{"id":131186,"date":"2025-03-27T20:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=131186"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:10:29","slug":"georgetown-hoyas-thomas-sorber-declares-2025-nba-draft-scouting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/27\/georgetown-hoyas-thomas-sorber-declares-2025-nba-draft-scouting-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoyas Freshman Declares For 2025 NBA Draft; Scouting Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgetown freshman center Thomas Sorber<\/a> \u201chas hired an agent and will declare for the 2025 NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility<\/a>,\u201d per ESPN draft expert Jonathan Givony.<\/p>\n

Hoyas Freshman Thomas Sorber Declares For 2025 NBA Draft<\/h2>\n

“The dream is for me to get to the NBA,” Sorber tells Givony. “Not just me, but my family.”<\/p>\n

Delivering his own scouting report, he says:<\/p>\n

“I am the type of player who will always make the right play. I can do a little bit of everything — pass, rebound, sit down and switch onto guards. Read plays and come from the weak side for blocks. I have a good touch. A feel for the game. But the main thing is to try and help my team win. Everyone says they want to be like [Nikola] Jokic. I also like to watch Bam Adebayo. His hustle, the way he’s expanded his game and switches from 1 to 5.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s dive into his self-evaluation.<\/p>\n

Thomas Sorber Scouting Report<\/h3>\n

By The Numbers<\/h4>\n

From just a statistical standpoint, the former four-star recruit has numbers comparisons comparable to projected lottery picks.<\/p>\n

In 2024-25, Sorber averaged 14.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 2.0 blocks and 1.5 steals per game. He wasn\u2019t particularly accurate beyond the arc, but he managed to convert six 3-pointers; as many as Maryland freshman Derik Queen<\/a> and one more than Duke freshman Khaman Maluach<\/a> (4). Sorber\u2019s defensive box plus-minus (4.4) was higher than that of Queen (4.3) and Maluach (3.5) as well.<\/p>\n

His counting stats are better than Maluach\u2019s across the board. Between he and Queen, who has started to be mocked in the top-10, there\u2019s less than a 10 percent difference between their scoring and rebounding averages. He also a much higher block rate (7.6 percent) than Queen (3.9 percent).<\/p>\n

Film Study<\/h3>\n

On film, he possesses a dynamic skillset<\/a> that backs up those numbers.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an inside-outside scorer with his a face-up game to match. He can force the issue, taking more than what the defense gives him. However, he\u2019s not a black hole on offense and he doesn\u2019t usually bite off more than he can chew.<\/p>\n

He also processes the court well, making smart and nifty passes. At worst, coaches will acknowledge his playmaking ability expect to make winning plays. At best, his decision-making and upside as a facilitator lends itself to his chance of becoming an offensive hub.<\/p>\n

Frankly, he should be able to do at least as much as Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun<\/a>. Sengun, who earned his first All-Star nod this season, has been compared to Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic<\/a>. That isn\u2019t to say Sorber will be a three-time NBA MVP one day. Nevertheless, that\u2019s the center tree that he belongs too.<\/p>\n

At the same time, he\u2019s got an opportunity to be a far better defender than either Jokic or Sengun. He\u2019s more mobile, particularly in space. He\u2019s also a much better shot-blocker than Sengun or Jokic.<\/p>\n

From every angle, Sorber looks like a lottery prospect. NBA scouts weren\u2019t singing his praises until midway through the season. But unless their boards are set in stone, there\u2019s no objective reason for him not to be in that conversation.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgetown freshman center Thomas Sorber \u201chas hired an agent and will declare for the 2025 NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility,\u201d per ESPN draft expert Jonathan Givony. Hoyas Freshman Thomas Sorber Declares For 2025 NBA Draft “The dream is for me to get to the NBA,” Sorber tells Givony. “Not just me, but my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":131194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[556,1608,773,20,31,62,3],"tags":[4293,921,98,72,49963],"class_list":["post-131186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba-draft","category-basketball","category-college-basketball","category-nuggets","category-rockets","category-nba","category-news","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-nba-draft","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-thomas-sorber"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131195,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131186\/revisions\/131195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}