Finished watching this game. The first half was back and forth but the game kinda slipped away from BABC (Reid's team) in the 2nd half before they made a late comeback to make things kinda interesting again. I think it's been reported on Twitter that Reid finished with 25 points...I have him down for 27 personally and I'm pretty sure I didn't give him any points that didn't belong to him so -shrugs-. My unofficial stats for him are:
- 27 points on 10/12 2 point shooting, 0/5 3 point shooting, and 7/8 from the FT line for a TS% of 65.8%.
- 5 rebounds (maybe one contested rebound but still, with the amount he leaks out to start the fast break this is something)
- 2 assists to 3 turnovers
- 0 steals or blocks
BABC pretty much exclusively played a 2-3 zone. Reid started out at the back line of it but eventually moved up to the top. I wouldn't say he's super active in the zone; he'd probably have fit in with this year's Syracuse team. But he at least is getting experience playing it; that counts for something.
He's listed at 6'4" on 24/7; I'll assume they're correct. He's a skinny dude with narrow shoulders and what looks to me to be a relatively short wingspan for his height; I wouldn't expect him to ever be a brick house but hopefully he can get a little bit stronger.
He's a pretty basic ball-handler; mostly lives off straight-line drives or just using a ball screen and pulling up. He seems to have a pretty good first step though/he does a nice job of attacking closeouts. Pretty solid leaper too. He could lead the team in "sneaky athletic" shoutouts from commentators if he comes to Syracuse.
As mentioned before, he finished with 27 points by my count on efficient shooting. That included 8/9 on layups/dunks/floaters and 2/3 on mid-range pull-ups. Some of those layups/dunks were just him getting uncontested finishes out of the fast break, but he had a fair number of contested layups too and showed an ability to use his body to protect his shot in decently creative ways. Also as mentioned before, 0/5 from 3 (including one heave to beat the shot clock). If I were to critique his shooting, he rotates his lower body more than you'd ideally like and jumps forward more than you'd like as well. It might be something his future coaches try to tweak, but it could also potentially be weaponized as a way to draw fouls on jumpshots; the way he jumps forward should theoretically lead to a lot of those dangerous landing spot fouls that turn into flagrant fouls in the NBA (can't remember if there's a similar rule in place in college).
All in all, pretty promising stuff here; probably above average athletically and seems pretty smart in how he attacks the defense despite relatively basic ball-handling skills. He looks as promising as any of our non-Mintz recruits in our upcoming class IMO.
