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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5044243, member: 1674"] The bolded is fairly debatable and where I guess the disconnect is. Everyone keeps mentioning that Dalton Knecht came from a small school too; the difference is he was very good in his conference and suffered basically no drop off when his team faced better competition. Davis and Leffew on the other hand completely crumbled against better opponents. Davis' reliance on mid-range shooting doesn't really lend itself well to scoring efficiency to begin with, but he was okay in that regard overall. Against top 150 opponents though, his efficiency fell off a cliff to Justin Taylor/Benny Williams territory. I think we can maybe explain this away based on the fact that similar to Maliq, he was being played out of position at C, and unlike Maliq, he was really the center of Delaware's offense so he didn't have the luxury of just patiently waiting for good looks to come to him. Davis is obviously very short for a C and isn't the most explosive guy out there, so I imagine he didn't deal well with the length that better teams could throw at him. All in all, I'm fairly optimistic that with a reduced role and playing in his proper position, he'll be solid. And in the very least, we literally didn't have any playable forwards/centers off the bench last season so he has to be an upgrade by default. Up until this season, Leffew had more turnovers than assists in his career and is ever so slightly in the positive now. He's never been a very efficient scorer either despite being a pretty good 3 point shooter; he takes a lot of mid-range jumpers and doesn't shoot them very well and doesn't draw many fouls so those two things have generally weighed his efficiency down. And against top 150 opponents, his scoring efficiency craters; his TS% in those games would have put him above just Peter Carey on this year's roster. Having said that, like Davis, an optimistic outlook can potentially excuse some of that. He's never played PG and wasn't intended to be the PG this past season either; he was forced into the role when their starter got injured. All of his games against top 150 opponents were either back when he was an off-ball guard or very early in his transition to PG. It's entirely possible that he got better/more comfortable by the end of the season and would have fared better against those opponents if he played against them again. We simply don't know for sure. Also entirely possible that with better teammates, there will be less attention paid to him and therefore, he'll be able to get higher quality shots. I'm a bit skeptical of that because he wasn't even the go-to guy on his team two years ago when most of his games against decent competition occurred and also because we're presumably bringing him in to be a scoring PG; he's going to be the focus of the defense more often than not even if his teammates are better than they were at Mount St. Mary's. Anywho, we just have to trust Red and Co. and hope for the best. If Leffew were coming in to be our combo guard 6th man, I'd be really happy with both of these additions. Penciling him in as our starting PG with no real backup in case he struggles worries me, but it is what it is. If he ends up being an awesome starting PG, it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong about someone. Edit: Wow this ended up being a lot longer than I intended lol. [/QUOTE]

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