Every Xavier Legette target 2023

[AceBoogie]

On 5/2/2024 at 3:37 PM, CRA said:

to me those are basically the same thing.  Baker just went back to being Baker.  Carolina was the anomaly for him. 

Then stop giving one man the credit

[45catfan]

Pluses: Tall, fast, above average hands.

Minuses: Speed is linear, doesn't play big despite size (jump balls aside), needs to be schemed open/struggles versus press.

I wouldn't have minded him in as our 2nd pick, not with our first though. 

 

[TD alt]

1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

Pluses: Tall, fast, above average hands.

Minuses: Speed is linear, doesn't play big despite size (jump balls aside), needs to be schemed open/struggles versus press.

I wouldn't have minded him in as our 2nd pick, not with our first though. 

 

Struggles versus press? Needs to be schemed open? Where did you get that bit of information?

Legette gets to his spot and detaches from the defender, albeit not as gracefully as some. He's a bull in a china shop with defenders in different coverages. With footwork development and more nuanced movement, he may not be a bull, but a monster against the press. He plays bigger than his size, as is evidenced by his jump balls, which is huge (not some afterthought as you framed it). Where he doesn't play "big" thus far is on screens, but perhaps a better O-line will help that. 

As for being schemed open, that's not really true either, at least at USC (East). But I'd say that it's a good thing to get your weapons open in space and let them do what they do. You just find things that work, and that's what successful coaches do.

 

[Thorrez]

He is by no means perfect, to me it looks like he is very poor att what he is poor at and very good at what is is good at. I take that over everything good but nothing above good. 

Fit is a question, Young is not at toss it up gunslinger. It is easy to imagine a 1000+ season with a guy like (prime) Wilson or Jake.