REED SHEPPARD SCOUTING REPORT | 2024 NBA Draft | Houston Rockets | Kentucky Wildcats
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- #HoustonRockets guard Reed Sheppard is right up there as one of the most unique prospects I have ever evaluated. How will the Wildcats playmaker's historically efficient season translate to the #NBA, and where will he go in the 2024 #NBADraft?
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Historic three-point shooting
2:13 Pull-up threes
3:06 Finishing at the rim
4:28 Finishing and athleticism concerns
6:35 Midrange
7:50 Playmaking in transition
8:45 Pick-and-roll playmaking
10:08 Passing and playmaking improvements
11:05 Defense
12:38 Timing to get steals and blocks
13:22 Defensive and athletic concerns
14:22 NBA Draft projection and Takeaway - กีฬา
Nice analysis, thanks! Sheppard kind of reminds me of Fred VanVleet, though he might actually be the better shooter of the two. The way he's able to play great defense as an undersized, not-very-athletic guard, the high-volume three point shooting on and off the ball, the passing, the questionable offensive game in the midrange and paint. FVV has turned into a very good playmaker and ballhandler, but let's not forget that was a part of his game he had to develop over time.
Makes sense as a comp for all the reasons you mentioned. Glad you brought up the development and strides Fred had to make. Those are key for NBA guards who are on the smaller side.
Nah he's way different from Fred. Unlike Fred, Reed doesn't dribble the ball for 20 seconds of the shot clock and take bad shots
@@bbal9678 Easy to say at the college level. I like Reed, but he picks up his dribble way too quickly. Don't disrespect Fred, won a chip and was a key piece.
@@na_k Which is completely different from Fred. Fred is very ball dominant on ball player and doesn't have that kind of vision of a Reed Sheppard. Sheppard can play off the ball a lot better, isn't going to handle the ball the way Fred does
another great break down - you're the best!
Appreciate you as always!
I was waiting for this video. He seems really solid other than rim pressure. He seems like a decent facilitator that Rockets needs since FVV is on 2+1 deal and Amen Thompson while his ceiling is very high, it'll take time to get there especially considering his jumper.
A question though, Kentucy seems to be famous with its guards. Is there any forward or center equivalent of that on college level?
This channel deserves to be bigger btw.
Thanks, I appreciate you! Houston is a nice theoretical fit. I think they have the size to insulate Reed and all of their guys can more or less handle the ball to an extent, so there wouldn’t be that much pressure on Sheppard to become a primary imitator.
My concern here is that it seems like the Rockets want to accelerate their timeline to truly compete, so I wonder if the moves for them going forward will be for already established NBA players. That said, even if they theoretically drafted Sheppard and he didn’t work out, the state of their roster also means it wouldn’t be a big setback.
Regarding the question about a program that produces bigs the same way Kentucky produces guards, I’m not too sure - but Shaka Smart had a great track record at Texas (that school in general actually until recently had a lot of NBA bigs such as Tristan Thompson, Mo Bamba, Jericho Sims, Greg Brown…) and now he has Oso Ighodaro at Marquette.
@@FloorandCeilingJarrett Allen is another great Texas big
I'm a homer, but I would say Kentucky is the Kentucky of F/C's. Anthony Davis, Julius Randle, Bam Adabeyo, and Karl Towns are all recent all-stars. Then there's the role players like PJ Washington, Keldon Johnson, Nick Richards, Jarred Vanderbilt, Trey Lyles, Isaiah Jackson, and whoever else I forgot about.
@@andyp8840Knew I was forgetting someone, but yeah absolutely.
Reed/Amen/Tari/Jabari/Sengun lineup is scaryyy on both ends
Spurs needs him
I want San Antonio to draft a point guard (unless they trade for someone like Trae Young). My favorite target for the Spurs is Rob Dillingham, but it would be really interesting to see Reed Sheppard work with the gravity that Victor Wembanyama has and the openings that would give him. Thanks for watching!
We need rob
No y'all don't y'all can have Topic or Dillingham let my rockets have Reed 😭😭😭 we need shooting sooo bad this kid is like Steph without the handles
@@nocap6000 y’all can have him got mid writer all over him & yes it’s cause he’s yt
why im here. want that tony parker level finishing but is that asking too much with his 3D+pass ahead tools? or could he get there? amazing player.
Best player in CBB imo. His basketball iq I’ve never seen before from an underclassman.
Unlimited range, unteachable instincts, and best passer I’ve seen in the game in years..
