Austin Reaves Discussion: How Much Is He Worth?

Reaves is looking like he could hit Manu’s peak offensive contribution this year. Not sure his defense will ever be on Manu’s level and we still have to see if he can do it in the playoffs.

But I think we are in his prime right now, so I’m expecting him to be a 20+ highly efficient scorer while LeBron is out.

 

He's as good as I've ever seen him. He's making some superstar level shots even. I'm pretty sure he will have the best season of his career. He may struggle in the PO but that's something we can care about later.

Really looking forward to see him this year

 

Do you guys remember the feeling you got in 08, whenever Kobe got the ball, he could just score. He might not jump over a defender anymore, but he would jsut finesse his way to his spots and get a shot off.

Reaves is giving me a small semblance of that. Luka had that swag about him 2 years ago. Like, it doesn’t matter who’s defending, they’ll just shake them off and hit a mid range, a 3 or scoop in a layup.

 

At least there was all that other fun around the campfire this summer with the AR trade talks.

 

I love me some Austin, since day one and even bought his shoes. I don’t have half the confidence in him as I had in Kobe because I haven’t seen it in the playoffs yet.
That being said, I’m expecting HIM to exorcise those demons this time around.

 

We've seen it PLENTY in the playoffs. We've also seen some less than good games from him and some bad shooting games, and some of that going on when he was dinged with types of injuries that could affect all of that. You can't say you've never seen him do well in the playoffs. To a higher level even and moar consistency with the good games we all hope for.

 

Yeah, I was being a bit unfair and just referring to his lack of consistency in last year’s playoffs because he seriously underperformed.