Still trying to get people to laugh at you i see... No one is actually this stupid in real life, so you're clearly just trolling
Reed can't see over defenses....watch him he has to jump up to pass a lot of times........if you guys are stuck on the fact that he's white then it should have been Clingan as the pick.......I think he could have helped the team this year........we should have picked the guy for NOW and not later on.
You're the one who looks like he is trolling, tell me again all the crap you were claiming about Sheppard predraft? It's funny you are always so condescending when you are virtually wrong on every prediction you have made. Truly Dunning Kruger syndrome in full effect. If I was the one who hyped up Sheppard and he turned out this bad I'd be so embarrassed. And this after I said Jalen Green was gonna be Corey Brewer and Amen Thompson would bust because he can't shoot? Bruh. It makes me laugh you are always so critical of Green but can't say even one bad thing about Sheppard now cuz everytime you criticize him you are slapping your own face. Classic!
I agree to an extent I'm not a big fan of "hey these guys who turned out to be really good had similar bad numbers at this point in their careers so there's never any reason to worry." But I also think it's instructive to not get too worked up about game stats at this point in someone's career. Reed is 19/68 from 3 right now. If he'd hit 7 more he's a 38% three point shooter and there's probably a lot less consternation on the board about him. You can't just assume that's going to happen but it's a window into how much variance there can be at this point. It's kind of up to you to decide if you are seeing reason for optimism, concern, or somewhere in between based on how he's playing beyond his raw numbers. I'm not all that concerned at this point based on what I'm seeing with my eyes. Others have differing opinions and they may be right, but I also tend to notice that some of the biggest "Reed is a bust" posters are the same folks who were saying obviously incorrect things about him before the draft like that he's a poor athlete, etc.
That’s the thing, Reed’s drop-off from Summer League to Day 1 of the NBA proper is tremendous. No one just loses all their skills in a couple of weeks. This is 100% an issue in his head that can only be fixed with a period of strong performance in the G-League. This 10-min per game (or less depending on his first few possessions) on a contender arrangement is not going to help someone who is already deathly afraid of making mistakes. Especially when you consider he’s a 20-year-old rookie and we already have a better backup right now in Holiday. Just don’t get Ime on this one. He’s already shown he has no problems playing FVV 500min per game so why persist with Reed? Reed must be shooting 100% or something in practice.
Kid... Sheppard hasn't "turned out" one way or the other, he's 344 minutes into his career. The reason it's obvious you are trolling is because you are the moron that has been telling everyone we have to wait a few decades to judge your bit Jalen.... yet you judge Sheppard a bust after token minutes in his rookie season... and you base that judgement 100% on his 3 ball not falling in a tiny sample. He hits 6 or more shots all season total and he's shooting north of 38% from 3... and that's the ONLY thing he's struggled with. His defense is very solid for a point guard and he's flashed passing upside despite everyone else always dominating the ball. In your defense, you are probably too dumb to recognize most of that, but the over the top nature of you showing your ass gives away the fact that you are intentionally trolling. You were even dumb enough to say he has bad shot mechanics... you simply can't be taken seriously when it comes to basketball conversations
Great points, and I agree with all this. You made your own case for being optimistic about Reed, and I think this is a lot more compelling than "Steve Nash also averaged 3/1/1 in his rookie year", which does nothing for me.
The point of those comparisons is not that this kid will turn out like them. The point is that there are plenty of examples that players who struggled early turned out to be pretty good therefore we should not write out someone this early in his career no matter how bad he may look.
Sheppard was never going to get serious minutes for this team unless he lit it up from the beginning (which you absolutely were adamant about). You called me all kinds of names for suggesting that your new project would have to wait and was not a pg. Now you are preaching patience. He still has a chance to be good, but he belongs in RGV. Amen needs more minutes, Cam needs more minutes. Sheppard is not ready and needs to be getting his confidence in the G-League. It doesn't mean he's a bust, it means he is a typical rookie that would have been drafted as a late lottery pick in almost any other draft.
The ONLY reason he's not getting more regular minutes is that Ime is an incompetent coach when it comes to rotations.... we just lost a game over that exact thing. I know you desperately want Amen to be a point guard despite it not being a natural fit at all...i mean who doesnt love Amen's 2.1 assists to 1.9 turnovers! That said, you're going to look foolish if you keep going down this path with the mindless Jalen fanboi
As a guy who really liked Reed in this draft (and still likes him) and thought that the last thing we had to worry about translating to the NBA was his shooting.... I'd love to see him in RGV for a month. Floor minutes and confidence. He serves no purpose on the Rox at the moment.
I'm withholding judgement, but it wouldn't surprise me to see he's a big part of a trade package. He's so tiny out there.
You're the one doubling down on "he missed 6 more shots this season than I wanted, thus bust", it's just really dumb my guy. I do honestly wonder if a lot of you guys even watch basketball because I just don't see how anyone could watch basketball for more than a few years and have some of these really brain neutral hot takes. Anyway, when you end up realizing that you made yourself look like a fool, I probably won't force you to admit it.
Find one post where I said he is a bust. You were wrong about Sheppard making an impact this year. Just admit it. Then you can relax and go back to making every thread about your "jalen, I told you so" trolling.
The year isn't over my guy. Amen looked worse this time his rookie season.....does that mean he never made an impact his rookie season? Again, just a little bit of sanity would go a long way to help you guys out.
Send Reed down to the G League his 0 for 8 is a plea for help. T Only thing I can think of that in practice scrimmages he shows some potential for shooting at least.
I was never that high on him to begin with. The odds of an undersized, white American player becoming a star aren’t good. He’ll be fine as long as you lower your expectations. Best case scenario, he’ll develop into someone like Fred VanVleet.
