Did you actually say he needs to clean his mechanics up? His mechanics are ridiculously good. Of all the things you could have criticized lmao The shots may not be hitting a ton at the moment but he hasn't had any real minutes to get a rhythm plus the misses are about as close as you can get. Learn to put your own biases and grudges aside and look at the game in a good faith way. Your commentary on Sheppard has been obsessive and mostly inaccurate
If his mechanics are good why isnt it going in? Great shooter but shooting 33%? Proof of the pudding is in the eating, ever heard of that? His mechanics are great for college but obviously he needs to make adjustments for the NBA level. Different leagues, different standards for mechanics. He has a good base for mechanics due to college, but saying its fine when he cant get his shot off or just clanking is straight up delusion on your part. When he is hitting above 40% on high volume in the NBA, thats when you say he has great mechanics. Stop being such a delulu. Brother you are the one who needs to be objective. If it was FVV or Holiday shooting these nos you wouldnt be defending his mechanics.
Because he comes in cold, plays 5 minutes takes a shot or two then sits. Needs time to come in, get up a sweat and feel the game, he needs PLAYING TIME .....5 minutes is a joke. DD
Aaron Holiday is not a rookie, come on, add some perspective......sometimes it isn't an excuse, it is just the truth of a matter. If they aren't going to play Reed, then send him to the Gleague let him run PG, and play Holiday as backup PG. DD
You may not take it that way, but Reed is indeed beating out Cam for minutes. Cam will obviously get some chances going forward, but as I said before the season, he isn't worth much without being deadly from long range.
He’ll get more and more comfortable as he plays. He’s passing up shots that he’ll be taking a month from now. He’s just settling into the pace of the game, but his big breakout game is coming. I was impressed with his ability to stay in front of guys tonight defensively
Risacher the guy you were creaming your pants over is shooting 30% from the field and 20% from 3 in 25mins/game. Maybe he needs to get taller or something? Sheppard will be fine once he gets regular minutes. Dude has taken 11 3-point shots this entire season.
You know that a 40& 3pt shooter still misses 6 of 10 shots - and at a small sample size he even can miss 10 straight. Don't put too much emphasis on percentages with this small sample size. That being said, he hit 4 of 11 threes so far this season for 36%, which is just fine. Yeah, his 2pt percentage is a little low, but this early in the season with this few minutes and him still getting used to guys being a lot bigger, faster, stronger and more athletic, I am not worried. To me Sheppard looks good on offense. You can sense that he wants to play within the offense and not force anything, which makes him look a little passive. On defense he has good hands but can get overpowered pretty easy. I guess thats why he is not playing more. But it's not like he allows a ton of points here either. He is a rookie that is still learning playing for a coach, that really appreciates veteran and cares more about winning than development. And he just was in his 7th game and has played a total of 65 minutes. Give him time. Maybe a short stint in the g-league just as Amen did and then he will carve out more and more minutes as the season progresses.
Not sure if you understood my post... Reed played primarily as a backup PG tonight as he has been. 11 of his 14 minutes were relieving FVV, Cam was never going to get those minutes. He only played 3 minutes at SG. So, sure, you could argue that he took 3 of the minutes that Cam would have otherwise had. My point was that the majority of Cam's minutes as a wing player have been absorbed by Amen Thompson, who is now playing basically starters minutes, and then also by Tari who is now seeing more SF minutes when he was previously used more as a backup PF. If you mean you really like Reed and you think he's better than Cam, that's fine. It's just more accurate from a minutes perspective to say that Amen/Tari beat out Cam for all of the backup SF minutes. Amen/Cam were splitting some backup SG minutes so now the split is with Amen/Reed. I guess you could say Reed beat out Cam for those 3 minutes.
That is why Edey was so highly projected and thought of....vacant C spot and his Purdue numbers had a chance to translate to a degree.
I dont think its that simple because Amen can also play PG and JG can slide into pg as well. Personally I do think it is between Reed and Cam cuz Cam is usually the one who backs up either JG or FVV but now those minutes went to Reed.
Risacher still better than freaking Reed Sheppard. Its funny you making of Risacher when Cocaine Curry cant even do the one thing he was supposed to be good at. At least Risacher getting minutes and playing good defense Sheppard cant even get on the court. Sheppard taking 11 shots is due to him being scared to shoot not sure why thats an excuse.
Sure Amen CAN play PG but he rarely does. Regarding Cam, he never backs up FVV. He does backup Jalen but this season those minutes have been split between him and Amen. Amen has been coming in first this year to pick up Jalen and Cam has been getting spot minutes at the 3 and really only playing more if Ime likes what he sees that night.
Cam never backs up FVV but he takes Jalens spot who does back up FVV and slides to the 1 so its the same thing. Same is true with Amen in fact our best 5 man lineup so far is Amen/JG/Brooks/Tari/Sengun. I think Cam is getting benched because he has played out of control whenever he saw the court, he does nothing except drive to the hoop every possession. On defense he isnt trying as hard as ln offense he is always jogging back and nonchalant if he isnt handling ball.
It's silly to be arguing about shooting of this small a sample size. Entering last night's game, Sheppard was shooting over 42% from 3. His 2nd attempt last night went in and then rattled out. That goes in, then he raises his 3pt percentage last night to 45%. He's shooting 36.3%, which unfortunately is one of our highest percentages. 11 attempts isn't going to tell you much for anyone. Having good mechanics isn't going to guarentee that a player shoots a high percentage on a large volume of shots. There are lots of factors. Have you heard a single expert criticize Sheppard's mechanics?
4 of 11 is 36%. If one of his near misses (and there have been a lot that rimmed out) goes in he is at 45% and you sound even worse than you already do. If you are watching the game and cannot see what Reed brings, why he is already doing at least as well as one could reasonably expect, and why he is infinitely more important to this team this season than Cam Whitmore, then it probably isn’t worth discussing.
The lineup of Amen/Green/Brooks/Alpie/Eason has played a grand total of 10 minutes together this year. You're the king of the small sample size.
I think Cams defensive effort has been good this season. It’s the switching or knowing when to that’s a lil suspect for him but when he’s the primary defender the effort is all there
Midgets usually take time to adjust to the NBA... I like the Sheppard kid, but never expected much in the early going. This is the one of our picks that I actually think we have to be more patient with, because of the size limitation.
