You may be right, but I think the Spurs might eventually trade Castle because they have Dylan Harper, who is going to be far better than both guys.
He was banned for posting political BS in the GARM one too many times after doing it multiple times over the years.
Terrible comp...Castle is a better player than Okogie. Funny thing is most posters on here were mad at the Okogie signing, but since he's shooting at a decent rate now everyone is a fan! Okogie is a career 30% from three so history shows he'll come back to Earth. I'm a fan of Okogie's defense, but he's offensively limited...Castle has a high ceiling who will only get better as his career progresses.
From looking at the game last night, I thought Cam Spencer was the direct correlation of Reed Sheppard, only that Memphis drafted him with the 53rd pick in Rnd 2. Was 2024 a WEAK DRAFT? Yes, Im sure we all can agree. However, shouldn't Stone had moved out, rather than forcing it by drafting Reed? Yes! Stone said, Reed was the best player in that draft and that he had the possibility of being a star. Nearly 2yrs in, I just don’t see it! Possibly 6th man off the bench or low end starter, yes but star, no!
He might be the person with the least functional vertical ever, that might be his "max" (bullshit) but he doesn't get close to that 99.99999999% of the time so it's irrelevant. FYI, you're claiming he has 2 inches lower vertical than Ja Morant, who he's supposed to be the same height as (but also looked noticeably shorter than last night.) For all of the claims of "tHe DraFt ComBinE MeAsuReMenTs aRe FlaWleSS" it just doesn't add up at all. Tiny little midget with nothing resembling impressive hops in any game he's played in the league. He's the least explosive "explosive player" I've ever seen.
Definitely not this year. Trading a playing on a rookie contract is pretty dumb unless they are a failure (see Cam). I suspect Castle will be traded (maybe SnT) and not extended when his contract comes up because I'm projecting Dylan Harper to become a superstar. He's already become one of my favorite players in the NBA to watch.
Reed is the weak link right now but Ime almost certainly could choose to not play him if that’s what he thought was best. Among our guards Reed is the best ball handler, passer, and shooter so it makes sense to give him a chance to develop vs maybe getting slightly better minutes right now with Holiday. Had FVV not gotten hurt this might be a harder call to give him these minutes.
I agree with this but these are also wide open shots he is hitting. I feel like on previous teams he might not have been as open. Right now our offense is number 1 and teams are deliberately double teaming KD and Sengun.
"Not that bad" isn't a disappointment compared to the generational shooter he was supposed to be? He's like the shooter version of Jalen Green but without the hops, effort on defense or highlights. Here's his games so far: Game 1 27.3% from 2, 28.6% from 3 Game 2 27.3% from 2, 75% from 3 Game 3 54.5% from 2, 42.9% from 3 Game 4 28.6% from 2, 00.0% from 3 Game 5 66.7% from 2, 80% from 3 Game 1 28.6% from 2, 25% from 3 Game 1 71.4% from 2, 50% from 3 Is that really "not that bad" for a generational shooter? He's shooting less than 30% from the field in more than half of his games, and has just as many absolute disaster games from 3 as he does excellent ones. Jalen actually even had a better hit rate on good numbers than Reed too, and he's a big ol bust. I supported the last fool's gold bust who had significantly more ability and potential as a basketball player. I'm hardly going to back the midget, shittier version until he starts actually playing like a good player.
I don't think Reed is the best ballhandler and passer but best 3pt, yes. I think Ime has to give Reed minutes. The decision to draft him was a joint decision between Ime and Stone, at least thats what we were told. So, yes, he has to play him. This way, the team improves their asset for future dealings.
Not really. His shooting is trending upward so his career average is not reflective. In addition, his FT% is perfectly correlating with that upward trend as well. There's literally no stronger sign that points to an improved jumper than those two things being true. In his last 5 seasons (massive sample size), he's shooting 34%. It would make total sense for his career stats if he shot 36-37% this season for example.
Play defense. Dribble penetration and kick outs. You're assuming he's a finished product. Reed was a good defender in college and was graded as scouts to be a plus defender. Castle has never been a good shooter or efficient scorer.
Lol that was a good one with "midget". I hope Reed plays better so we can increase his trade value. Unless he learns how to draw a charge, Reed will continue to be a liability on defense
Reed does pump up his stats this year. Last year he was bad no matter who he played as evidenced by his averages. Reed is not a career bad team stat pumper, that's just his trend this year. Btw you don't own the word "outlier" I don't give a crap that you used it, I used outlier because you are somehow using Reed's career game to disprove the notion he pumps his stats against bad teams. Ok Reed went off against a good team once last year. And? Oh ok he had 20 vs Clippers who were also a pretty good team. And? How many games did he play again last year? LOL. It's an outlier in the sense he scored 22 pts but his average is 4. Why is that not an outlier? It's an outlier performance since he played 52 games and only played well in like 3-4. He played OKC 5 times already and only played well in that game, again showing that is an outlier since his other games didnt even break 10. The huge data set is 52 games of 4 pt average and the outliers are the 3-4 good games he had. Again I wasn't saying Reed is a career stat pumper since last year his stats were bad no matter what. You are somehow using the argument that he sucked ass so much last year to disprove my point that he is a stat pumper. You really think you got me with that one lol. You really have an MBA? ok. Still don't know what an outlier is.
Castle is stat padding like Jalen... he's just on a heater. I get people like to call him a good defender when their defense is bad without victor on the floor. I guess his good defense just has no impact at all. I might trust reed to run the offense by the end of the year or next year. If you claim castle can suddenly shoot, then based on the same sample size he's the most turnover prone player in nba history.
I genuinely consider the "6'3" he was touted as pre-draft for more egregious than when they said Cade was 6'8 or Jalen was 6'6. If Antman's 6'4 then Jalen's taller so he can't be 6'4 too. But Ja's 6'2 (which looks about right if Ant was 6'4 and Jalen was 6'5) and he looked taller than Reed tbh. Reed looks absolutely tiny on the court, 6'2 players just don't look as small as he does at all. He's a basketball Hobbit. Ballbo Baggins.
I mean, we know Reed’s exact height. 6’1.75”. So over 6’2” in shoes. By the way, FVV was measured as 5’11” at the combine.
Okogie has a higher career 3pt% than Castle. So Castle will come back down to earth, right? Castle has a negative vorp. Okogie has a positive vorp. Castle is a negative dbpm while Okogie has a positive one. Okogie is less than 1% lower efg%. Okogie has .003 higher ts%. Castle has double the turnovers. Yeah, Castle has a higher usage rate, which explains why he doesn't win much. When bad players have the ball more it leads to bad results. Castle is 38-50 in his career. Grades out as a journeymen type if he can improve his shooting...
