like I think you would expect Tyron Stokes to lead KU in points. I would have Dawes second in that list. And then I'd probably have Blighton third if I was putting together an odds board, right? But if you told me Bliden was second on the team, I wouldn't bat an eye at it. And then, you know, he provides three to four assists per game on a good assist to turnover ratio. He gets you three or so boards per game. He's getting over a steal per game as

Starting point is 00:14:43 well. And is at least feisty enough on that end to at least be, you know, an average defender overall. And if you're somebody who's doing those things, if Lerra Bladen puts up, you know, 14 points, four assists per game on 40% from three and KU ends up being a successful team, which if he does that, that's going to help KU be a successful team. Like, that's an all big 12 level guy to some degree, you know, whether it's honorable mention, third team, second team just depends kind of on the team success from there. the overall efficiency and everything. But I think that is the ceiling outcome.

Starting point is 00:15:13 Like I do think Leroyd-Blatton is, you know, ceiling season would be coming in and being an all big 12 level player, right? And so what is the predicted expectation for me? Again, it kind of comes in between the floor and ceiling here. I do think I'm closer to the ceiling outcome, though, than I am the floor outcome. Like, I expect him to be a starter all season long for KU. I expect him to be in the top three for KU and points per game, assists per game. and steals per game, you know, maybe even in the top two of those last two, right?

Starting point is 00:15:43 Maybe even in the top two of the points, like I said, while being probably KU's best shooter, you know, I don't know, maybe it's Luke Barnett in theory, but like among the players who for sure in the rotation blight on your best shooter. I'm thinking 37, 38% from three on a good amount of attempts per game. Again, like he made 77 this past season on 41, 42%. Like Darren Peterson, yeah, he missed some games. But Peterson made, I think, 63 this year.

Starting point is 00:16:08 So that should, again, show you how. how good of a shooter this guy is, right? And the fun part of that is that if you do get that, you feel really good about him coming back for another year. Like his lack of size might work against him being able to be an NBA player, but it ain't going to work against him being a good college player who's going to get paid a lot of money over his college career in NIL and RevShare paychecks to, you know, get buckets and get three-point shots. And so I'm really excited what he can bring to the table. Again, I think it's a conversation between him and Keanu Dawes, not just for the second leading score on the team behind Stokes, but also second best player on the team.

Starting point is 00:16:42 I am high on his game translating and him coming over and working out. But yeah, it still is in the back of your mind like, what about the size? What about the translation up from the Mac? What about the defensive side, especially if Bill Self gives him a short leash because of that, right? Now, the impact on KU based on which of those outcomes kind of happens, I don't know. Like, is there a more important player to KU's success this year? Like, obviously, Tyrant Stokes is KU's best player. You know, he's projected to go number one in the NBA draft.

Starting point is 00:17:11 But like, if you don't have enough scores, if you don't have enough shooters and spacing around Tyron Stokes, does it neutralize some of Tyron Stokes best abilities, his driving impact, his driving and dishing, right? Does it allow, if KU doesn't have that other go-to option like a Leroyden and three-point shooters like a Leroyd-Blidon, does it make. makes Stokes easier to defend because other teams can cheat defenders onto him to where he's when he's driving he's almost getting doubled or tripled teams at different points of where he is on angles on the floor right um to where if Blyden is every bit of what I think he can be like that's

Starting point is 00:17:55 going to be some deadly combinations that you can run with Blyden and it's I mean you can even run Stokes as the the screen man and then you basically have Blyden and Stokes in a pick and roll and you have Stokes setting the screen. And then if you hit Stokes on the short roll, you know he can either drive, he can shoot, or he can pass out of that. Or if you go under on the screen, Blyden can launch it up.

