Buzelis's shooting is suspect. That's probably why people are that hot about him. He sounds like a taller version of Jalen Green. Could be a star, but could also be extremely frustrating if he can't shoot consistently.
I think you're overlooking the fact Sheppard's acurate three point shooting will cut into our offensive rebounding opportunities too. Huge issue.
Bruh just take the L, say you were wrong about Sheppard but you prefer other prospects and move on. You’ve cycled through all the stereotypical white player weaknesses and finally have to settle for “he’s short” - AKA literally the average size of a NBA point guard … And now he’s an injury-concern because he jumps really high. You could have stopped long ago and saved face. By the way, what does height have to do with likelihood of injury? My username is literally 2 guys who were injury prone - one is extremely tall and didn’t get off the ground, the other is the hyper-athletic tall-for-position types you cream your pants over.
If Russell Westbrook was half an inch shorter then his career would have ended 8 years ago with all his jumping. Dame Lillard too I know you are trolling...where do you get that jumping is a staple of Reed's game?
KPJ agrees. Playing PG in the NBA is easy to learn. BTW when Dillingham and Sheppard were in at the same time, who ran point? BTW2 the consensus used to be that elite college PGs with multiple years experience had a difficult time making the transition to NBA PG … and … short college SGs had it even rougher transitioning to NBA PG. All said, Sheppard might be able to pull that off … but there are risks that he will not. If Ime/Stone weren’t blowing smoke, they want length and versatility which is not a description of Sheppard.
So a little devil's advocate on Reed Sheppard: Jevon Carter. A guy who is, by all accounts, a really good defender, a very good shooter, but has had so far a pretty meh NBA career off the bench for limited minutes. Now, I will say that I think Reed has more to his game than Jevon in several areas, so he can probably be a better player. But I do want to point out that just because a player has 3-and-D on lockdown, that doesn't guarantee a high-quality, impact roleplayer--if he's short and doesn't do enough another things well. Reed is an interesting case to me because we've had a lot of players lately where shooting is the swing skill. That's not the case with Sheppard. I think for him, the swing skills are going to be his ballhandling and playmaking. His assist numbers were solid in college but I've heard some evaluators who are very doubtful he can play point guard at the next level. It's really important that he be able to at least man the position part-time and generate some significant offense for others, because I think it's very difficult for a 6'2" player in today's game to be able to be a "real dude" and not just a bench journeyman without that in his game. Which is why I bring up Carter. He's the case study. Also Aaron Holiday to a lesser degree (although I don't think his defense is at Carter's level).
BTW who led Kentucky in assists last year? Who had a better ast/to ratio between the two? In the last 25 years, 10 point guards have been rookie of the year. Of those 10, 6 were 6'3" and under (Francis, CP3, Rose, Irving, Lillard, Morant,) and 4 were 6'4 and over ( Evans, Carter-Williams, Brogdon, LeMelo Ball). It doesn't appear that the smaller/average size point guards had any more difficulty than the bigger PGs. Looking at those two lists, I'd much rather have the smaller guys than the big ones.There's several HOFers among the smaller guys, not so much for the big PGs.
