We lost Fobbs, Betrand, Tunstall, Sanders and we have seven new players on the floor counting Zane. And Solly played just a couple of games last season. We basically have eight new guys playing with Thompson, Gibson, Dottin and Gray. Chemistry was going to be an issue whether Zane was coming or not. Now if you are talking about off-the-court chemistry. We had great off-the-court chemistry last season save for one player. We lost in the second round of the CAA's. Had a nice year overall. Not sure that mattered because our frontcourt gave us very little offensive production, our two guard went M.I.A. the last seven games and our freshman point guard was good, but struggled defensively when it mattered.
I'd like to think you get 13 choir boys who are all on the Dean's List and they can sing Kumbaya on bus trips. But talent wins with decent chemistry. If Zane can be a leader, get others involved and put up 15ppg instead of 19.7 and dish out four assists in 30mpgg (instead of 3.1 in 24mpg), with 1.5 spg, we'll be ok. Maybe as a 21-year old, he's a different person than he was as a 19-year old. I'm sure most of us were not super mature at that age and we made mistakes. His mistake might cost him a pro career somewhere, or he can rebound, put up gaudy numbers and help this team win.
As I said before, what did he have other than Morsell in 2017-18 on offense (sorry EK)? Gibson, Allen, Holland can all stroke it. Maybe Mims as well. Mims, Jones and Timberlake are outstanding-to-phenomenal athletes. He also didn't have that in 2017-18. He also has a 7-foot center to correct some defensive mistakes made not just by him, but others.
I'll use the cliche' again, that beggars can't be choosers. It's not like there are a bunch of former 20ppg scorers out there looking to head to TU. Again, there are also circumstances that basically made it a no-brainer not to take him.