I'm not trying to argue against what you say. But not sure where you got the numbers. Castle took 244 3s for 33% in the regular season. He took 75 3s for 39% in the playoffs That's a total of 319 attempts for 34%. The sample size of 319 is actually larger than your 159. But the percentage is way lower than 40% if you include the regular season.
In Reed's absolutely best case scenario, he's still gonna be tiny. That's never gonna change. No amount of player development or skill training will overcome that. A bigger player will always have a higher ceiling.
You don't like Harper?? If anything he's the one who pisses me off the most about the Spurs. I think he'll be better than Castle and Reed combined. To have that level of strength and finishing prowess at 20 years old is straight up freakish. I think he's guaranteed an All NBA 1st team in the future given health.
It's taking the 35-84 castle shot after the allstar break, people are taking those 84 plus his 75 in the playoffs, that's the 159 sample.
I was mostly just referring to his series against OKC, which has been pretty bad. As far as his rookie season as a whole, I thought it was pretty good, but nothing mindblowing. He still has a lot of upside but I don't think he's a guy who's fully "broken out" yet, unlike, say, Cooper Flagg or Kon Knueppel.
Harper and McCain are eye openers. The Spurs and Thunder have superior coaching especially "incorporating" abilities. I think there's talk among articulate players in the league that Houston might be a bum ass place to play and it might be a lasting stigma.
I don't think the Spurs deserve any credit whatsoever for Harper. The guy will be a superstar no matter who drafts him. If anything, the Spurs might be holding him back a bit. The guy is just that good. He reminds me of young Harden and he's even younger.
His dad is the famous Ron Harper of the second 3-peat Bulls as well as the Kobe Shaq Laker dynasty. I think homegrown championship coaching helps a lot.
Reed will take a big leap. Anyone that thinks Reed is near the finished product should look at the career arcs of Nash and Brunson. Reed is ahead of either player at age 21 and has shown flashes of greatness. Castle is a terrible fit with Amen. If Castle ends up shooting 35+ from three then it's a different conversation. There were serious doubts he'd be able to do that pre-draft.
Sounds like cherry picking to me. Reed took 630 3s regular season + playoffs and made 39%. That's a much bigger sample size. College stats no longer matter.
I'm not saying it's not nonsense, i was just answering your question. As of now, castle is a terrible shooter. Does that mean he will always be terrible? No, but so far in college and in the nba he's been terrible.
Regular season and playoffs combined he shot 34% this year. Castle was a huge miss. Not only is Reed shorter, he has alligator arms. Even BTG has gone silent on all his scrub BS about Castle.
I'm always curious when people say this, but what arc are you looking at? Consider that for his years in Phoenix, Nash had players like Jason Kidd, Kevin Johnson, Sam Cassell, and if you want to throw him in as an SG, Rex Chapman playing ahead of him. His first year in Dallas was a lockout season with new teammates. Pretty much his second season with Dallas onward, he was one of the best PG's and shooters the NBA has seen. As for Brunson, he had some dude named Doncic scoring and passing ahead of him, which is why they thought he was tradeable. This isn't to say that Reed can't get better - I have no idea. He definitely improved this year. But Steve Nash was basically held back by a glut of elite PG names in Phoenix and woke up in Dallas to become what he became, and Brunson had Doncic taking up his shots/possessions. In my opinion, both were always "that" player - just needed their opportunity to shine. Hopefully Reed continues making jumps next year.
Was surprised not to see rookie Magic but he had 293 pts and 151 assists in 16 games, playoff rounds were shorter. Castle has already played more playoff games since everything is best of 7.
Spurs coaching: Learn a young player's strengths and use them to fit him into the system while developing other necessary skills. Rockets: Learn a young player's strengths and force them into Ime's system while maybe developing other necessary skills.
