Kwame Evans Jr.

He's my starting three at small forward.

Kwame Evans from Oregon.

I like that addition.

What he does is a big 6'10", good length, good rim protection, rebounding, some mobility to him.

It has to be Perkins.

Yeah.

Second team, both Devin Royal and Kwame Evans made second team and third team.

Nobody else there.

I just think he'll be the best defensive player in the league.

Kwame Evans, I had high.

Royce Parham, I know you really liked a lot.

Did either of us have Devin Royal in our All-Big East teams? Because he was on second team.

Yeah, so Devin Royal, Royce Parham, Miles Bird, Kwame Evans Jr., and Najai Hines.

So that's Villanova, Marquette, Providence, Villanova, and Connecticut for the second team roster, Kevin.

I had Devin Royal and Kwame Evans Jr. both as third teamers.

I had Miles Bird as a second teamer.

If he can prove to be a 40 plus percent like spot up shooter, that might be enough for him.

Kwame Evans transferring from Oregon, kind of similar thing.

I thought the defense took an important stride last year, but there's always just that fire has always seemed to be missing from his game.

How does he impact offense consistently enough? Who knows? And then lastly, freshman.

Um, all right, so let's ta- let's, let's, let's pivot to, to the team you cover.

Uh, Tyler Perkins is on the first team, Kwame Evans on the second.

Uh, do you think Tyler Perkins is a potential legitimate player of the year candidate?

I'm not sure that the numbers will accrue to the point where he can win player of the year.

Kevin Willard has been honest about the fact that they didn't get him on campus u- until the summer.

It was a little bit later than they were hoping for, so he's a tad bit behind in terms of the installation of, of the offense, and they wanna run the offense through him in a lot of ways, 'cause he is such a, a good distributor with his size from the perimeter, the way he can stretch a defense.

But, and Kwame Evans, by the way, the Oregon transfer, has been limited, too, with a, an ankle injury.

Hmm.

Don't, I know his name, I recognize his name, but I don't remember him, like, being anything crazy.

Kwame Evans Jr., a senior at Villanova, and Devon Royal, a senior at Villanova.

They're both gonna be good.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, there's a great article on Basket Review by Joe Jackson.

It's just called "The Interesting Case for Kwame Evans Jr." A- and it's a really deep dive from a guy that is incredible at doing deep dives about his impact as a player on each end of the court, some of the statistical hurdles that he clears, like Will mentioned.

Uh, really, really good player, and I think just kind of got stuck on an Oregon team that put all its NIL money into Nate Bittle and Jackson Schelstad and dealt with injuries to both of them, particularly Schelstad.

And, uh, they just didn't really have any other options to be competitive in the Big Ten.