Reed Sheppard report card

Mama Sheppard needs to slap him up and tell him, "You can't be soft!"

 

up and down, has KObe level killer instinct at times then shies away

 

Off night shooting tonight so far, but love his shot selection....just a poor night of shooting.

DD

 

I was wondering, @Will , if you were going to do a defense report card for the last two games… I feel like, just from a one viewing eye test, against the Hawks he had a couple of defensive lapses. For the Heat I saw maybe three truly blown defensive plays but not awful and he did good scrambling and closing out during the zone minutes.

I’ll probably watch the Heat game again cause it was such a ride!

 

Yeah, we need a Rockets fans' Bulwark to navigate this difficult time. The discourse is getting rough with the Udoka derangement syndrome lately.

 

i have no idea what your problem is, but asking for an opinion or a defensive breakdown is literally what this forum is about. It’s a DISCUSSION board. Crawl back in your hole and let the adults play.

 

Will was probably too depressed by the Lakers games he stopped watching.

 

yeah i saw a few defensive lapses last night. Got blown by once; saw one lapse where he didn’t get back in transition. But he made some good plays with his hands in passing lanes and jump steals. If this guy’s arms were just a couple inches longer …

the biggest thing I saw, improvement-wise, is he’s more able to stick with his man. He’s more often in the correct defensive guarding position. Obviously this was easier to notice when they played man, mostly in the first half. But he’s growing more competent as a man defender. You can tell he’s still thinking/learning where to be on some of these defensive rotations, but we’re seeing fewer mistakes there.

 

Shut the fck up

 

Oh dang, just checking in here and wow I guess my joke was in poor taste. I apologize. I am a fan of Will at the Bulwark so was just making a joke on those lines. That's all. Although I do think the Udoka criticism has been a bit strong.

 

I didn't suggest you don't do that???? I can see my joke didn't land. I apologize.

 

something must have gotten lost in translation - I thought you were being sarcastic against discussion, not for it! My apologies as well

 

Reed's offseason regimen.

Spoiler

 

Over-simplistic, I've seen this type of thing all over well beyond Clutchfans. Ive concluded that it actually is for once "society's fault". Not really any individual fault. Probably not yours or Hayesfan. Or even CF. It really is that everyday normal discourse in everything has gotten so pissy, argumentative, trolling, rage-baity, for-clicks, it's affected people's senses of initial recognition & response. Like the youth's say, our senses are "cooked bro, f'real"

It's a longer way of backing up your claim. That we all can use more standard balanced voices lol just for some sensory reset of sorts.

 

I thought the defense in the heat game was honestly pretty good, hawks and before pretty sub par

 

Do you know how many Hall of Fame level players SUCKED on defense, the list is longer than Westheimer Blvd.

If you can score efficiently you can play decent enough defense to matter.

Lock down defenses don't work in the playoffs, players are too skilled....GREAT offense is better than GREAT defense.

Balance is the goal, but skill on offense blows away skill on defense.

DD

 

I think the Heat game was Shepherd's overall best game. He flashed the total package.