Curious if anyone else has some ambivalence regarding Leffew? Seems like a nice player but not worth the money that Villanova is reportedly talking about. If somebody like Reynolds becomes available later, I would rather have spent the money on him. And there will be additional entries into the portal.
I do wonder if the Villanova report is accurate. I would’ve thought he would’ve just taken that kind of money if it was offered. Could be the agent trying to drive up the price for us or somebody else.
I also hope we have enough money after the point guard signing to get a guy who can shoot from the outside. That still seems to be a weakness for us.
Replacing Taylor with Freeman and Mintz with Leffew will make us a well rounded shooting team.
With Freeman, Bell, Leffew, Starling, Moore, Cuffe and even Davis guys you can't leave alone, we will rarely have more than one guy at a time on the floor who can't shoot. I guess it depends on who we get for deep depth at forward, since we can't really go into a season with only three forwards, but that's a different thread.
To put Leffew's season into perspective, Chris Bell led Syracuse with 200 three point attempts last season. Leffew had 203
. Bell had a slightly better percentage, but Leffew was far and away the best player on his team, attempting more 2pt attempts than anybody on his team as well as threes. Bell wasn't guarded quite so closely most of the season, with the other scoring threats we had.
Leffew is a good shooter and was taking and making threes in situations that Bell wouldn't attempt. Leffew probably isn't the spot up shooter Bell is, but he's more versatile of a shooter. With his ability to penetrate, he is very much a more versatile scorer, and created his own three point shot off the dribble, something very rare for Bell last year.
If Leffew rounds out our squad, I don't think shooting will be our Achilles heel.
