The Reed Sheppard Experiment is going better than you think…

The Reed Sheppard Experiment is going better than you think…

the 24 NBA draft the Houston Rockets drafted a now 20-year-old guard with elite basketball instincts lights out shooting capabilities and just remarkable potential and his name is Reed Shepard welcome to Basketball Intuition i’m your host Ethan Simon today we’re going to be talking about Reed Shepard i’d like to start by saying Reed did not play much in his rookie season but that’s because he was on the number two seed in the Western Conference they didn’t really need him could they have used him at points absolutely and there were times where I felt like he should have been on the floor more than he was but regardless if he’s on the Rockets or if he’s a trade piece for another team I do believe wherever he’s at next season he is going to contribute so now let’s not waste any more time we’re going to start with his build and his frame and then we’re going to get to the pick and roll branch off from there okay so like I mentioned Reed Shepard is 20 years old at the combine he measured almost 6’2 without shoes so we’ll call him 6’3 on the court also with a 63 wingspan weighing in somewhere around 185 lbs yes he’s smaller but in my opinion it’s not really a problem for his game and this was the really impressive part about his combine with a nice little arm trick he was able to get a 42 inch vertical at the combine um now over to the pick and roll because this is where I personally felt like he was able to showcase his abilities better than any other situation now Reed looks very very comfortable in the pick and roll and one of the things that I really like about his game is the fact that he can be a point guard good eyes he sees the floor very well but he also can be a flamethrower in a role kind of like a Klay Thompson and not only is he just a good passer and he’s a good three-point shooter he is absolutely a three-level scorer he finishes at the rim he gets to the mid-range and of course he can shoot the three ball i also thought that he handles pressure really well as a ball handler he is very calm and controlled at such a young age this is one of the things that really stuck out to me and I thought this was very very impressive in twoman game situations he relocates off the ball into scoring positions so very well and it’s so impressive if you don’t know what I’m talking about I’ll put it up on the screen but he did this a lot and I found it very impressive and kind of expanding on the pick and roll a little bit more i mean he just does everything that you want out of a guard he’s got good vision he is patient good passes good ideas he can get to the inside like I mentioned he’s a three-level scorer so you have to follow him everywhere around the court and if you’re not stuck to him he can get his shot off anywhere i also thought he had great footwork and some really fun ball fakes and I guess we can just go to shooting from here he has a pure jump shot with a quick trigger i love his jumper so much some three-point percentages for you from three-point range he shot 35% on catch-oot threes and 30% on pull-up threes this is a very small sample size of course he also shot 25% from the corners but he shot 35 1.5% above the break and I will say this about his efficiency earlier in the season he was extremely inefficient and he was struggling to make shots but later in the season when he got to play a little bit more those couple games down the stretch in the last month or two where he was able to really play and the efficiency started to really come around and for a guard I mean it’s like what can you expect if you put a young shooting guard out there and he doesn’t play that much how do you expect him to be extremely efficient from three you don’t so it’s really not a problem in my opinion that he wasn’t crazy efficient because he’s been able to show the ability to be efficient and whenever he is hot he gets hot like he is an absolute sniper the next thing about his shooting ability that I really want to hone in on real quick is his mid-range game it just opens up the floor so much like when I was talking about in the pick and roll earlier like it really does help out the fact that you have to guard him at all three level you can’t just sag off and wait for him to go to the paint or shoot a little floater he’s going to hit you with a nice low fadeaway like he has a really nice mid-range game he’s got fadeaways floaters pull-ups he’s got all that and in my opinion it looks very Devin Bookeresque just kind of the way he weaves in and out of traffic and gets a shot off wherever he wants it i just feel like Deon Booker would be like the best comparison I can give you now over to finishing i don’t have too much to say about his finishing abilities but things that I do have to say they’re very good he is very crafty around the rim i like it a lot he’s got nice reverse layups he can finish with his left his right hand i even seen this guy shooting a hook shot now you might be thinking for a smaller guard it’s going to be harder for him to finish at the rim in his case I don’t really feel like that’s a problem because this bag is just so deep like I just said i mean like this guy can even shoot a hook shot but yeah personally I don’t really feel like it’s a problem in the restricted area he shot 62 1.5% small sample size of course but he was very efficient inside if you’re still here and to join the video make sure to hit that like button it helps out a smaller channel out like myself a lot more than you realize now the most underrated part about Reed Shepard’s game is the defense i’m not going to lie i actually think he’s a good defender now I’m not talking about one-on-one point of attack defense i’m standing in front of you i’m going to lock you down that’s not what I’m talking about i’m talking about team defense you know how like if you were a coach you would want all of your guys on the floor to be good help defenders have good hands defensively not foul too much play solid one-on-one defense be able to block some shots he does all of those things he’s got really good hands defensively even though he’s got short arms he finds ways to get in the passing lanes he’s a pesky help defender he uses those hands and his good IQ to get in on plays and balls that he probably shouldn’t and I love the fact that he’s always willing to gamble a little bit he does a great job at poking the ball out from behind the offensive player and we got to see him do that a lot throughout the season and then kind of like I just said he’s not terrible in one-on-one defense situations like whenever they played the Thunder and he had like 25 points he was guarding Shay he was guarding JDub like he was actually taking responsibility for these guys but I never heard anybody talk about Reed Shepard’s defense so I wanted to make sure that I highlighted