Reed has shown flashes on all levels of scoring. He can shoot from three, from the middle and finish at the rim. He can blow by his defender if one is taken away and he's getting better at passing the ball without turning it over. His defense is pretty good and still improving. Then he turns around today against the Jazz and isn't even looking for his shot. All I saw was him going out there focusing on being a point guard setting everyone up and ends filling up the boxscore and helped make the offense look smooth and in motion. He may not be Steph, but he has a good chance to get to that level someday.
Yeah, he needs to start and we need to figure out a way to add some scoring punch off the bench. Sengun Smith Durant Amen Reed
November officially in the books. Who has access to Reed's BPM for the whole month? I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to return stats on bbref by month.
BPM is such a perplexing stat to me, on one hand the top 10 each year are usually pretty reflective of the top 10 players in the league. On the other hand you look at guys like Durant, Jabari, Adams having pedestrian bpm makes it hard to take stock in it
For a guy like KD these stats simply do not reflect the degree of difficulty of his makes. That's a big flaw in these stats. You have a guy who is for all intends and purposes unguardable, can get his shot anytime against anyone, and score at a percentage as if he is wide open. That's hugely impactful on the floor and demoralizing for the opponent, but the stats only take the numbers. KD shooting 48% is a completely different animal than Holiday shooting 48%, for example, but statistically they are both 48%. Another player who is consistently underestimated by the stats is Dillon Brooks. He gets penalized too harshly for fouls committed and for turnovers, but the stats cannot measure the disruptive annoyance he exerts on opponents. Also, this thing called "irrational confidence" gets penalized, too, but in the flow of the game, at certain points, you need a guy who is a bit loco, to take what is a bad shot, and maybe ignite a team. The real game is just too rich for these stats...
