2 transfers Kansas basketball should pursue and 1 they should avoid
Kansas basketball should avoid Michigan de-commit Caleb Love.
2022-23 season stats (UNC): 16.7 PPG, 3.7 RPG, 2.8 APG, 37.8% FG, 29.9% 3PT
Aside from shooting 5-24 vs. Kansas in the national championship game or the fact he’s never eclipsed 38 percent shooting from the field, Love is a very good player. But those two facts certainly do not help his case.
Simply put, Love is not what the Jayhawks need. What good will his shot-creating abilities be for KU if he shoots more than seven threes a game and hits less than 30 percent of them? Kansas could use another guard, but it is not paramount for Bill Self right now. Dajuan Harris, Elmarko Jackson, Nick Timberlake, and Arterio Morris make up a powerful guard room.
Love is far too sloppy and inefficient to work in a Bill Self-system. Although he might have made it work under Hubert Davis, there’s no reason for Kansas to pursue a guard with a reputation as a shot chucker. Dajuan controls the tempo of the offense, and the primary plays drawn up will be pick and rolls between him and Dickinson. KU does not need Love to isolate every other play and throw up 30-foot threes.
He has been all over the headlines recently, but not for good reasons. Love said he was 100 percent committed to Michigan yet was eventually forced to de-commit because he did not qualify academically. If Kansas wants to add another guard in the portal rather than a wing, they can do much better than Love. The Jayhawks already acquired a 20-point-per-game scoring center and do not need the offense’s identity changed to add a low-percentage volume scorer.
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