Castle is not a gravity creator at this juncture in his career, but where in what I wrote did I say that Wemby doesn't factor in? He hits the open shots at a decent clip and plays elite defense. Additionally he gets to the rim. His turnovers are an issue and he's allowed to make mistakes. Reed's size is not going to change and for Reed to be a legit rotational player he needs to have an elite skill. His shooting is not quite to that level yet but it could be. Castle will likely make multiple all star games and maybe as soon as next season and this is partly due to playing with Wemby. Reed will likely be the 7th man and playing off the bench next year.
Reed’s biggest problem is his handle. Reed has middie handles. If the handles don’t improve a lot he’s a bust. It’s as simple as that. You don’t draft undersized guards without really good handles. Reed can shoot, but if he can’t get his own shot, he’s a role player off the bench. That’s it. Need to see big improvement in the handles next season. I’m very disappointed in rockets scouting. They seem to ignore the handles on all of their draft picks. This has become a trend. A freaking scary trend. It’s why our team can’t dribble. It’s why we are so overly reliant on Fred, which is laughable.
Dude castle hasn't even taken 100 3s in the playoffs. It's not a small size, it's a teeny tiny meaningless sample size and all other data suggests it's certainly a fluke.
Reed took 142 his rookie season to Castle's 94 in the playoffs. Castle, like i said, is not the better shooter. Castle, like i said, is the better player. Would Reed be better in San Antonio? Probably. Would Castle be worse in Houston? probably. Right now they aren't even close as players, time will tell but you are a degrading weirdo.
I think Reed will be fine btw. I didn't mean to come off as a troll I just cannot stand this front office passing on players because of KPJ, Christian Wood, FVV and Jalen Green. This most recent article is just another example of how inept the organization is. Stone is in over his head and there's no one to check him. This team needs to bring in a strong president of operations more than any of us can imagine. I listened to portions of Presti's end of season press conference and I was incredibly jealous that this franchise is what it is.
Reed's entire rookie season i railed against people who were saying he can't shoot based on some completely miniscule, meaningless sample. Even that tiny sample (which clearly this season was proved to have been meaningless) was over 50% more than castle's playoffs. Reed had 5 playoff games this season, to use THAT as some sort of data is pure trolling and nothing more, and i will always take it as trolling, because it simply can't be anything else. I'm not a stone fan, i don't think he's particularly good, but i think in the long run reed over castle will end up being good.
How silly do you have to be to use a couple game aggregate during a hodgepodge lakes series where everybody was running around like a headless chicken oh that’s right, let’s ignore the 82 games before that. Yup. Let’s cherry pick out argument that way outside of playing lower seed teams castle has not played well in the playoffs even
Yea pulling Reed's playoff numbers was a bit tongue in cheek, agreed. I hope Reed ends up the better player and there is a 5% he hits his ceiling and that could end up being an all star level guy.
Good chance castle will be the better player I don’t understand why people are acting like he’s Kawhi though. If we drafted him he would have been another Marcus morris imo with development here
How would castle play here? You could NEVER run out castle/amen/alpi or castle/amen/adams because you simply can't play 3 non shooters. He's so much worse around the rim then Amen is that it wouldn't make sense to really give him the ball when Amen is on the court, and they would really kill each other's spacing.
Castle/Harper/Fox are all three guards who cannot shoot very well and Mitch Johnson found their minutes. I'm 100% of the mindset you take the best player available in the draft especially top 5 and figure out the fit later. I'm not sure how good Castle can be, but I agree, he would definitely be worse here. Reed may be averaging 20PPG on 50/40/90 in SA right now and we would be mad at that. Wemby being on the court opens up a lot of room for other player's flaws to be a nonfactor.
SA likes to play defense and have players that can drive to the hoop. Reed would hardly see the court.
I can check later but I’m pretty sure those 3 almost never played together. My point is what would people be saying if the rockets drafted castle? Why did stone draft ANOTHER non shooter??? Stone needs to be fired, why did he reach for this guy and not go BPA????? This guy is just a crappy Amen, what a stupid pick!!!
