Austin Reaves Discussion: Overachiever Who Underachieved

And I don’t want to hear we have no 3 point deadeyes as usual any more. He shot like 60 % in the freaking playoffs and now has to be close to 70% for Team USA through 6 games. None of the it’s not high volume crap either. Give him the number of shots we pine away for a Beasley type shooter and plan for it and see what happens! He creates probably 50% of his 3s as it is.

 

Your role on your Team doesn't always translate to the FIBA National Team. Austin seems to be thriving.

 

…. ahhh ah guess I got to (dunk it)

(instead of dribbling it out)

 

Spur of the moment thing lol

 

WE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED OFFERING HIM A CONTRACT!

oh wait, that's spur for a moment.

 

Now I'm worried he's going to get worn out by Kerr. This will be new conspiracy theory on how Reave isn't that good but Kerr wanted to wear out the Lakers star to help GS for next seasons run so he just had to play him

 

17 minutes but you know what will wear him down is running away from Filipino fans every second he goes out of the hotel or late night appearances signings for his signature shoe

 

Austin Reaves wraps up tonight's game against Greece with 15 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals. He led Team USA in scoring and assist, clearly the best player of the team

 

Have been reading more and more comments about how the bench unit has consistently been outplaying the starters throughout all the games since they started.

 

The starters fall behind early then the bench will rout the opposing team when they come in. Sad really

 

Yeah …. exactly. Then the starters come back and offense stalls again. Was searching for box score again and came across Sam Quinn’s running comments saying what we mentioned here.

 

I mean I like Brunson but it almost feels like if we started Halliburton and Reaves over him and BI we’d be better. Though there’s something to be said for having that great bench and closing options and not hurting anyone’s feelers.

 

Politics is tough on that one because Kerr named Brunson a captain and went on about how much of the leadership role he had with this team.

BI should move to the bench though, he's not meant for international play. The team contribution outside of iso buckets and the role player duties that everyone has to perform are lacking from him.

 

FIBA is doing a trophy for each game for that? I guess so.

 

AR is going to need to buy another bag for the flight home to keep all of them in.

 

Lakers brass deserves a parade for AR. The odds of losing the Bald Eagle and replacing his spot in the rotation with another special white dude is borderline astronomical.