Starting point is 00:18:18 That's a really fun action as well. So like in a weird way, Leroy Blyden becomes almost the X factor, I guess, the most important player on KU in terms of him playing well opens up the floor for your best player. On the flip side, if he's not playing well, if he's in hunted all the time on defense,

Starting point is 00:18:35 it eliminates some of the, the speed and quickness you have on the floor. It eliminates some of the three-point shooting you have on the floor. And then there's also the element of this where it's like Taylin Kinney or other point guard is a really young player. And I get it, Blighton's only a year older. But like he's been through the college game. You want to ease along Taylin Kinney as much as you can. And having another good guard to go along with him takes the pressure off of him.

Starting point is 00:18:59 So I do think Leroyden is as important as any player on this KU team, even Tyrant Stokes, but I'm expecting a big season from him nonetheless. All right, we're going to switch gears, talk a little KU football. Top five most important internal leaps that are needed from KU football players in 2020, that next. Thanks for joining us on today's episode of the show. We're brought to you by Fandual Sportsbook. And the biggest stage in world soccer is here. Every match feels like it has the potential for a memorable moment.

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Starting point is 00:20:20 Visit Fandual.com to get started today. This is locked on Jayhawks. Don't forget to check us out at L.O. underscore Jayhawks on Twitter at D. Johnson Radio as well. Let's get to our top five most important internal leaps needed for KU football players. That is a long title, but we're going to get into it. And the two criteria here. One, they have to be returning players, right?

Starting point is 00:20:46 Like, of course it would benefit KU if one of their transfers into the program took another leap forward from whatever their game was last year. Duh, right? But these are returning players. And I should also say this. The number one with a bullet in this discussion is the quarterback, assuming it's not Chase Jenkins. If it's Cole or Isaiah Marshall, that is a returning player.

Starting point is 00:21:09 That would be the most important player. for KU to get internal improvement from. But because we don't know who the quarterback's going to be yet, and because it is so obvious that whoever the quarterback would be number one, I'm just going to, for the sake of this, not include them in the top five, even though you would put them in as a shadow number one, right? Okay, so non-QBs, number five on the list, Carson Bruin.

Starting point is 00:21:31 You know, when you look at it, Brun had a really good redshirt freshman season. I guess now he's just a third-year player because of the new five and five. But when you look at Brun, good blocker, he leaves something like I want to see a little bit more wiggle. I want to see a little bit more in the receiving game this season from Bruin. I want to see if that can happen under Andy Codilnicki or is he going to stay more of a kind of just block first tight end? That'll be very interesting.

Starting point is 00:21:55 If you can take that step forward and become a more all around tight end and get even better as a blocker where it was already really good. But as a Richard freshman, there's going to be some lapses here and there. I think he has the potential to eventually be an all big 12 tight end for Kansas. right can he take those steps this year i think it would really help because you do have a lot of experience between the three guys behind him at tight end but you know i i don't know that any of them are more than like role players for you and so it would be nice to have a guy like carson brun kind of take down that spot number four on the list i'm going with taylor davis davis looked good in flashes as a freshman at kansas i think it was his redshirt freshman season when he was playing for k u and then he switched to kind of a

Starting point is 00:22:37 different safety spot last year. He didn't look as good. He's not the fastest guy in the world. He's more of a safety that's going to come up and hit you. And I don't know, it's almost like having another linebacker, but maybe a little bit faster out there. His game is not to be out in the open constantly shifting with slot receivers or, you know, I think this year because of some of the safeties KU brought in, he's going to

Starting point is 00:22:59 be able to shift back to a natural position. KU needs him to step up, right? They have some other safeties that should be able to create competition. and give KU, you know, some level of play here. But it would be nice if Taylor Davis took a step up because what we saw as a redshirt freshman showed flashes of maybe a future star for KU. And it almost felt like a step backward last year. But again, part of that could have been the position.

Starting point is 00:23:23 Maybe in a better position this year, can you take a step up and help that back end of KU that was not good enough a season ago? Number three on the list is Marcus Calvin. I don't know if he would have been in the top five before the injury that occurred to Trayvon McAlpine in the spring that, We still don't entirely know how it's going to affect the season for KU. Is McAlpine going to miss part of the season? Is he going to miss the entirety of the season for Kansas after transferring in from Tulane and being a projected starter?