that today because I do feel like he’s a good defender um I don’t have any numbers to give you and maybe an advanced stats nerd will come up here and be like he’s actually a really terrible defender i don’t care watch games then tell me i personally think he’s a good defender last thing when it comes to defense and rebounding and such for his size he is actually a very solid rebounder now to my miscellaneous things a couple things I want to expand on um I I mentioned a minute ago how he’s willing to gamble defensively but I like the fact that he’s willing to gamble offensively as well making tough passes tough shots stuff like that when he actually played like those five games where he played more than like 20 minutes and he was actually on the floor making an impact I didn’t feel like they used him enough and he is very effective with the ball in his hands but they were using him off the ball more and I just felt like they shouldn’t do that like why do that jaylen Green and Reed Shepard were on the floor at the same time and Reed Shepard was just playing off the ball waiting for catch and shoot opportunities which he can do which is great but it was just Jaylen Green trying to get to the basket every time and then Jaylen Green goes out of the game and Reed Shepard is the main ball handler and they get more of everybody involved because it goes into a slower style offense more of a pick and roll type and I feel like 418 that’s just better like what I’m about to say is crazy like what I’m about to say is crazy but if I had to pick today Reed Shepard or Jaylen Green I would much rather Reed Shepard today i’m not talking about like potential who’s going to be better who could be more of a a well-rounded NBA player i’m talking about right now at this very second if I’m playing a basketball game I want Reed Shepard not Jaylen Green i just I just love the fact that he has great vision and great poise like Reed Shepard offensively he does everything that you want he can shoot the ball get to the basket get to the mid-range good passes all that stuff and I’m saying this again because there were times where he actually got to play but they weren’t using him on the ball yes he’s effective off the ball but he is more effective with the ball in his hands because all the all of the things that I’ve mentioned earlier he can finish he does the thing he relocates off the ball so well he can get in catch and shoot opportunities even as a ball handler which is weird to say but that’s what I’m talking about with the relocating stuff he can catch fire and shoot deep threes like you have to guard him everywhere on the floor and me personally I like it more than a Jaylen Green type guy who’s just really trying to get their buckets and if they’re not getting their buckets then they’re not really impacting the game all that but that much i’m not saying that Jaylen Green doesn’t impact the game at all if he doesn’t have the ball in his hands but I’m just saying Reed Shepard would impact the game more without the ball in his hands and more with the ball in his hands so now continuing I actually had a couple more things that I wanted to talk about that I didn’t realize um a couple bad turnovers here and there but again he’s a rookie that’s okay i don’t care i guess I kind of just talked about this already but he is I think perfectly selfish and unselfish he knows when he needs to put his head down and get to the basket knows when he needs to put his head down and get a bucket and he knows when he needs to make a good play and be a point guard i like that a lot and the very last thing that I have that I want to talk about for Reed Shepard is he needs to just keep doing what he was doing just at a more efficient rate if he can catch fire and shoot these threes and playmake and play solid defense and do all these things with more minutes and more opportunity next season and he does it efficiently then he’s going to be a really good player am I gassing him a little bit right now yeah that’s the whole point i might change my name to basketball optimism because all these guys I make videos about I think they’re actually going to be good i like I’m legitimately convinced that Reed Shepard could be a all-star caliber point guard but only time will tell so we don’t know what’s going to happen i don’t know what’s going to happen you don’t know what’s going to happen time will tell us now to the last segment of the day if you’re not familiar it’s my favorite segment of the day it’s the best segment of the day it’s the comment of the day the comment of the day is my favorite comment from the previous video can be a topic a question a statement can be about basketball life sports I don’t care my favorite comment is the comment of the day today’s comment of the day is going to be from style exe he’s talking about VJ Edgecom he is not a Hornets fan but he feels like he’d be perfect next level melo ball covers for him defensively he has a relatively high floor which I think they need after picking saloon vj has NBA skills off rip him Melo Brandon Miller running in transition sounds pretty fun also I couldn’t agree more if VJ Edgecomb ends up in Charlotte which I do honestly think that he will I think that would be one of the better situations for VJ obviously um for him being a really good defensive player him going to a better defensive team like Cooper Flag situation going to the Mavericks that’s going to make the defense just even better just to the fact that he doesn’t have to cover for other people he’s just adding on to it so yes he’s going to have to cover a little bit for LaMelo and other guys on the Charlotte Hornets um but still it’s a very good situation they get up in transition like you mentioned bj can score at all three levels lamelo as well Brandon Miller as well like offensively they’re going to be very fun and he also just adds exactly what they need defensively so I think it’s a perfect fit if he were to end up in Charlotte again which he should thank you very much for the comment style EXE shout out to you i appreciate you very much and I don’t really have a whole lot else to say for today’s video i have no idea what the next episode is going to be about another NBA video next i’m not really sure who yet but I’m going to figure something out yeah I’m not really sure well I guess we’ll just wrap it up here if you made it to the end of the video I appreciate you very much you can hit the like the comment the sub post notifications if that’s what you want you don’t have to do any of them if you don’t want free will but I would appreciate it if you did so one last time thank you for staying in the video and I’mma see you on the next one man peace out

Today we talk about Rockets Rookie Guard, Reed Sheppard! We discuss things from his pnr game, shooting, finishing, defense and more!

Shoutout to @style.exe. for comment of the day! Much love friend I appreciate you!