We can start panicking about Reed if he plays poorly in the regular season. Last season he had a phenomenal summer league and people were overreacting in the positive. Now he had a not-so-phenomenal two games (while definitely a little banged up in game 2) and I can’t help but to think that there’s a lot of negative overreactions now. I trust in Reed’s bballIQ and shooting, and I trust Stone and Ime because they think very highly of the kid!
The Rockets need to go on and get CP3 now! Depending on Reed Sheppard to contribute anything this season is a happening waiting to disaster.
Some of yall on here must have the most unrealistic expectations ever. He put up 28 8 4 4 3 while hitting 6 threes with ts% over 50 and that's not phenomenal? Knowing the other team sent multiple defenders at him cuz the rest of our roster was absolute trash. He should have easily had 10 assists but Williams missed so much he got cut. his second game was pretty bad and physicality got to him but he won't the focal point of our offense on the actual team. And he's the perfect complement to amen
What do you mean? Steph only had 1 SL where he played bad and then tore it up his rookie year. This is already Reed's second SL and he shot 35% on his rookie year and 32% in his 2nd SL. They are already in different trajectories.
We’ve come a long way since the Rockets dumped Chris Paul along with a ton of draft pick obligations, in order to get Harden his buddy Westbrook. Now most of us would celebrate if he returned to the Rockets. Though most would acknowledge that Chris Paul will likely go to wherever he wants to go. Most any team would make room for him if he wanted to sign with them. Dude is likely still the best backup PG in the NBA…
So how come first game he was able to put 28/4/4/3 while still playing with trash? Selective viewing is why people have unrealistic expectations on Reed. You are right if you only look at his one good game and ignore his bad game and the fact that he got a non contact injury after 1 game he had a great SL and I dunno why people say he played bad. This is like when people say Reed always played well when he got lots of playing time just ignoring the fact he got PT when he played well.
I know he was bad the second game and it mainly with the physicality and the grabbing the other team was able to get away with. He was constantly complaining to the officials which I've never seen before. My comment was mainly about how they said he had 2 subpar games. I thought he had 1 great game and 1 bad game. But none of it matters because he won't be the focal point of our offense. He's a great complement to Amen as their strengths are each others weaknesses. And he's an outstanding team player which can't be displayed when he's playing with a bunch of guys chucking trying to make a roster.
You can already see the over defense happening people saying he is Curry and averaging 25/5/5 on 40% 3 pt. Reed will do fine as a backup. He is already better than Holiday and Holiday was solid before.
I agree with you but thats not what you were saying in your first post. We dont need him to be a star to be a good backup he will play just 15-20 mins a night and his good defense means Ime will love him. Reed did indeed have a bad SL if you average out his stats in 2 games it wasnt good. The fact that he only played 2 games I mean health and resilience is also part of player qualities it is disappointing to me he got non contact injury after his first real game in a long while. Hopefully thats not a recurrent trend he will jave another chance in preseason.
you responded when I was still editing my post if you check you will see another section about his bad second game.
What did I mean? By the end of Steph’s SL stint one would not know he would morph into a great player. He got AMPLE opportunity in his first year because GSW was dog sh** in 2009. In his meaningful playtime last year Reed was showing stuff that was commensurate with his expectation. The context for his playing in this summer league again is that he joined a terribly competitive team and didn’t get enough drill. He played a great first game in SL. He got injured at the end of his first game in SL. He got a s*** roster put together around him, while playing injured in the second game. That’s the context. That’s a completely different and lost context. He likely won’t become Steph level in even the rosiest scenario. But equalizing the two experiences and trash his development prospect because of this is unfortunately moronic.
When Steph was Reed Sheppard's age, he was still in college because even after 2 seasons he wasn't seen as a valid NBA prospect so he had to head back for his 3rd season
Reed needs to be given the same runway Jalen Green got his third year in the league, first year with Udoka. It took Jalen over half the season to start looking good and people kept on saying "give him time to adjust." Then after a full year in Udoka's system Jalen was still wildly inconsistent in his fourth year in the league, and disappeared in the playoffs, as you're all aware. Jalen Green played 2204 minutes his rookie year. Steph Curry played 2896 minutes his rookie year. Reed Sheppard played 655 minutes his rookie year. I can understand keeping a short leash during tight games against fellow playoff contenders, but Ime needs to have Reed out there on the floor a lot when they're playing the bottom-feeders, because if the rest of the team can't make up for a few mistakes against the Wizards or Nets, then this team has much deeper problems than Reed Sheppard not playing like the 5th year player some seem to think he should be expected to be like.
His sample size is so small that it isn't even worth bringing up. Curry was 21.5 when he made his debut. Sheppard just turned 21 last month. Golden State was in a rebuild season when Curry started in 2009. The Rockets were loaded last season and loaded this season. If Reed was on a team where he had minutes last season, his stats would be quite different. Reed's 3P% was trash in February and January. He obviously feels like he's not certain of his role on a team with FVV. My guess is that Ime barked the soul out of him and they are trying to build him back up. This is where the FO needs to figure out how to make Reed and Ime work or get as much value as possible for Reed via trade. As it stands, Ime is destroying a difficult asset to attain and needs to work with Stone on getting Reed minutes and confidence. He's not someone to just sit on the bench and teach a lesson. He's a high value asset that loses value when a battle of wills ensues over something Ime is likely right about but needs to just back up about too. The Rockets won't get jack for him if he isn't allowed to play his game. The Rockets won't develop him correctly if they're too hard on him on a team trying to win it all. As we witnessed last season, seeding didn't really help us. So, just let the kids have fun and play for many of these games. Open up the throttle and let them run.
It really depends on your expectations.... I'd be thrilled if he could be our Derrick White. If you are expecting like a true point guard type of player then I feel like you will be disappointed.
to stay in the NBA, he needs to be John Stockton, efficient/competitive/smart /physical and dirty , that's like asking Osman Garuba to be Draymond Green
