After watching what’s available online, my takeaways.
Positives:
Sets massive screens: Excited to see what we can do with that.
Relentless on the boards: When Samson is struggling to rebound, this will be important. His physicality should wear down opposing bigs, especially if he’s coming off the bench.
Hustles and protects the rim: Overly ambitious sometimes, coaching will hopefully help him narrow down those errors. But I liked what I saw defensively.
Doesn’t foul: Pretty self explanatory. Plays solid defense without fouling, that’s big considering who our starter is.
Negatives:
Turnovers: Especially in the post, travels a ton, I don’t think he’ll get any designed post touches in our offense. Some bad hands moments.
Touch: No way around it, some of his misses near the rim were tragic. Reminds me of Carlton in that way.
Overall: I like the pickup, he’s got tons of upside, and does some things well despite his mediocre prior coaching. I envision him being crucial in screening shooters open with Clingan leaving. That was always the under appreciated part of Clingans impact, it’s crucial to our offense. Even if Samson gets bigger and improves with physicality, we’re gonna have matchups where he can’t handle the size disadvantage, Reed will be important there.