Reed showed that yesterday with 32 points, 7 assists, and 4 stocks. He’s definitely the best freshman in college. I’m still just not totally sure how that will carry over to the NBA. It definitely will translate to some extent (like you said, his instincts are unteachable) but the game is also totally different compared to college.
@@FloorandCeilinghe can be a point of attack defender and one of the better spot up men. that alone for the mid to backend lotto teams is enough.
Great content!
Curious if you would change Reeds draft position after the Mississippi St game?
He played with more confidence than previously imo. I think he showed a broader skill set.
Thank you for the video
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you brought up the Miss. St. game because it’s Reed’s best performance of the season so far. A big part of that is because he showed off a lot more self-creation than he previously had.
I’m a bigger believer in him every day and I’m curious to see if he builds on this performance before the end of his college season. If he keeps showing off these flashes, then I’m going to have to move him up my big board. Not much to dispute once a prospect passes the eye test and the advanced stats with flying colors.
Reed sheppard YOU are a rocket
What do you like about the fit with Reed in Houston? Thanks for watching!
@@FloorandCeiling the most obvious thing is the shooting but for me its also his ability to make plays offensively and defensively. Im not worried about his size and physical tools because we’ve seen this argument so many times yet we have Fred vanvleet, TJ mconnell, mike conley, jose alverado who are all positive defenders despite being small and not hyper athletic. It also feels low risk as its much easier to know what his floor is as a player. Ideally i would want the rockets to trade down to 5 but im okay with them drafting reed at 3.
Not sure I see the #1 or #2 option on a team for the reasons you mentioned. But I do see an impact player, maybe even a high level one due to all of the elite micro skills. And for that reason he's currently 5th on my board. I trust him much more than many others in this class.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, I think he'll be impactful - and I totally agree with what you said about his micro skills, which are definitely special - but I'm not totally sure to what extent just yet.
The college game and the NBA are so different in terms of skill and size, and I worry that Reed's feel and IQ might only get him so far if he suddenly has to start beating 6-foot-4 defenders off the bounce or guarding a 6-foot-6 attacker in space.
Going miss him best of luck. BBN
Had a historic freshman season at Kentucky.
You can’t change his pace he goes at his speed wether that’s slow or fast.. His J is wet and quick AF.. His catch and shoot is like Bogie from NY.. His instincts are like no other colleg bbal player i’ve ever seen. He just sees things before everyone else all the greats do. His handles can be better but he doesn’t need to use his handle to score. He’s got more combined Steals/blocks than any guard n country. His pass game is nice too.. I really like the kid and think he’ll be a lotto pick for sure.. Dillingham has a chance to go 1.. Watch
Just a super solid all around player on both ends of the floor. He should probably be an All American this season really. I’ve seen some people knock his defense, but I think he’s really instinctual on that end and he’s incredibly productive.
Will it totally translate against bigger and more athletic players? Maybe not in the same way as it has at Kentucky, but it’s worth finding out.
Sheppard's defense is so interesting and reminds me a lot of the way CP3 plays defense. A combination of sharp read and superb timing. It's like he knows where you're going to put the ball before you do and just put both his hands there in advance. I honestly don't know whether he'll be as effective as prime CP3 in today's league defensively considering how big the guards have become, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on him.
I think you touched on the most important thing in your last sentence. I really like watching Sheppard on defense and I also find him very intriguing there, but I just don't know that he'll be able to keep up physically in the NBA.
Enjoyed this analysis. Do you plan to do a vid on K'aleel Ware?
Yes, stay tuned!
The scary thing is he still needs a few years to reach his eventual peak. He's still young enough to have at least one dumb mistake every game. How good will he be when he's 21???
There's a good chance that, by the time he's 21, Reed will be a pretty different player to the one he is now. Thanks for watching.
A high IQ player any team would draft dis guy
I’d really like to see him land in New Orleans. I think Reed would be a great complement to Zion and Brandon Ingram, plus they have a lot of size and length to make up for his lack thereof.
Awesome
Thanks for watching!
Sheppard is an intriguing player.
On one hand his stats are impressive and not just because of his 3-point shooting, but because of his all-around efficiency.
But on the other hand he has athletic limitations that will affect him in the NBA mainly on defense and playing towards the basket.
Other years we would possibly be talking about a late first round player, but the thing is that in this Draft Sheppard can be in the lottery or even in the top-5 and I don't see him with the level to do it.
Possibly his ceiling is players like TJ McConnell (who was undrafted) or Pritchard, but for that he will have to prove a lot of things in the NBA.
Sheppard is a good player who sees and thinks the game at a very solid level for being so young, but I still have very real questions about him despite a historically efficient season.
