He shot poorly. But, at least he played the way he needs to play. He got into the paint and was more aggressive. He just needs to make those shots. He should have played far more games in the G league last year.
He wasn't good last night overall. However, I actually liked some of the things I saw. For maybe the first time I've noticed, he stopped a drive with his feet and contact with a driver. The offense flowed better when he initiated for the most part. He hit his threes. Of course, there's the bad too. He was slow to rotate, or missed defensive rotations. He bricked everything he attempted inside the 3 point line. He had a couple stupid turnovers. At this point, I'm open to trading him, but I think we won't have a real idea of the market until further into the season. If Boston keeps losing, White or Pritchard could be gettable. That said, let's see if he can figure things out in the meantime.
He was also 27% from the field. You can't really claim that as an overall efficient game. He was ****.
He looked much better on offense. Much more confident and aggressive. I think if he can continue to grow offensively, he will be a competent role playing guard off the bench, which was the intention for him this year. As I have said before, FVV’s loss is going to hurt us on the defensive side of the ball the most. I’ll get flamed for it, but we are missing Jalen’s defense as well. Reed’s inability on that side of the ball is the primary reason Adams is getting so many minutes and why we are running so much zone. Playing Adams and Sengun together weakens both our center and PF position defensively and affects our defensive rebounding horribly. Add in Reed and you have 3 weak defensive players in place of FVV, Dillon, and Jalen. Our offense was terrible last year with FVV. His absence is not the reason we are struggling offensively this year. Ime needs to start Okogie and lean on our lengthy players. Okogie should start and Adams should play 10-15 minutes when Sengun is not on the floor. Our offense may continue to struggle for a while until we get in sync, but our defense should vastly improve until we can solve our SG problem.
Reed's a bit like Jalen Green except for his "good" games are merely average ones where he didn't completely **** the bed. At least Jalen would throw a star performance out every now and again and take games over.
I was at the game yesterday, and he looks like a little boy compared to every one else on the court…a little boy playing against grown men teams actively try to go at his defense, and he doesn’t even look NBA caliber at anything on offense that isn’t a spot up three y’all will literally praise him because he managed to get a floater off…not that he got it off and made it, just that he was able to attempt it y’all will praise him because he didn’t pick up his dribble at halfcourt y’all treat him like a Make A Wish kid
I’m not a big fan, but he got into the lane multiple times yesterday. He probably will convert some of those when he gets comfortable. He is constantly hunted on defense for good reason. I voted to start him to give him a chance, but after seeing him on defense, he needs to go back to the bench and slowly inserted into the rotation. We will be much better off with Okogie and Tate. I don’t see much other than a sharp shooting role player off the bench if that.
JD needs to be playing in front of him. We drafted 3 scrubs back to back in the first round: Jalen, Bari, and Reed.
Fresh day, fresh outlook. Kid's not the reason we won't win a chip. We have months + a trove of assets to bring in a better guard that's ready now....if Stone/Ime/Tilman don't chose that route then it's on them via team construction. That said. The kid's offensive execution, awareness, and simple fundamentals are exceptionally poor. And his defense is worse. You wouldn't give the 12th man on the bench 6th man minutes - would you? Neither would I. It seems like there's some wierd 'well we can't coach it out of him so lets let him play himself out of it.' And for as much as I'm frustrated w/ coaching and mgmt it doesn't do Reed any favors to grade on a sliding scale. He was the 3rd pick and has been in the league for over a year. Things I'm reading this morning like he's "getting to the paint" just make me SMH. Defenses in this league try to take away high percentage/efficiency options and they give you low percentage/efficiency options. I'm not at all impressed that he keeps being forced in to a jump stop and pivot-foot macarena routine at the FT line. Y'all have watched enough ball to know this right? All the while I hope I'm wrong but c'mon man. The same jumpstop leading to poor shots and a complete standstill on offense is not a flex.
He showed progression in the last game, but he's still not there yet. His defense was solid, he was making his 3's, he was finding ways to get by guys and get his shot off....he just wasn't making them. Typical of what you'd expect from a rookie with around 15 games worth of playing time. As chemistry develops, everything will be fine, especially with him hitting 45% of his 3's on the season.
His bball is is great, his shooting is great, his D is improving, he just needs time. This losing is more on a lack of coaching and playing the right combo of players than any one player. DD
He is very young. He would be a junior in college this year. Time will tell, but it is too early to give up on him.
He shot poorly on runners and other 2's, he shot exceptionally well from 3. There's honestly nothing he could have learned in the G league, but he should have gotten more minutes at the NBA level last season so he could have gotten these rookie hiccups out of the way then. I think those missed floaters will come with time as he gets more and more comfortable getting that shot off. I'm still on the "give him 20 games before the kneejerk reaction" bandwagon.
I didn't claim he had an efficient game, just that some of those runners were shots he could have hit. The takeaway is Reed was clearly better in the second game, not that he was good.
You can't really compare him to Green because Green plays lots of games and lots of minutes. Reed is only beginning, very small sample size. I think people are kneejerking after two games. The whole GARM is filled with hysterical negativity about pretty much every player/ This guy is a bust! Trade that guy! That guy is trash! Fire that coach! Have you given up on him? Like I said elsewhere a couple of days earlier. When a player had a bad game or two, all the haters come out of their lair and gloat "I told you so!" Can we just calm down and watch a few more games before giving up on anybody?
It's good that he was able to get those shots, he just needs to get comfortable enough doing it that he starts making them. That's something that comes with playing time. If he gets legitimate playing time and is still struggling with the same stuff a year from now, I'll be out on him.
I mean, I think it's more that you can't compare him to Green because he's nowhere near as good. If he was he'd have got a lot more minutes, like Green did under Ime.
