Cedric Tomes commits!!!

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leftyslefty said:
Honest…..I’m not stalking Cedric, it’s just easier for me to get to games on the east end of town.

East Ridge beat CDH 67-59 on Friday night as Cedric scored 25. He was double teamed most of the night (as usual) took some ill advised shots,
but still shows a swagger that I like. He had 3 teammates score in double figures, and that is a formula his team needs to have success.

The game was quite chippy with Tomes in the middle of it. the refs had to talk to both him and his coach at half time.

Didn’t keep stats in this one except to notice that he was 7-7 from the line including 4-4 at crunch time…Ty Schlegel had 25 for CDH.
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The thing that should excite people about Cedric is he has the potential to turn into a guy as an upperclassmen that we just don't have right now. A guy who can fill it up when the offense isn't flowing. You can run all the beautiful back cuts and motions you want but sometimes when the chips are down you need a guy who can just go get his and Tomes could give us that. He has to facilitate for himself and the team at East Ridge as they lack playmakers in their backcourt so naturally he's a high usage low efficiency type on his team out of necessity but that won't be the case in college.
 

The Deliberate Stranger said:
The thing that should excite people about Cedric is he has the potential to turn into a guy as an upperclassmen that we just don't have right now. A guy who can fill it up when the offense isn't flowing. You can run all the beautiful back cuts and motions you want but sometimes when the chips are down you need a guy who can just go get his and Tomes could give us that. He has to facilitate for himself and the team at East Ridge as they lack playmakers in their backcourt so naturally he's a high usage low efficiency type on his team out of necessity but that won't be the case in college.
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Marcus Carr is the only guy I've felt that way about in the last two decades or so of Gopher basketball.
 

Roland Brooks said:
He is small and scores in the lane over small high school players with no rim protector behind them … that’s one thing I am curious about.. also needs to work on catch and shoot three.. lots of shooting threes after needing rhythm dribbles.. curious about that.. curious if he can guard.. should be fun
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I just wrote how he was scoring over and over against 6-5 Iowa St comit Wiggins.
 




eker0016 said:
Marcus Carr is the only guy I've felt that way about in the last two decades or so of Gopher basketball.
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Marcus was one, Nate Mason was another mid range pull up in transition stopped a lot of opposing team runs. Andre Hollins pre ankle injury was a guy who could get what he wanted whenever he wanted as well
 

The Deliberate Stranger said:
Marcus was one, Nate Mason was another mid range pull up in transition stopped a lot of opposing team runs. Andre Hollins pre ankle injury was a guy who could get what he wanted whenever he wanted as well
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I'd say Nate Mason or Devoe Joseph might be good comparisons. Neither were super athletic/quick, but they could do that stop start thing on drives to get defenders off balance and score on drives.
 


You know there were many more questions about Asuma playing in single A competition, although they did play a few bigger schools, on whether he is quick enough, a good enough ball handler, or whether he is a pg. He has been a solid guard.

Tomes is putting up crazy stats against 4A competition, and I'm sure when his team plays a top 5 team, and the main goal is to double him, and let others on his team "beat them", the percentages aren't great. If he is as bad of a recruit as some are making him, he will never be the "man" teams are trying to stop for the gophers. He is the #6 recruit in MN for a reason, in not too deep of a SR class.

I have watched thousands of high schoolers, some deemed projects, some considered to slow, some sure things. Tomes can score against bigger taller athletes, and he has unlimited range.

The question for me is will he buy into defense, and probably become average there? Will he play in Niko's offense, can he work on catch and shoot 3's, can his ego handle maybe playing 7-12 minutes a game next year and maybe only getting 2-3 shots?
 





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