He creates very little for himself, especially at the rim. Sheppard cannot break defenders down off the dribble and then, he lacks the size and pop (despite his draft combine testing numbers) to functionally finish over bigger defenders and bigs in the paint. He struggles to even get paint touches at times, which is a huge difference between him and someone like TJ McConnell for example.
I also think Sheppard's passing is being a little overvalued. He played with 2 or 3 other ballhandlers at Kentucky all of the time. When Sheppard had to consistently create in the pick-and-roll, he had issues killing his dribble early, turning the corner against longer+more physical defenders, and creating enough space to play comfortably.
In prior draft classes, I doubt he'd be getting this type of hype even with his shooting numbers. I understand why a lot of people have Reed close to or in their top five, but I cannot really even place him in my top 10 and feel great about it. Drafting him in the late lottery is what I'm most at ease with, and I think that's where Sheppard also has his safest outcome and will also return adequate value.
6’3 short legs great shooter
Great shooter for sure. Also a short/even wingspan while probably being more like 6-2ish in shoes.
Shep is too unselfish, he could get 20 every game if he wanted. Might not be best for the team though. But he needs to take 10 shots a game IMO.
Thanks for watching!
It's an interesting balancing act at Kentucky. All three of their point guards could see their stock boosted by even more touches, but I also think it's worked really well to have Reed share the ball with DJ Wagner and Rob Dillingham. Antonio Reeves as well, even if he's a 2 guard, is also incredibly productive and having a fantastic season.
he looks like stockton
He’s a good college player unfortunately just because you’re elite at high school and college ball doesn’t mean you’ll have a decent nba career
That’s absolutely true. College productivity doesn’t need to carry over to the NBA. In Reed’s case, I think it’s fair to question this even more. Even though I love his feel and I think it’s worth finding out what he can do in the NBA with the ball in his hands more, it’s also very natural to wonder how he will fare against more size+length+athleticism and what happens to his efficiency if he’s asked to create off the bounce more.
You gotta remember that slashing isn’t gonna be his job. He’s gonna be the maybe bring the ball up and get an offense set up so he can come off a screen after the pass for a shot. He’s not gonna be used like a Bradley Beal or Manu , he’s gonna be a Kyle Krover Klay Thompson,
Sure, I can get behind that but Klay Thompson is around 6-7 and he's even playing the 4 nowadays. Kyle Korver was the same size. Sheppard is probably at least 5 inches shorter, if not 6, than both of those guys.
He needs to have more juice on the ball imo. He doesn't need to be Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with how he gets into the paint, but he needs to become more dangerous off the bounce if he is to be a full-time point guard. To his credit, he's shown more of that in the last few games, though.
@@FloorandCeiling I’ve watched a lil bit of his highlights his handle isn’t that bad but, it also isn’t needed his gonna he there’s plenty of shooters now at his height that are doing good yeah Steph has a good handle but when they had other guards that could handle the ball he played a 2 and didn’t run the ball and a play starter and he’s just as un athletic as Sheppard is. He can get his shot off pretty well and the comp he’s playing against now is either the same height or taller than him. I think hes gonna grow also.
He just put himself in the lottery tonight if he wasnt already there
Facts. Appreciate you watching!
He is sooo similar to John Stockton. If he hit the weight room and got stronger he would be a mirror image of Stockton.
Thanks for watching!
I’ll be totally honest, Stockton is before my day despite having watched videos of him playing. Curious to know more about this comparison?
Mark Price more so than Stockton imo.
@@FloorandCeiling the way he dribbles, moves, and has a nose for the ball is sooo Stockton like. If you go and watch John Stockton highlights and watch Reed Shepard highlights they look eerily similar. Stockton was the best point guard in the NBA throughout the majority of the 90s. Reed is so similar IMO.
@@kylevan2 I can see that, but he isn't as quick as Mark Price. Price was really quick and could shoot lights out with a really quick release. Reed reminds me more of Stockton than literally any player I can think of.
I don't see the similarity with Stockton.
Stockton is the prototype of the classic point guard, being a perfect organizer and assistant. And it doesn't seem to me that these are Sheppard's main qualities.
Sheppard will be a PG in the NBA...
That’s the hope, though I think there’s a considerable chance he’s more of a 2. Or at least, not the primary ballhandler on the team.
Malcolm Brogdon Lite
Offensively, I see it. The flip side is that Brogdon has a 6-10ish wingspan which gives him more access to angles on defense and as a playmaker+finisher. I’d be shocked if Reed had a wingspan over 6-4, which would be pretty small compared to most NBA guards.
