Motherf***ers really debating whether this dude is a bust 9 games into the season averaging <10 mins on a deep roster? Classic CF BBS.
Steph Curry, the greatest shooter ever, shot 35% in summer league and through his first 22 games. Reggie Miller had his worst season as a rookie (35%). Durant and Allan Houston were both under 30% as rookies. Dirk 21%, Price 33% I can find a lot of other great college shooters, and great NBA shooters, that didn't light it up immediately, or at all, in their rookie season. There's a lot going on in that transition (nerves, fatigue, talent adjustment). There will be a time to start being worried, but I'm gonna need a much, much larger sample before I start having real concern that he's not gonna be a great NBA shooter. That of course won't stop the chicken littles, but that's my feeling on the matter.
I noticed that once the news came out that reed has a deal with Nike he ate cams minutes. Is Nike still running the league?
He's doing things he's comfortable doing within his scope of practice. He makes consistent iq plays that show a sneak peak of the future. When FVV goes into sabotage mode, you immediately put Reed to calm that ****.
I didn't say he would be efficient. I just said it would calm down 90% of people who live and die by "how many points did he score?" I do believe he would be averaging 20 on the Wizards. Yes, more than Poole and Kuzma. People just don't seem to understand you can have an incredible rookie who doesn't deserve many minutes on a winning team.
I think Reed looks amazing in his role, considering what we need from him now. One day down the line, we will need him to play 25 minutes, be above average efficient offensively and use his hands and awareness to do balance physical limitations. Personally, when I see him playing, I already see that. We just have the luxury of bringing him along slowly. In 2 years, our “creative force” on offense should include Alperen Sengun, Jalen Green, Reed Sheppard and Amen Thompson. That should be enough.
That lineup with Jabari. Along with Tari having 35 minutes off the bench would be fun to watch. I hope it gets a chance to play out.
As much as I enjoy watching Reed play, I think a few games with the Vipers would benefit him greatly. He would feel no pressure to be "the good guy," or "the rook." He would feel no pressure to avoid hurting the Rockets' chances for a win -- he could work to get his shot back, and just let it fly. On the big team he looks so fearful of an empty trip that he doesn't even want to shoot. When he comes off a screen you can almost see him thinking through the geometry of quicker, longer defenders, and by then it's too late. At RGV he could put up 25 shots a game. It would also make the RGV stint a little more palatable for Cam.
Ok that's fair, we can disagree. I've yet to see Reed manufacture his own shot or show any consistency getting to the rim as 0 FTA in 2 games worth of minutes would validate. I'm sure he'd get some easy buckets in garbage time. It wouldn't be 20. Happy to disagree and move on.
My beef has always been with the organization for allowing themselves to be bullied into picking a project at #3. Reed was and is not a top 3 pick. There are players well into the teens that will have better careers than Reed. You Reedlings are going to find that out the hard way.
I think the gripe is that they lucked out into being able to pick the 3rd pick...... But that pick should have been the 3rd or 4th pick in the 2025 or 2026 pick to begin with. I take Edgecomb, Dylan Harper, Cameron Boozer over Reed any day. I would be crazy not to.
That is about the most defeated and hopeless I've ever heard a #3 pick in a draft be described as after his first few games... "maybe one day down the road, he'll ... I dunno ... hit a bucket or two off the bench... maybe be a bit mediocre in efficiency... hell, I don't know. Whatever. We're all gonna die anyway." lol.
Agreed. The very harsh judgement on Reed after 8 games by some here is so silly. For whatever reason, they clearly dislike him and are triggered by the praise he gets from others.
Reed's everyone's guy on the Rockets squad. They love him. You can tell he gets a lot of respect from his teammates.
There's really no proof to this since not everyone has the option to do a consolidation trade. I remember GSw refusing to trade Klay for Kobe and Rockets refusing to trade Sengun for Brandon Ingram. Obviously those refusals worked out great. Which other consolidation trade refusal didn't work out? What I've seen is the teams win either do so thru homegrown talent (GSW, Celtics, Nuggets) or they convince someone to sign with them thru free agency (Lebron, KD). OTH we've seen potentially great teams get royally screwed by doing these consolidation trades. Case in point would be Clippers for PG or Wolves for Gobert or even Clippers trade for Cp3. It's just not worth it because if the star is really good he wouldn't be up for sale. If you wanna get a top star to choose you, having a barebones team isn't attractive why did Kawhi refuse to join Lebron? Cuz there's only Lebron, AD and scrubs there at the time. We have the kind of quality and depth to attract a superstar in free agency if that is really needed. Or maybe one of our guys become a superstar themselves. Basically we have 2/3 options available but if we do a consolidation trade that's just 1/3 with low odds. The only caveat is you find some unproven guy and trade for him like James Harden or AD. That's the other option. But trading for known superstars at a premium is almost always a losing deal.
