He passed up a shot in the 2nd half when there was no one around him to make the extra pass to Mitchell in the corner. Corner 3’s are not Mitchell’s speciality anyway and Reed should never give up an open 3 for anyone else regardless. If he hasn’t been told he needs to be told to start being more selfish in his shot taking while not taking bad shots. He’s smart enough to know the difference.
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DJ and Tre are both solid three-point threats. Don’t allow your obsession for Reed cloud your judgment about the other players.
1. Opposing teams are very clearly making sure to keep a defender closely shadowing Reed. Being a dangerous threat will bring that sort of attention and limit opportunities for open shots.
2. Reed is a bit too unselfish. Needs to recognize he is one of the best shooting threats on the team and take the open shots he gets. The shot he passed up today from the top of the key with no defenders within 15 feet of him, only to pass off to Mitchell near the corner for him to take a 3 (and miss), nearly sent me through the roof. He should never have had any notion of passing that ball.
He’s young… he’ll figure it out.
2. Reed is a bit too unselfish. Needs to recognize he is one of the best shooting threats on the team and take the open shots he gets. The shot he passed up today from the top of the key with no defenders within 15 feet of him, only to pass off to Mitchell near the corner for him to take a 3 (and miss), nearly sent me through the roof. He should never have had any notion of passing that ball.
He’s young… he’ll figure it out.
This. He’s passed up too many. I love the kid but he’s made a couple of head scratchers lately. Which we knew would happen. He’s mortal and a freshman.
Reed then has to shoot them. He’s GOT to stop passing up open looks. As much as I’m tired of Cal this one is not totally on him.
What are the 3-4 shots you want to see this team take the most.
No order
Wagner near the rim on balance
Reeves feet set for 3
Reed 3 in general
Rob off the dribble on balance
Mitchell when he is set
No order
Wagner near the rim on balance
Reeves feet set for 3
Reed 3 in general
Rob off the dribble on balance
Mitchell when he is set
I’m even ok with Tre taking an open three at times. We need to establish some inside game. Not forced by right now it’s live by the three or die by the three. Gotta have a little balance.
But if this defense doesn’t get fixed?@, MJ himself could play with us and we will lose.
I’m shocked that even with a guy like Ulis coaching we’re this bad at D.
And this is probably why he's shooting so well. He takes shots he's comfortable with and shots that have a high percentage of going in. He doesn't force things like others might.
Cal ball. We saw this coming. The best we can hope for is that the kids listen to Welch, and that Cal's showcasing efforts don't get in the way come March. Like the 2011-12 team where Cal did his best to put his fingerprint on the game and the team went with what they knew would win.
You are literally the most uninformed and basketball ignorant poster here. That’s quite a feat, congrats!
It’s crazy how much this team gets beat off the dribble, and then how many wide open 3s we give up. Theirs too many athletes on this defense to be this bad. Kentucky is bad at defense and bad at rebounding, you can’t be bad at both
We took 39 3s and played incredibly fast, exactly how is this "Cal ball"?
He passes it back out because he cannot his shot off, He passes the jump shots so he does rush his to get off.
At some point you have to decide what the best offensive approach is , a set to get Reeves or Shep an open J , or DJ working a high pick n roll with fill in the blank big .. I think we all know what the is answer for Mr HOF is . Mr Drive is a 1 on 1 lover .. I recruit the best player to beat you .. if he cant , I still look damn good on draft night , even though the team fall short
I didnt see it but 2 people I watched the game with said they clearly saw Wagner mouth " PASS THE BALL " at Shep after Shep missed the 3 on the break where he really didnt have numbers .. he was open and he had just made one , but he took that shot right before a TO .. as they were going to break did Wagner really tell him that ? I would be pretty unhappy if he did .. he himself , and several other took ill advised looks and Wagner isnt saying anything yo therm .. did he tell Shep to give it up ? Didnt I see that Shep only took 5 shots today ? Not exactly taking more than his fair share
DJ is shooting 31.25%
Tre is shooting 33.9% and his percentage is being held up by two games in which he went 8/17. Outside of those two games, he is shooting at a 28% clip.
He hit two tough contested 3s today. He can get it off if he wanted but I think he’s worried about being efficient
You're finally learning, JFCats, ole buddy.
I knew that you would finally come around!
He also passes up shots where he is wide open for 2-3 seconds to get somebody a look
And Tre's percentage is being held down by today's game(1/6) and two games where he was 0/2.
DJ's is being held down by the first few games of the season.
See how this works?
Conspiracy theory: Reed is staying a second year and trying to get his classmates drafted by giving them more scoring opportunities.
He is gonna need to focus on getting assists at the next level, so let him.
He is gonna need to focus on getting assists at the next level, so let him.
Sure. You can make a case for picking and choosing with Tre - but you wouldn’t take a bet that he shoots under 33% on the year.
With DJ - he’s at 31.25% on the year. No picking and choosing there. He’s just not a good shooter. Dropping from 1st round in nearly every mock draft because of it.
I know exactly what moment you’re talking about. And, yes, he absolutely should’ve taken the shot instead of passing to Mitchell that time.
But, you know, every player makes the wrong call on those sometimes, given that they usually only have a split second to decide. Reed makes the right decision in those situations WAY more consistently than others … which is why he’s had such a crazy high efficiency rate this season.
Makes it easy to forgive the rare occasional wrong call.
We need drills on catching the ball. Because apparently somebody can't catch a pass.
I don't think Reed shoots enough but other teams guard him close and Reed will not take a bad shot.
THIS....... however.... I hope this is fixed when Adou comes back... and in the minutes dept also...
You keep bringing up his "outliers".
If you're going to do that for Tre, then take away every players two best shooting nights then. Every player would drop like 10 percentage points I bet.
That's not how averages work. You don't just NOT include Tre's best games lol.
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DJ has been improving quite a bit since early in the season. Before he was having issues even making layups. Now that he has become more adjusted to the college game, his shot-making has improved quite a bit, and that includes his 3-point percentage. In fact, in the past 7 games, he has shot 40% from three. Is that Reed, Dillingham, or Reeves numbers? No. However, that's still an honest clip and one that should be utilized.
What is Cal supposed to do when Reed gets open 3's and won't shoot them?
I saw that like 3 times yesterday?
Reed turns down shots he has to shoot.
But yeah, FAAAAR CAL.
I think the only player he likes are Sheppard and Adou.
Since the season started, "We need to bench DJ." "We need to cut Tre's minutes to 20."
Reed Sheppard gets a thread with "Why aren't we getting him more shots?" This ignores that Reed had 2 or 3 open looks and didn't take them.
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