Thomas Sorber 2025 NBA Draft Profile

Thomas Sorber 2025 NBA Draft Profile

We are less than one month away from the 2025 NBA Draft! Today, we will be diving into Georgetown’s Thomas Sorber, whose season was prematurely cut short due to injury. Let’s dive into it!

Height (no shoes): 6’9.25 (7’6 wingspan, 9’1 standing reach)

Weight: 262.8

Draft Age: 19.5

Position: Big

Sorber was a top-50 recruit out of Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia, Penn., according to 247sports.com. The four-star recruit was the No. 4 recruit in Pennsylvania and the No. 10 center in the 2024 class, behind names such as Khaman Maluach, Derik Queen, Flory Bidunga and Jayden Quaintance.

Sorber ultimately chose Georgetown over Maryland, Penn State, Miami, Providence, Syracuse and Villanova, among others. He helped completely flip Georgetown in Ed Cooley’s second season with the Hoyas, averaging 14.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game on 58.0 percent true shooting.

However, he was limited to just 24 games (23 starts) due to a foot injury that prematurely ended his season. In games he started, Georgetown went 15-8 (3-8 in others), illustrating the on-court impact he had in his lone collegiate season.

Strengths:

Sorber isn’t your modern-day, floor-spacing big man. Instead, he’s an old-school throwback with phenomenal footwork out of the post, where he’s capable of finishing over both shoulders.

Most would look at that as a negative, but in his case, I view it as a positive. He knows how to use his 6-foot-10, 260-pound frame to his advantage. I’m not even sure if it’s deceptive: Sorber is strong as hell. As the 2024-25 season went on, he learned how to play through physicality around the rim, converting on 72.1 percent of his rim attempts. Teams would try and bully him in the post, but he was nowhere near fazed, using his mass, hands and knowledge of angles and take advantage of any slip-ups.

His screen-setting was fairly good most of the time; he has an incredibly wide base already as it is, making it easier for him to hold a screen at the point-of-contact to free up his guards.

Similar to Kalkbrenner, Sorber is an elite rim protector with phenomenal verticality. He used his 7-foot-6 wingspan and 9-foot-1 standing reach as well as anyone could at his size, rejecting 2.9 shots per 75 possessions with the nation’s 11th-highest block rate for players smaller than 6-foot-11 (min. 750 MIN), according to Stathead.

He was another player who didn’t foul all that often around the rim, contesting with two hands. He did a great job manning drop coverage, oftentimes disrupting the passing lanes. He was nimble in his backpedal, and his wide base and length allowed him to take up as much space as a 7-footer would in those situations.

Sorber had excellent coordination with both hands, with very good closing speed when he was around the rim. Sorber’s hands are excellent. He was an immovable object in the post; he had elite center of gravity when bigs tried to push him off his spots. He was a brick wall.

Two of my favorite parts about Sorber’s game are his communication and passing. He patrolled his back line as well as anyone. When he had the rock in his hands in the post or ATB, he wasn’t afraid to direct traffic. He was their leader. Sorber is a skilled center, even though he doesn’t possess great ball-handling.

Weaknesses:

Sorber’s season was cut short in mid-February due to a foot injury he suffered on Feb. 15 against Butler. He went under the knife later in the month, capping his season at 24 games.

Obviously, there’s still a decent sample of games to evaluate him from. I’m not going to act like a doctor, but a near-7-footer with a foot injury raises alarm bells. From Bill Walton to Greg Oden to Yao Ming to Ralph Sampson to Brad Daugherty, the history with big men and foot injuries is not great.

That’s not a concern on the court, but my question is: How is his health heading into draft night? How are the medicals looking? Even if he passes all the tests, betting on a 6-foot-10 big with foot problems to stay healthy carries inherent risk.

This ties into his vertical athleticism. He’s not a poor vertical athlete, per se–his length helps him make up for it–but he’s not a great vertical athlete relative to other (bigger) centers in his class. He didn’t test at the combine because of his foot injury, but if he lost a step or two due to his injury, that could be concerning.

Sorber didn’t have a great shooting touch outside of 10-15 feet. He shot just 38.1 percent on non-rim 2s this season and just 6-of-37 from 3-point range. That said, I am a believer that he will eventually develop that shooting touch, but I am not anticipating that it comes right away.

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Projection: Top-20 pick

There is a razor-thin gap for me with Sorber, Maluach and Asa Newell. Yes, I have all of them above Derik Queen. Argue with a wall. If Sorber’s season didn’t end with a foot injury, he’d be my best big in the class. For now, it’s Newell, but you could talk me into any of the three.

I love Sorber as a player, but the biggest question over his head will be the medicals at his size. That’s a huge concern. His upside is enormous, but I am hoping he’s able to clear that hurdle without any issues.

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