He has played 7 total games this season after turning 21 years old this summer. Not sure anyone is expecting him to “save the team”. FWIW he is the youngest player on the team. This season he shooting 5 threes a night in 20 minutes while hitting 43% and averaging over 10 points a night. He has the best AST/TO ratio on the team. He has by and large done what he has been asked to do on offense. The season is early - he could stop shooting well or he could get up to 48-50% from 3. He needs to do better in the mid range and be more aggressive… but I don’t think criticizing his offense is all that valid right this moment. Defensively he has to get a stronger center of gravity and be more aggressive but that is a different issue.
I'm starting to think you're slightly slow . No one is falling for this ridiculous premise. A vast majority of players will have a better shooting % against the 10 worst defenses in the nba and worse % against the 10 best except for potentially a few statistical outliers when averaged out over a season and/or career. What the f*ck do you even bring this up for? Reed's best game last season was against the best defense in the nba OKC. Either you are trolling or you need to learn just a bit of statistical analysis because you sound ridiculous.
What I'd like to see from Reed likely happens in the offseason, I want him to improve his handles and not pick up the dribble at the first sign of a double team, which often leads to a turnover - Rather attack it and make them pay. That's probably the biggest difference between Cocaine Curry and the real thing - the handles.
Exactly. He needs to work on that. Once you are able to more often mitigate that it will lead to open shots for teammates and teams willing to do it less if it shows to be ineffective.
Agreed.....he needs to dribble EVERYWHERE until the ball feels like it is part of his normal gait. Shooting 42% overall and 43% from 3.......getting there. DD
Oh ok so his game against OKC isnt the outlier after 49 games of bad play? Maybe you are the slow one since you discussed outliers but didnt recognize it. My point is Reed's average is heavily skewed against bad teams. Although his shooting average is 43%, at the end of the day it hasnt mattered as he would go off against teams Rockets are beating anyway. OTH when we need him to contribute thats when he has a bad game. Thats been the trend so far. Actually you are the one who needs to learn statistical analysis since you just looked at Reed's average and crashed out.
I brought it up because his absolute best game last season was against the best defense in the nba. That's not an outlier that was simply his best game, which goes against your premise right off the top. Now you are posting that his % is good during times the Rockets are leading. Well that may just happen quite a lot this season. I suppose you can put that in your back pocket and bring out that excuse constantly for the duration. I still do not know if you are trolling with saying this non-sensical sh*t. Or you are just an actual dum dum. Regardless I'll let the rest of Clutchfans respond to your crap. I'm done. Peace
Do you know what outliers mean? They break the "premise" thats why they are called outliers. Didnt we just play OKC this season? How did he do? Oh wait he cost us the game. Its pretty clear you don't know what you are talking about. Dont mention terms if you don't understand what they mean. Peace.
Reed needs to hit his middies. He can get past his defender with a screen. But once he gets inside the 3pt line, he doesn't know what to do. Should I drive to the basket? No, there are giants lurking there! Should I kick out to an open teammate? Maybe. (He did make a few good skip passes. But his teammates missed. Otherwise he'd have a couple more assists.) Should I shoot? Yes, oh but too late. I hesitated too long. And dang, I picked up the dribbles. Now I'm stuck! He should just shoot without hesitation whenever he gets to an open spot.
Yes, you comical idiot. Outliers are not a hard concept. Ive taken 4 stats classes, 2 of them at the graduate level, as I have an MBA. I've used more accounting in jobs but statistics as well. I've already said that I wasn't referring to that game the way you were. So it IS NOT an outlier in regards to how i mentioned it. I was referring to it as his best game last season, which came against the best defense. Which again was referring to you saying he pumps his %'s against bad defenses. If Reed Sheppard, Ime Udoka, and Stone read the last several posts between us they would all 3 laugh their asses off at you.
You need to get a life and stop hating on a player for shooting good 3 point percentage when you were saying that he's not a good shooter. Now that he is a good shooter you're finding other ways to knock on his shooting. It's pathetic dude. This is one of our young up and coming guys that you just can't help your self but hate.
The constant Reed hate from one forum member is getting old. At this point he is nothing but a troll. Trolls go on my ignore list.
Offensively I think he's set for this season now that it's becoming clear Amen can hold down the PG position when we don't put double bigs on the floor. On offense all that's missing is speed of thought. He's a second late on everything. That's exactly the kind of thing that reliably improves with a modest number of minutes. He'll stop picking up his dribble and be more decisive with the middie. On defense half the issue is lack of experience and the other half is just bulk. The bulk will have to wait but the defensive positioning will also gradually improve this season. For less than 10 games into the season I'm happy with his progress. At worst this is forcing Ime to play a shooter so it's a win-win for us.
You really have an MBA? Outliers are not a tough concept to understand yet you are still using the outlier to disprove my premise? D'oh. Premise: He pumps his stat against bad defenses MBA: He had his best game against OKC last year which disproves your premise. You know we had match again vs OKC right? How did Reed perform? In fact Reed has already had 5 games vs OKC in his career, only one where he played well. In statistics we call that an outlier. Oh but wait you arent using that as an outlier, you are just saying he had that one great game to disprove the trend that he only pumps his stats vs bad teams despite the fact that that game was literally an outlier. This is literally like trying to argue Corey Brewer is an amazing scorer cuz he scored 50 that one time. I'm not using it as an outlier, thats just his best game which he also scored 50 https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/reed-shepard-stats-vs-okc Look in the mirror bro. Bragging you have an MBA (I have one too) and then not using outliers properly. Something about Reed bias makes people dumb.
