Did you actually watch this video? Yes he's doing a lot of catch and shoot, but he's also quite clearly functioning as a PG/primary ball handler in a LOT of these clips lol.
If you agree that he does a lot of CATCH AND SHOOT....IT PROVES MY POINT. He was not a true PG. Every SG pass in the flow of the offense, it doesnt make them a PG.
See? This is my point, these guys don't actually watch any of the games and they don't know the first thing about basketball. Reeves is a shooting guard who averaged 1.6 assists to 1.2 turnovers per game for Kentucky and this crazy kid somehow thinks or at least claims to think he was their ****ing PG...and that their actual PG wasn't. He doesn't even know enough to point to DIllingham, who was a combo guard for them...but was A LOT more of a PG than Reeves was.
No it doesn't prove your point at all, it just means he has some catch and shoot highlights, newsflash he's a shooter of course he does. That video does not suggest shooting guard at all, he's distributing, drive and dish, he looks like a PG.
Reeves was the STARTING PG, Dillingham and Reed came off the bench. Similarly to Holiday, Holiday's title is PG but he play like a SG.
So, you're saying just because a player drive and dish, that makes him a PG? Giannas drives and dish, so does Dreymond Green but it doesnt make them PG. A PG controls the pace of the offense, gets players in their sets, has the ability to setup PNR. Thats not Reed. Reed plays off players, he looks for other players to set him up to SHOOT.
I think he's doing just fine. IMO, we must give the offense at least 15-20 games to evolve. Every player in the starting lineup needs time to adapt to each other. Right now, Reed's efficiency concerns me more than his volume. If he's efficient, more shots will come.
What you describe is not PG. It's floor general. There's a difference between those two. Jokic is a floor general. He's not a PG. Curry is a PG but not a floor general.
He started, because his coach was a moron.....a moron that got fired over that decision, but he wasn't a PG. Both Dillingham and Reed averaged more than twice as many assists per game than Reeves (with Reed averaging nearly 3 times as many) ...and they weren't the only 2 guys on the team to average more than twice as many assists than Reeves. Sorry guy but you are either completely ignorant on this one, or you simply don't know basketball well enough. You pick. Suggesting that Holiday and Reed play similarly, or Reed in college played similarly to Holiday suggests that you have no clue what you are watching when you attempt to watch basketball. Holiday plays similar to how Rob Dillingham played for the WIldcats....only Rob was actually good in college.
Im not going to insult anyone to get my point across, there's no need. Besides, we're just having a discussion. "Coach was a moron" and "recruiting promises" are both excuses. If you're good, you're going to start. Thats the way its always been. Reed is a player who needs to have volume shots and the ball in his hands to be effective. Thats why Calipari had him coming off the bench. Thats why he flourished in some college games, in the G-League and the one game against OKC. He had more opportunities. He's not going to have that opportunity with the Rockets starting unit. He's the 5th option!
The coach was literally run out of town for that objectively really dumb decision.....that's just the facts. The shooting guard that you ridiculously claim was their PG was the 3rd guard on that Kentucky team selected in the 2024 draft....as a second round pick....who has already been waived by the team that drafted him and is currently on a 2 way contract. There's no argument whatsoever that he was ever better than either Sheppard or Dillingham. Sorry, but your hot take has absolutely no support by the facts whatsoever. It's not an insult, it's just true. My point all along is that you have no point.
Calipari's run in Kentucky had run its course. He didn't get fired for just not starting Reed and Dillingham. He hadn't been to a Final Four in a few yrs.
That was 100% the decision that got him run out of town. It was a move so irredeemably absurd, it would have gotten ANY coach run out of town. It was the equivalent of a coach having prime CP3 and prime Russell Westbrook and deciding to bring both of them off the bench for Nate Hinton and Jeenathan Williams. It was a "If you do something this unfathomably stupid, you better win" type move....and the results of that dumb ass move was getting beat in the quarterfinals in their conference tournament and packed up in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Again, literally no coach in the history of basketball survives that kind of decision with those results.
Per AI The team's performance in the NCAA Tournament in the final seasons was a major issue, marked by early exits in both 2022 (to Saint Peter's) and 2024 (to Oakland). Like I said, it wasn't solely because of not starting Reed and Dillingham. It had been building due to their numerous early exits over the last 3-4yrs. Reed was good but he was highly inconsistent. Good game, followed by a bad game.
The fact that you are attempting to justify one of the dumbest moves in basketball history just because you think it can help the narrative you have chosen to pretend to believe speaks for itself. When you have 2 guys who will go in the top 8 of the NBA draft, and you choose to play absolute scrubs instead and your team suffers as a result, that's a decision that overrides anything else you have ever done as a coach. As to your take on how he did in college, I'll consider that for what it's worth...given you clearly didn't watch those games.
