Always love it when someone comes onboard.Hope springs eternal for a great get.

WHOA, that's quite a stat line for Sloan Seymour as a freshman at Siena, I'm not sure that I've ever seen a stat line like that for a starter/key player, he "literally did nothing but shoot threes" as BM wrote!! It looks like he can play in the post when you look at his size and wing span, so he should be able to rebound, defend and maybe block some shots when he starts playing for GW in 2020-2021.

Sloan Seymour looks like a taller and stronger version of former GW player Mikic. With the way Jamison Battle looked like a 3-point marksman during several Kenner League games and Sloan Seymour only shooting 3's last year at Siena, GW could have a lethal duo of 3-point shooters with those 2 down the road. 

0.7 rpg last year as a freshman.  More than 8 rpg in high school.  

So, was this a product of him being in a system where all they wanted was his 3-point shooting or because he didn't have the physicality for the college game?  I read he bulked up after the season was over this year, so perhaps this year off will have a great effect on his all-around game.  

Regardless, seems like a great addition.  Welcome, Sloan!

He missed 169 shots and had only four offensive rebounds.  You’d think he’d pick up more just by accident.

Last edited by BM (8/05/2019 11:00 am)

Definitely some similarities with Mikic here down to the reports on wanting and needing to be a more well rounded player.  My guess is that Sloan's three point effectiveness will be decided in part by the players he is playing with.  Mikic lit things up from 3 as a freshman when he caught teams off guard, same as Sloan last year.  If we have a potent enough lineup, then defenses will have a tough time keying on Sloan.  If we continue to be an offensively challenged team under JC, then it becomes all the more easy for opponents to shut down a designated three point shooter.

BM wrote:

Don’t want to belabor this, but I will. Comparing him to Mikic is a bit of a disservice to Nemanja who had a much more well rounded freshman season.

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BM, I agree that Mikic was a more well rounded player statistically than Seymour was during their freshmen seasons.  The numbers do not lie.  Nevertheless, Lonergan arrived at GW and almost immediately said that Mikic would have to do a better job of rebounding and defense if he was to earn his playing time.  Mikic's playing time stayed about the same in Lonergan's first year, then was cut in half, followed by a slight bump during his senior season.  My other point with the comparison is that Mikic shot 43.6% from 3 his freshman season and then never got to 36% in any of his other three seasons.  Opponents were able to scout him and that made it more difficult for him to find open looks.  The same possibility is in play for Sloan, unless or until there is enough offensive talent around him that defenses can not afford to key on him.

Sloan Seymour started 32 of Siena's 33 games last year and played about 27 minutes per game, so it looks like Jamion Christian was satisfied with S.Seymour being the "Designated Shooter", and not contributing in other aspects of the game. I'd assume that most coaches would cut the minutes or bench a guy who didn't do much else besides taking 3's, but that wasn't the case with S.Seymour. The fact that J.Christian has brought Seymour along to GW shows that he thinks highly of him and his game. 

The Mikic comparison had to do with the fact that both he and Sloan Seymour's main job was to spot up and take 3's. My recollection of Mikic was him shooting and making a lot of 3's, but BM has showed that Mikic was a more well-rounded player than S.Seymour was. Also, Mikic wasn't a "Lonergan guy"(meaning ML did not recruit Mikic), so ML not being satisfied with his game and reducing his minutes was to be expected.

The Core 4 recruiting class also came in during Mikic's sophomore year(2012-2013) which probably played a role in Mikic getting less minutes over his final 3 years at GW. This looks to be a situation where Sloan Seymour is a "Jamion Christian guy", he's the only guy on GW who has played for him, so the coach will have more patience with Seymour, than ML may have had with Mikic. 

Last edited by Thomas (8/06/2019 12:23 pm)