He's had several really good games, many more than just one fluke game. Z has been good the last couple, AB helped out tonight. Let's stop picking out the negative things and more praise the kids form coming along so we have legit options at the 5. Not just have to settle for one of them.
Cal better start playing z as much as possible. I’m glad he went with him quite a bit tonight. Still needs better conditioning but he’s our best option and he blocks shots as well.
He’s the worst, best shot blocker I’ve ever seen. He tries to block so many he falls for every pump fake or move ever. If he could be like Noel and hold his ground and block shots like he can then he would be perfect. He is still like a baby Giraffe out there. He gets lost and is like you said a half second behind on a lot of plays
Somto has a good frame to develop. I don’t expect any offense from him but if he rebounds, blocks shots, and catches lobs early that’s what we need. If he sticks around he could become very good. I hope he develops into a mini Bam.
He has his moments and I’d definitely prefer to keep him. He’s improving and I’d expect a bigger jump next year. He probably won’t ever be an offensive stud but his touch and moves to the basket are improving. He’s fluid with great shot blocking. He just needs reps to get refined and another year in the gym like a few of our guys.
We do but hope to see us consistently give Z the most minutes of the 5 group moving forward.
Agreed
Been saying it for awhile. Guy had 1 great game where 2 of his blocks were allie oop passes and people were asking if he was better than Noel lol. The guy has stone hands, struggles to grab rebs and gets scored on more than Z in the post. When Z was in MissSt mostly avoided going inside after his early 3 blocks. He didn't have a great offensive game this time but we are at our best with him and the other 2 didn't do anything. Z at least rebounds and blocks shots when he isn't scoring.
Still not good, but much better than a -23. He's got to get more effective with his offensive game if he wants to get more playing time.
It’s the defense that will keep him off the floor, from what I’ve heard . Supposedly, he makes Oscar look nimble. We’ll see .
I plan on going back and watching — but at what point was it Z ask for a break and Cal didn’t sub him out ? Z fought really hard , I love the kid and his upside is Ginormous
Who are you hearing this from? He is an athletic freak of nature, looks like a grown man now and I believe he has like a 40 inch vertical or something crazy for a 6'10" 245 lb dude. When you are that athletic and can jump like that at that size, I find it hard to believe his lateral movement is bad, maybe so but it will be effort or motor based because you can't be athletic enought to throw 6'10" 245 lb body 40 inches into the air and not be quick... that's fast twitch muscle fibers... ala Zion like. I think I eve recently saw a clip somebody comparing a play Somto had to something zion would do just because of how quick he got to a block that seemed un-reachable.
Absolutely. He had a bad night but Z and Bradshaw stepped up. I’m tickled we have three 7 footers who can contribute on a given night.
Big Z is more intimidating on defense inside. Players seem to fear his shot blocking ability a lot more. And offensively, you know he will give us more than the other two on a regular basis. More he is on the floor, the more he helps us IMO.
He was bent over from exhaustion. A couple of times, I thought I saw him look at the bench to get subbed for. That was a big tough team to get your game legs against.
Here’s an example
The +- is the dumbest analytic of all the dumb analytics. But he didn’t play well.
That makes sense... but that's not saying he has bad lateral quickness or whatever you said before. What you have quoted here is saying Somto is a project due to low basketball IQ basically. He has only played ball for 4 years. But let's not get it wrong he is a freak athlete. When Willie Cauley was a freshman I saw a freak a new the potential was there....I kind of feel somto has that.
No it was David Sisk that was saying that . The quote I posted was someone else .
I’m going to have nightmares about Virginia knocking us out while holding us to 47 points.
