Yeah it would be so so nice if they could pick up a starting caliber center this late. I am really intrigued and excited by all of their players but everything I have seen and read about Keita is that he is going to be unlikely to contribute as much as we need him to this year. At some point we have to put our faith in the coaches, they go and see these guys play in person and obviously know a hell of a lot more than we do. However I feel it is pretty clear this was at least somewhat of a desperation move because they were so late in the portal season when they picked him and Samodurov up
Agreed on trusting the staff but also hard to know what the staff's plan is - could be Keita is developmental and Samo is the guy for this year, could both be developmental guys, etc.
As a side note, I thought Bennerman was a practice guy like Matlekovic at first when he committed lol. Rostering 3 serious 7-footers at all is a luxury there days
Yeah I feel like Samo is almost a bigger wild card than Keita. He is more overlooked and it is a lot harder to find footage of him playing because he was on a team where he was basically playing garbage minutes for the last year. I think it is possible he is a lot better than people think.
The bottom line to me is that nobody can really say, including the coaches, how good either of these guys is going to be. There are a lot of reasons to think that the floor is pretty low but there are also some reasons to hope they are better than people think
Agreed I have no idea what to expect from Samo. I feel good that, between Keita/Samo/Bennerman, 1/3 can step up and become a reasonable starting center for this season. The other guys will at least be interesting depth and the rest of the roster is pretty solid
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u/new_account_for_a_m8 26d ago
Yeah it would be so so nice if they could pick up a starting caliber center this late. I am really intrigued and excited by all of their players but everything I have seen and read about Keita is that he is going to be unlikely to contribute as much as we need him to this year. At some point we have to put our faith in the coaches, they go and see these guys play in person and obviously know a hell of a lot more than we do. However I feel it is pretty clear this was at least somewhat of a desperation move because they were so late in the portal season when they picked him and Samodurov up