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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5215693, member: 722"]
A recent NFL scouting catch phrase I'm seeing lately is "catching radius" referring to guys able to make catches that aren't right to their hands or body.  It's a combination of length of arms and ability to adjust to the ball.

One thing I saw with McLeod is that, while he's admittedly slow of foot, he has an enormous "block radius." Players would beat him off the dribble, seemingly with a clear line to the basket, and McLeod was able to get back into position to either challenge or even block the shot.  He isn't the defensive liability everybody seems to think he is.

McLeod had a very solid DBPM of 3.4 and a terrific block percentage of 13.8%.  McLeod's injury didn't give him enough possessions to qualify, but his block percentage would have been a top 25 season in the last 20 years since the advanced metric started being tracked.

McLeod is an elite shotblocking player.

And he played in a ton of really tough games before going down, it wasn't like he feasted on cupcakes.  He got 4 blocks against Tennessee, Gonzaga and Pitt, and 3 against LSU, even though he was playing less than half the game.  Plus, McLeod doesn't foul, getting only 11 in his 14 games played.

The last thing I'll point out is that the drastic difference in the way that McLeod and Lampkin play will probably make McLeod that much more effective when he's in.  Shots that guys are able to take right over Lampkin will be rejected for fast breaks the other way when the Highlander is in the pivot.

I'm excited to see him this season.

EDIT: looking at the advanced stats, McLeod was our second best player last season, second only to Maliq Brown.

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