As bad as Reed was last night…we almost pulled it off. So keep trotting him out there since the whole team is an embarrassment right?
I understand that the sample size is small (his first season is totally a waste becoz of Udoka), and this series is his first real Playoff experience....so, certain lessons have to be learned... However, right now, I am becoming more skeptical about his future given that some of his limitations are just too obvious and not easy to overcome with. If the return is ok, I am fine with trading him. Otherwise, let's give him another year to see. BTW, I really want to see how Reed performs under a competent coach who can design a good (or even average) offense system, but I doubt that will happen next season.
He is too much of a liability defensively and too inconsistently offensively to ever make him a net positive player over the course of a season. Will a better coach really be able to address those liabilities? I say try to trade him for some assets. You won't get equal return but sunk cost is sunk cost
Does he need a better handle? Absolutely. But I will push back on the 'initiate sets' comment. We don't run a complicated offense. We run pick and roll almost exclusively without KD. With KD it's heavy on the screen and KD posting up at the elbow or 3pt line to receive the ball. It's very redundant and eventually teams start to counter with blitzes and when you don't have the personnel to help alleviate those blitzes and making them pay (shooters in the corner), there's only so much that action can gain. But yes, he absolutely needs to get better at navigating the pick and roll. Something that typically comes with experience. I think you have a fundamental flaw in how you view 2nd year players if you're this concerned with his inconsistency shooting frankly. If you don't think a 2nd year player will have peaks and valleys throughout the season, I really don't know what to say. He shot 39.4% from 3 on 7(!!) attempts this season with 56.4% TS. I'm very pleased with his shooting. Can't even begin to explain how nonplused I am about the 'consistency' argument; it's simply such a natural issue that 99% of players go through, especially in the 1st and 2nd year.
What #3 overall pick that played this poorly in their first two seasons became a quality NBA player that played a key role on a championship team?
How many more minutes/games/seasons do we have to watch opposing teams target him before it's enough data to draw the conclusion? Also what is going to change about his game? He will suddenly learn to be a lockdown defender? His size is his size. His tendencies are his tendencies. He is suddenly going to learn not get lost defensively or get blown by like a traffic cone?
He is not a rookie. By no means is a second year player who had: two summers of training, two summer leagues, two pre seasons, two years of development and tutelage a rookie. The statement and notion that he’s a rookie is simply not true.
That is correct yes. I mean...thats the plan. He's very talented and I can see another different sort of Jalen Brunson in there. But I dont know if he has Brunson's moxie. Im actually quite sure he doesnt but I think he's actually much more talented than him. Defensively he's very unsound. And I'm not sure what exactly Fred has taught him about positioning because he just resorts to trying to get steals still. His decision making with the ball is also bad. But this is his first year playing big boy basketball and guards like him (Steph, Brunson) have taken years to develop. Jabari/Amen/Reed are the core still. I could see everyone else getting fired/traded.
Check out Tate at the end of that vid, knowing that his idiotic foul of smart made this game-tying 3 possible.
Because he might have had a better contest of that shot if Jabari hadn't arrived just in time to clear him out.
I'll say this...and people can take from it whatever. I'd rather keep players who can shoot but need to be coached up on defense vs Players who can't shoot and have to be coached up on how to One of these skills is just harder to acquire through coaching and practice...so the hierarchy on who to keep, I think some of you have it all wrong. There's a greater chance that Reed becomes a pesky tolerable defender than there is than the player in my profile learning how to shoot at a tolerable rate. I want to keep both but...just sayin'
There it is. I was wondering why so many of you stan a 5'10 defensive sieve that is a shooter that can't shoot and a point guard that can't pass or dribble.. It's because he's white LOL
