Austin Reaves Discussion: How Much Is He Worth?

Might not want the increased amount of elbows to his beak playing D down there? But agree he could be good in that role.

 

i think it's both less fun and less glorious. your average fan is much more impressed with stepback threes than with a good read on the short roll that leads to a wide open corner three (with a MUCH higher expected point value). on defense, it's not just the bows but the grinding on the lower body and back, i'm guessing.

but again, doing it for 28-30mpg, largely against backup centers (except if we need to bench ayton to close a game)--this is totally doable, imo.

 

i'm hoping some of these recent deals help set a slightly lower market for reaves. giddey graded out pretty comparably to reaves last year, and is younger with probably more room to grow (his main deficiency--shooting--is something that's easier to improve than reaves's--defense).

pj washington in the low 20s and giddey at 25 might mean we can keep reaves closer to 30 than 35.

mikal bridges's 35 per deal had me thinking reaves was going to get that, minimum.