Starting point is 00:23:49 But now that he's out, whether it is for a short period of time or that entirety of the season, you're talking about Blake Harold is one starting defensive tackle, and it's wide open for that other spot. Could it be even smalls, the transfer from UAB? Could it be one of these young guys like, I don't know, Kevin Oatis or Nick Juan Tomlin or something? could it even be Jibril Conday, the D2 transfer he brought in. The guy I am looking at is Marcus Calvin because Calvin was basically like the 50 tackle this past year. And there were moments where he was coming into games like fourth 50 tackle. And he was showing actually some really nice flash plays.

Starting point is 00:24:22 Like I liked what I saw from Marcus Calvin in 2025. Can you take another step forward and be ready to take on an even bigger load of snaps and potentially even be your other starting defensive tackle, right? Like that would be huge for KU if he can take that down. now that you do have one potential less guy, not just one less guy in terms of depth, but one less guy in terms of being an impact player, be huge if Marcus Calvin could have the type of season that I think he's capable of. Number two on the list is Austin Alexander,

Starting point is 00:24:50 going back to the DB's not being good enough a season ago for KU, they need Alexander to take a jump. Now, Alexander struggled a bit as a redshirt freshman, but he still did have some flashes. I think everybody will think back to the big past deflection he had against UCF to help them seal that game. And at the end of the day, this was a near four-star recruit that the fact that he was even getting on the field to begin with as a redshirt freshman is a win for kind of his recruiting win and his development to get to that point. But it can't just end there.

Starting point is 00:25:21 It can't just end as, oh, I was good enough to be a starter as a young player. It needs to become, okay, now I'm good enough to be, you know, a good corner. And then in another year, I'm good enough to be an all big 12 player or something. Like, that's what you hope out of this, right? I think it was a bigger indictment that you had to throw Alexander on a field as a starter last year's redshirt freshman on the rest of the room, whether that's recruiting or transfer portal and not doing enough to protect him from getting in there that early on. But the beauty of it now is that he is seasoned as still just a redshirt sophomore, I guess

Starting point is 00:25:52 third year player here to be able to have an impact as still relatively young, but a very talented player. And if he can take a step up, right? If he can take a step up, I love Jalen Todd as one. of the corners. And if Alexander becomes a competent corner in the Big 12, you might be working with something at the back end. Because again, like I said, I liked some of the safety additions. If Davis gets the step up too, like you might be cooking with something back there, right? But the number one player that KU needs to step up as returning players for non-quarterbacks,

Starting point is 00:26:21 Calvin Clements, right? Clements had a lot of ups and downs. There were a lot of downs. You think the Texas Tech game being really bad. I think he had a zero pass block grade on pro football focus. There were some other bad games and moments and clips in there too. the season went on over the last, you know, handful of game, really after the tech game, he was a lot more solid. He was more consistent. He was more solid overall. There were still some, you know, down moments, but it got better. It felt like he was trending in the right direction as the season came to a close, right? He has the body of a future pro, but he's got to put it together. And when I look at Clements, I see typically the guys he struggled most with in past rushes have been the speed rushers. Can he be better in that area? I've always thought Clements has been a better run blocker than a pass blocker. So can he take a step up even more this year in his past blocking, especially when you look at KU having a young quarterback, whoever it ends up being, they need their left tackle to protect that backside.

Starting point is 00:27:15 But also with KU being a probably run first team this year, they need him to be a road grader. They need him to be a mauler. And if Clements can take that jump that we saw from, you know, like I always think of Bryce Kable Do, who Kable do got in there early in his KU tenure and probably was not ready yet. But again, like they just didn't have the other guys. but by the time Cable do was in his final two or three seasons at KU,

Starting point is 00:27:38 he was a really stellar player for Kansas and now is off to the NFL. And can we see that jump from Clements of, okay, he's been accumulating all these game reps. We've seen some good, we've seen some bad. Now he's ready to have his breakout season. That would be huge for the KU offense and the KU offensive line. All right. That'll do it for this episode of Lockdown, Jayhawks.

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