On the other hand, Sheppard is also a lot younger coming into the NBA and he hasn’t had injury issues like Brogdon. Thanks for watching!
I see TJ McConnell in this player.
You aren’t the only one, but I think Sheppard does not get into the paint (or not as deep) as much.
He may also be a similar player to Kirk Hinrich of the Bulls.
I hope the Spurs have Sheppard with Topic
You'd want two guards for the Spurs?
I'm curious what he and Dalton Knect would look like in San Antonio
I think the Spurs need to prioritize a point guard. Any of Reed Sheppard, Nikola Topic, and especially Rob Dillingham imo are really interesting in San Antonio. Thanks for watching!
Seems like the Spurs are interested in Sheppard which I’m not all that crazy about. If prefer the Spurs to go after Nikola Topic or Matas.
Rob Dillingham is my favorite prospect for the Spurs right now. Him and Wembanyama would be a lot of fun together. Thanks for watching!
Probably a smaller less athletic Donte Divincenzo
Pretty fair comp. Thanks for watching!
so what are his weaknesses?
The questions I have surrounding Sheppard are about his positional size and length, below average vertical athleticism, unproven versatility off the dribble particularly as a shotmaker, limited pick-and-roll playmaking (while being aided by 2 other guards usually), and an uncertain defensive translation against quicker+longer attackers.
@@FloorandCeiling below average vertical athleticism? You mean his 42" vertical?
@@asianangler That's genuinely great in a drill, but I'm looking at the tape+the numbers. There, I'm seeing 5 dunks in 33 games and, in the half court where you want a top pick to produce, only 54.1% at the rim on a very limited 37 attempts.
That's because Reed struggle to create separation off the bounce and because he doesn't have the functional leaping ability to consistently finish in congested spaces against NBA length and size.
For comparison, Rob Dillingham had 4 dunks for the season while shooting 58% at the rim on 69 attempts in the half-court. DJ Wagner had one dunk and he shot a poor 50.6% at the rim in the half-court, but on a much higher 79 attempts. That's a real ability to accumulate paint touches which Reed is also yet to show.
@FloorandCeiling How do you think he can shoot the 3 against big 6'4 and 6'5 guards in the NBA? He's shooting against much smaller guards who are around 5'7 and 140- 150 lbs or against taller players who can't play defense.
@@saleemkirmani5583 there are 5'7 players in D1? lol.... maybe you're thinkin about local gyms
Reminds me of Payton Pritchard with a better 3!
pritchard is nowhere as good of a defender as this guy
It’s really tough for me to pinpoint a comparison for Reed. Someone whose current role I think could be comparable is Cason Wallace, although Cason is bigger by a few inches.
@@FloorandCeiling Wallace is a good comp
@@FloorandCeilingit’s definitely hard to find a comp, some ones I’ve thought of are like Jason Terry and Derek fisher, but It kind of depends what role Sheppard is going to find himself in
But the thing is, for both of those guys you kind of have to combine them with JJ reddick in your mind to get what you really think he could be if that makes
Other than shooting, what has he developed? He needs more time at Kentucky, IMO.
I think he showed he could produce at a high level, next to other star players, while being a vital member of a genuinely enjoyable team that could've won more.
That said, with Mark Pope coming in at Kentucky, I'm staying posted as to what Sheppard's NBA decision is. I personally think he should declare, but he hasn't said anything yet when others (DJ Wagner, Thiero, Bradshaw, Justin Edwards...) have about their futures in Lexington.
@@FloorandCeiling Remember that Pope and Sheppard´s father were teammates and roommates in Kentucky.
Too small for a 2 guard and not skilled or athletic enough to play p.g, i'd pick him in the second round.
Those are certainly the concerns, though I would say it’s more so a matter of his creation off the bounce rather than his skill level. For me, his absurd two-way production, feel, and scalability next to others make him a surefire top 20 lock - at worst. But I’m still hesitant to move him past my late lottery.
@@FloorandCeilingHe's 6'1-6'2 with a 6'3 wingspan at 185lbs, he's not a defender in the nba.
The kid is 6’3 I’m from London, Kentucky and my little brother friends with him I met the kid. Without being look at Stephen Curry I mean he’s 6’2 and he was 1st round pick now look at what he has accomplished.
2nd round?? Guess who's NOT a draft expert 😂
In your opinion he useless, but yet he's a lottery pick. Shows just what you know. I see why you only have four thousand subscribers.
It's always fun too see players proves doubters wrong but no need to be so sensitive.