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Class of 2019 PG Dakota Leffew (GA) Portal to Georgia

Carlos makes more sense if we think we need a more ball-dominant "pure PG" type, which is arguably necessary with JJ and Bell as running mates. Barring some developments as a shooter, he won't play off the ball as well as Leffew. I still find it kinda strange that we'd be interested in both of them filling the same spot.

Anywho, really curious to see how this all plays out. I had kinda assumed Leffew was a sure thing to come here.
 
dasher said:
No. Not yet. I have not heard a word on how his visit to Syracuse went. Let alone his visit to Nova.
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That combo guard from St. Joe's is still out there. He's talented and very experienced.
 
ROCuse said:
The photo of him in a Nova jersey looks like Nova?
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And the photo of him in a Syracuse indicates he's coming here?
I mean, this is what they do, they take pictures and do social media to convince you to come to their school.
 
Its good news he’s taking his visit to Xavier. Obviously means he wasn’t blown away by Nova. Not enough to commit to them while there. And the crazy way recruiting works out is he could of gave us a silent verbal but still wanted to take visits to make sure he wanted to be at Syracuse. Just throwing my thoughts out there doesn’t mean its true or not.
 
Melancer46 said:
I'm certainly hoping for better, but there's a decent chance this could apply to us next season too.
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I'm always intrigued by the potential of kids to improve and I love the idea that a healthy Westry is a stud and a freshman Donnie Freeman is a stud and we're a tourney team next year. But if I'm being objective -- I have no idea why anyone would look at what we have lined up at the moment and think it screams tourney team.

In fact, if someone came to you and said you had to bet your kids' college funds and your retirement account on us making vs. missing the tournament, I have a hard time believing many would let it roll on the 'making it' side.
 
albanycuse said:
Yeah means we might be on the outside looking in.
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There are quality guys entering the portal every day right now.

Leffew is kind of a MCW looking option; lanky, has midrange game, he sees a pass, but Westry in his freshman year at Auburn showed more flash on the dish.

If we get him, he fits a type (experienced and really productive at a lower level); if not, no sleep lost, there are a bunch of guys like him out there.

If we don't get him, the real question is whether we would have hired his coach or not.
 
orangefog said:
no, apparently "true" point guards aren't supposed to score
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Come on. Tyler Ennis was a true PG and scored the ball. So did Billy Edelin, Sherman Douglas, Pearl Washington. Other examples are people like Tiny Archibald, Allen Iverson and so many other legendary players who could set up a teammate for an easy bucket and still get their own.

It's about seeing the pass, and making the pass when it's there instead of the first priority being "getting my own".
 
kcsu said:
the fact he left without a commit obviously isn't good.
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I think if he goes somewhere else, the hiring of his coach looks impulsive and a poor decision strategically.
 
dasher said:
How do you know the amount? How do you know what we have? We had a poster last fall say that we couldn't compete in NIL for football. He said we couldn't compete with Wake Forrest. Now, all of a sudden, we are getting high ranked kids all over the country. We don't know what we have or don't have. and we sure don't know what other schools have.
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We have plenty. We fortunately are not going to overspend or waste money on the wrong kids
 
dasher said:
How do you know they have more NIL than we do?
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They have won recent national titles, they play in a good conference, they are located in philly and still connected to NYC via the MSG home for their conference tournament. They have access to better donors than we do right now. We've been mediocre for a decade. Our brand is not what we think it is to recruits.
 
albanycuse said:
Its good news he’s taking his visit to Xavier. Obviously means he wasn’t blown away by Nova. Not enough to commit to them while there. And the crazy way recruiting works out is he could of gave us a silent verbal but still wanted to take visits to make sure he wanted to be at Syracuse. Just throwing my thoughts out there doesn’t mean its true or not.
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Maybe he committed to Red, and Red told him to take all his visits anyways?

Maybe he just likes Skyline Chili?
 
50YRsofCuse said:
Even if Leffew signs, Syracuse can‘t call it a day because we still need a backup point guard because we wre unsure about Westry recovering from injury and no other guard seems to have a good handle.
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If we sign Leffew, it's going to be ball handling and playmaking by committee.

We will have Leffew (or replacement), JJ, Cuffe, Moore and Westry, if he's healthy.

If Westry's healthy, these guys are the group.
We can't take Leffew and still another guard, unless we know Westry won't be back.

We still need another forward more than we need a sixth guard.
 
albanycuse said:
I read somewhere hes friends with Red. Whether it’s true or not who knows.
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IthacaMatt said:
I think if he goes somewhere else, the hiring of his coach looks impulsive and a poor decision strategically.
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We can’t have hired his coach just to get Leffew right? I mean, even if we got the kid and had a great year because of it, that’s an incredibly tough look from a long-term perspective
 
IthacaMatt said:
They have won recent national titles, they play in a good conference, they are located in philly and still connected to NYC via the MSG home for their conference tournament. They have access to better donors than we do right now. We've been mediocre for a decade. Our brand is not what we think it is to recruits.
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None of that means they have more NIL than us.
 
billsin01 said:
We can’t have hired his coach just to get Leffew right? I mean, even if we got the kid and had a great year because of it, that’s an incredibly tough look from a long-term perspective
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Engelstad's record at Mt. St. Mary's was pretty awful. His resume wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to the top of the pile if a search firm had looked for someone.

I would have taken a chance on that young big man coach at IMG, who has connections to the NBA talent camp / program in Africa and has also been on the Nigeria national team.

If Engelstad is being hired for his bench experience, geez, it seems to me we could have found someone other than a guy whose only success as a head coach was in Division 3 seven or eight years ago.
 
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Sherman20 said:
I’m really hoping we are able to land Dakota. I like his game and think he has big upside in a P5 program with good talent around him. The Athletic lists him as one of the top 100 transfers available and has a lot of positive things to say about him.
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They do, however, list him as a wing and say he may be best suited to come off the bench if he goes to a high major.
 
IthacaMatt said:
Come on. Tyler Ennis was a true PG and scored the ball. So did Billy Edelin, Sherman Douglas, Pearl Washington. Other examples are people like Tiny Archibald, Allen Iverson and so many other legendary players who could set up a teammate for an easy bucket and still get their own.

It's about seeing the pass, and making the pass when it's there instead of the first priority being "getting my own".
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Everyone talks about Billy Edelin as strictly a PG.
They forget about his game against Notre Dame who had a point guard who was supposed to be a 1st round pick.
After playing against Billy that went down the tubes. I think his last name was Thomas.
 

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