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Full Breakdown of Each Member of the 2015 Recruiting Class

By Rayan Vatti

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Charlie Thomas

Position: PF

Height and Weight: 6 foot 8, 245 pounds

Recruiting Stars: 3 (247 Sports), 3 (ESPN), 3 (Yahoo Sports)

National Ranking: #324 (247 Sports), NR (Yahoo Sports)

Other Notable Offers: Vanderbilt, Rutgers, and DePaul

Strengths

  • Strong
  • Tough and physical
  • Very good rebounder
  • Solid Defender
  • Can finish strong in the paint
  • Can occasionally hit the open jump shot

Weaknesses

  • Not an offensive threat except for open dunks and layups
  • Not a consistent shooter
  • Slightly undersized for Big 10 Power Forward
  • Lacks foot speed
  • No post game

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    • 2015-2016 Outlook: Thomas still has a lot of work to do on developing the offensive portion of his game. Despite the lack of depth at forward, I think he would be better off taking a red shirt year to develop his game. Right now, he’s just a project and nothing more.

    Future Outlook: If he’s able to develop offensively, he can be a very solid role player in his later years. His ceiling isn’t very high, but he can be the tough, defensive minded glue guy that Bo Ryan absolutely adores.

    Player Comparison: Right now, he’s a more athletic version of Vitto Brown, but he can have the same sort of impact that Mike Bruesewitz had on defense and on the glass. But I think he will be slightly more of an offensive threat than The Bruiser was.

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