Reed Sheppard Leads the 16 Point Rockets Comeback vs Spurs! 11PTS in the 4th!

His line might not be his best, but I believe this is the best all-around game of his career. He played good defense, shot 40% from 3, and played confidently all night. I think an injury has bailed Ime out once again forcing him to abandon his beloved 2 big BS. Even when we were losing the ball was moving, the spacing was better, and there was more motion in the offense. Hopefully, we can build on this. Sure helps when Durant is facilitating more instead of feeling like he has to do it all. My takes on this game:

Reed - best game of his career. Don’t care if he starts, but he should be out of the dog house the rest of the year.
Amen- some really bad turnovers trying to play too fast. Fabulous defense and rebounding as usual. Looks for Reed more than anyone on the team. Is regularly making his middies and floaters.
Sengun - Looks like he is playing hurt to me or needs a rest. Really bad defensively. Stuck with it and showed a lot of heart coming down the stretch. Getting his passing eye back.
Durant - Didn’t force it as much and hit his threes. Like this role for him. Does not present himself well to receive passes and is lazy with his passes at times, but pleased that he was willing to defer to the hot hand tonight.
Jabari - focused. His bad stretch seems to have ignited a fire in him. When he is shooting well we win. Needs to come up with a FT routine where he doesn’t think about it so long.
Capella - His best game of the season and was played appropriate minutes for a backup center.
Okogie - meh, tonight, but the effort is always there.
Ime - Didn’t f*ck it up. Played a traditional rotation and called timeouts appropriately.

 

been saying this all year.

DD

 

I've noticed this tonight yeah, feels like he dribbles the ball way too much all while staring at the rim. For someone that hits contested mid range jumpers he should not be 70% FT shooter, this dude should be a 90% FT shooter, same for Reed who isn't for whatever reason.

 

Reed was great, especially in the 4th. That full court TD pass to Durant was something else.

 

Ugh I called it an early night after the first. I didn’t think we would’ve been able to pull it out.

 

Imagine how many more games we would have won with Reed in to balance the lineup and shooting instead of watching 4 non-shooters and Durant collapse time and time again.

So so many blown games due to one man's stubborness.

DD

 

adams injury shouldn't be a blessing to us but it will be. it will bail out Ime's awful awful awful offensive coaching.

 

He was clogging the lane, and please notice most of that comeback last night came with Alpi on the bench too......

We finally have the ability to punish teams by going small for periods of time with our 3pt shooting, but for whatever reason, Ime ignored it.....a lot of us have been SCREAMING from the hilltops that this is the way.....because...it is.....

DD

 

Need to run D'antoni offense when Reed is in the game