Reed does more than just shoot threes. For volume, difficulty, and accuracy, no one on the team comes close to Reed in all aspects of three-point shooting. Durant could, but he loves his mid-range shoots. Whether you are a hater or not, I don't really care. I just see opinions like Okogie should start over Reed despite Ime giving the starting lineup with Okogie about a month of sucking before removing him as biased. Take this however you want, but I think you so want Amen to be a great heliocentric PG that you are biased against anyone who has any playmaking from a perimeter position, as they may take some reps from Amen. You seem to have a more positive opinion on Okogie and JSJ than Reed, Tari, and Durant. Maybe Reed plays like he has over the last 6 games, and I am wrong. I can see Tari over Reed arguments. Okogie? That does not look objective to me as Okogie rarely shoots threes and doesn't pull the defender away from the basket. With Amen, and Sengun, that just wasn't working.
Context will matter a lot. He's honestly too skinny, the weight and strength he's at right now is that he should've entered with as a rookie. He could be a tier below generational this season and make that jump in a year. I know 38% would not be ideal but what if it's at an extremely high volume for his minutes? I think that's a major step in the direction of a generational shooter. A lot of his defensive issues will be alleviated once he puts on that muscle too. Will just take a little time. I think it's pretty clear he's not a Luke Kennard. Even after this slump this guy has elite pull up 3pt shooting efficiency for his age. He takes a lot of them per minute. There's hope there.
You made a lot of good points otherwise. Not to ignore them, but zeroing in, yeah, I can see the Giannis-Sengun angle (with whatever other contracts must be included). But I don't think it would happen anyway----not because the Bucks are pretending to pursue high-dollar players to appease Giannis ("golly, G, we tried and, shucks!, didn't happen!"), but because such trades tend to fall through (especially when both players will [likely] make the All Star team)
Maybe the bad road stretch got Ime to panic a bit. We are more than 40% of the season, the rotation should be more consistent now. I don't mind him to experiment a bit. but we can't just play musical chairs going into the second half of the season. Other than injury induced shuffles, a steady rotation helps build the chemistry needed for the playoffs.
Ime has been doing this for years, makes it about him, and not the team. Reed should be starting, or if not, first off the bench as a 6th man. Trade one of Tari or DFS - they are redundant and you can't pay em both. Play JD some if Reed struggles......he is our best pure PG. MOVE KD DOWN THE PECKING ORDER - he can't lead, is a bad leader and sucks at initiating the ONLY thing he is good at anymore is scoring, let him focus on that. Sengun is the hub, SENHUB - make it so. DD
You need to take a look at the record during okogies starting stint. Offensive stats were better and winning %. I don’t think okogie is a better player or starter long term, but for this team this season yes. I do believe Amen is the long term pg, but I don’t want Sheppard to suck because of that opinion. I think if they ever become our starting backcourt they will share on ball duties.
You don't make a jump to generational, you just are. It's a cut above, even non generational excellent shooters like JJ Redick who struggled in his early career had his first 2 seasons at 38% then 40% Generational means "this talent stands out ABOVE the rest of his generation," Steph Curry is a generational shooter. Reed's not even the best 3pt shooter in his draft class, nevermind his generation.
I don't believe that at all. Klay got much better as a pull up shooter in the early parts of his career. I think no one is Steph Curry and Reed is flashing generation shooter potential (below Curry level).
You are extrapolating all of reeds development based on the prior 10 games, especially when he only played garbage time 1st year If you did a subgroup analysis etc you would find that he is a fantastic 3pt shooter and amongst the best in the NBA at what people considered to be his baseline. We have all aconowledged he is in a slump and playing off. To form definitive conclusions based on this is shortsighted. similarly, looking at his November and early December #s people would argue he is outplaying curry when he was in a similar position which is also misleading answer: wait until the end of year before definitive conclusions
Reed Sheppard is the reason I scoff at most of these publicly available defensive metrics they’ll tell you Reed Sheppard has a +1.6 DBPM…doesn’t matter because this dude gets cooked all game if you can’t stay in front of known super athlete Ajay Mitchell off the dribble, you’re a traffic cone I’ve seen this dude get blown by by Lu Dort
If you want reed to succeed here we need a rim protector... without one will look like trae young on defense...
I already know who Reed is but i genuinely believe he won’t be succeeding under Ime. Both are already in broken relationship
poor body language, he does not want to be out there and it shows. Well, I doubt anybody does No excuse for Reed's piss poor play but I agree he needs to be going to a new team for both sides.
If teams are offering a lot for him, I’m listening to those offers. Struggling to see it with him and I was a Reed advocate up until the last few weeks.
https://www.nba.com/stats/players/opponent?TeamID=1610612745&dir=D&sort=OPP_FG_PCT I know it looks bad when Reed gets abused on defense, but this is why I question if people are actually watching and really paying attention.
Ime stinks but Reed needs to suck it up and stop playing like a little puss out there. Stay in front of your man, drive hard to the basket, and for f**k sakes shoot the damn ball.
Truth is Sengun and Jabari is getting abused as well. There’s literally Adam, Sengun, Jabari and Reed which opponent can 1v1 and score at will. We’re talking about team made Tre Jones looked like better player than SGA
