He improved in all areas. Not in leaps and bounds but he improved. Biggest thing was his motor and that He struggled fitting into our offense which is probably related. Him leaving isnt best for all parties. 7 footers with his mobility dont grow on trees.
Not sure what player you watched this season to think he improved. I can't think of one thing he does better this year compared to last year. He still can't score with his back to the basket, still can't shoot from the midrange, decent defensively but not much different from last year. Last year I thought sky was the limit for him I was very disappointed by his play this year. Owens has better than him most of the time.
Not saying it's a good thing he left, but I didn't say any improvement whatsoever
Guess we saw different things. His low post moves and his shooting stroke improved.
I guess. The scouting report other teams have on him is to obviously let him try and score with his back to the basket. I don't recall many double teams sent at him when he caught the ball on the block and I don't think there'd be any chance he'd be able to find the open guy and get it to him
He's the only player on our team that has made a back to the basket move all year. I guess we'll just post up Mussini
He makes back to the basket moves but he doesn't score when doing so. He doesn't have the touch. Maybe that will improve over time but he's no better at that than he was last year. And just because he's the only one that has made a back to the basket doesn't mean he's good at it. Obviously Yakwe and Owens can't do it either. That's why we shoot so many 3s
A couple a game is better than none. Kid is 10 games into his sophomore year. Still plenty of time to improve but since he's not shooting 70% and scoring 20 a game then good riddens to him.
If you look at him starting at the beginning of last year to this year there was a lot of improvement. Doesn't mean I think he was a firstbround pick or other teams needed to gameplan for him.
He wasn't scoring a couple a game with his back to the basket. All of his points were on catch and dunks/layups or putbacks.
Against the 4 decent or good teams we've played this season (MInnesota, MSU, VCU, Old Dom) he's shooting 35% from the field. That is horrific for a guy whose vast majority of shots are in the paint. Overall, last year he shot 48% from the field, this year 44% and that number probably would not have gone up once we started playing decent teams night in and night out. He was nothing more than a complete liability on offense so far this year. I think pre-injury Sima last year was the best Sima we've seen.
That said, I'm not happy he's gone because you can never have too many bigs. But I'm extremely concerned about the staff's player development skills mostly because of the lack of improvement Sima and Yakwe have shown this year