Schmidt is not good, way too timid of a player, way too slow on defense and his highest achievement thus far this year is most fouls per minutes played.Kotov is fascinating to me, after his first season I was told he had problems with Dan and would be transferring. That never materialized and then he sat on the bench ALL of last season and never appeared in a game even once. Pedon takes over and now he is actually getting 5-10 minutes a game? I thought I had heard the reason he stayed was because nobody else in the country was really looking for a player like him and obliviously going back to Russia in the past few years wasn’t a smart move either given everything going on over there.
That being said, as it relates to this year’s team his minutes would be better served going to Schmdit/Sissouku once he gets healthy. He just constantly takes himself out of plays, doesn’t get back on defense, and doesn’t contribute anything we can’t get from somebody else.