Young players need minutes to develop. Ime is in win now mode so those moments will be few and far between barring a FVV injury. it is what it is.
This. Detroit hounded him with three or four defensive players every time. They threw the sink and the whole kitchen at him because the other Rockets were just not worth guarding. In the real season, teams cannot obviously do that to Reed because they have to contend with KD, Alpi, and Bari at the same time. Reed has already shown how good he can be and was able to show that he had good ball handling skills despite the overwhelming pressure thrown at him by opponents. He has a lot to learn, but I think he is good enough that teams will have to pay attention to him, too, during the season. He looks good, and the Rockets are better for it.
15? he is far worse than Utah's Collier who is a 29th pick last year. Sun's Koby Brea, who is the 41th pick in this year's draft, is only good at shooting and can do nothing else. Sheppard is not even as good as him at this point.
When we drafted him, I asked "which position is he going to play?" I think that is still the pertinent question and the reason we're going to have to find a backup point guard even along side Holiday. Hopefully we have some kind of overpowering team this year like we did in 17-18 and we can get Reed lots of playing time up double digits against demoralized teams.
PG is the only position he can play. At 6'2 he cant play sg long term he is too small. He can do the role switcheroo with Amen cuz Amen is 6'7 but Reed still needs to be in the 1 spot guarding other 1s.
