I think people are biased against players who are not physically imposing either with size or with speed/athleticism. Reed doesn't look like a gifted athlete. He looks more like a nerdy white kid in high school who is going to be an engineer or something like that. That said, I never understand active rooting for our own player to fail.
Edey, Clingan, Castle, Sarr, Risacher and of course Devin Carter are all players who would have gotten meaningful minutes here and would be contributing.
Edey is the only one (when he’s not injured) who’d contribute. Sarr and Risacher are raw as heck and can’t shoot, they’re both net negatives getting the Jalen Green & Jabari treatment. Even for all the Castle hype his analytics are atrocious and he can’t shoot. What has Devin Carter done to suggest he’d be in our rotation other than you liking him? Clingan is interesting, just a question of fit with Alpi, we already have too many paint cloggers who can’t shoot. This draft class has been garbage. Might actually be worse than 2000.
lol no they wouldn't, you just don't watch them so you don't realize how god awful they have been so far. Almost all rookies are dreadful (some of the really old ones look decent early on before their reality sets in). McCain is the one rookie that has actually been decent but he got his chance because everyone on philly got hurt. Why even bring up someone like sarr? You're talking about a dude who has a -16.2 net rating and who's team has a 102 offensive rating when he plays. He's basically playing at a worst all time level offensive player in the history of basketball. A lot of these guys are putting up TS+ in the mid 80s, they're only plalying because they're on bad teams who's priority is development. Look, i understand you hate reed, i'm sure you have your reasons. But at least pretend to have a shred of reality.
Edey, Sarr and Clingan would both be backing up Alpi. Not so much on the floor with him. Maybe Sarr can play well next to Alpi. How is it that Castle can have game winning defensive plays for SA but wouldn't be able to do that in Houston? Also, Devin Carter is about to show the league why he should have been in the top 3. I'll give it a month before we start hearing his name mentioned in the ROY discussion.
Because Castle has been dogshit, none of those guys would get any playing time, it's just not how Udoka does things because he has no clue how to run rotations. Castle in fact has played significantly worse than Reed, but he's getting 25 minutes per game and is allowed (and willing) to chuck for volume despite a lack of talent.
A lot of people hate Reed so far (rightfully so for ClutchFans standards) but try to prop up other rookies who have been just as horrific. If we wanna play the hindsight game then we should have traded our pick, not draft someone else. Jalen + FVV + pick 3 for something is the hindsight play lol Edit. FWIW I still think Reed turns it around, his Summer League & reports of being a beast in practice tells us all his problems are in his head. Just a question of if he overcomes them or becomes Jerry Lin Simmons.
Ya, i still think long term reed will be good, i’m not too worried about him. Fred losing his shooting has been pretty brutal, and jalen is what he is, draft bust and awful contract.
Reed is not a bust lol. Now, the expectations some people had of him is a completely different matter. But he should be able to become a solid rotational player in this league at the very minimum.
Again, I know casuals get easily fooled by volume differences, so I don't expect you to know any better.
I see a pattern here. People who do not like Sengun and love Jalen tend to think Reed is a bust. These people's have been 100% wrong about Jalen and Alpi. I believe time will prove them wrong about Reed also. It must be embarrassing to be wrong all the time but I guess they have no shame.
I do not like what I see from Reed so far but I am also not too concerned about him, let's give him some more time. An undersized, not very atheltic guard normally takes longer time to develople, not mentioning the currentl lineup and the minutes he got. The team was looking good and there was not much room for him to show his talents on the court. The sample size is just not large enough and I am definitely not jumping into any conclusions right now.
Honestly he should demands a trade or to be sent down since he's not even going to get garbage time minutes. He shouldn't let ime's incompetence hurt his development.
I agree with the latter. But demand a trade? He was horrendous. Usually rookies are bad because they can't make shots but Reed was so bad that he couldn't even take shots. He had no confidence and couldn't create separation to get a shot off. It looked like a JV player playing against varsity. He had more than enough chances and his leash was pretty long.
