Official Jamal Shead Thread

[Los_29]

He’s an on ball PG who can’t shoot, finish or create alot of advantages.

I’m not really sold on him as the long term back up PG at all but he’s a good dude and great leader. Don’t set him up with the FVV comps, FVV was a much better defender and significantly better shooter coming out of College.

FVV a much better defender? Ya, that’s simply not true.

Fred is definitely a better overall defender. Shead has potential to be very good defensively though.

[NinjaBro]

Matt Devlin's propaganda about FVV's "heavy hands" have y'all brainwashed into thinking FVV was a good defender omg

[Los_29]

Matt Devlin's propaganda about FVV's "heavy hands" have y'all brainwashed into thinking FVV was a good defender omg

One vote shy of being second team ALL-NBA defense in 2022. One of the top defensive players at his position this past year.

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I must say, you’ve been on quite a roll recently.

[HumbleRen]

He’s an on ball PG who can’t shoot, finish or create alot of advantages.

I’m not really sold on him as the long term back up PG at all but he’s a good dude and great leader. Don’t set him up with the FVV comps, FVV was a much better defender and significantly better shooter coming out of College.

FVV a much better defender? Ya, that’s simply not true.

He is. Fvv is significantly better than him at it. Shead isn’t even better at defence than Jakobe is.

Don’t get fooled by full court presses and 8 second violations. That’s the flashy stuff. Watch him in the half court defence against real NBA players, they eat him up. He’ll get better at it with experience but his rookie season? He was 100% a negative defender lol.

[ATLTimekeeper]

Fred looked worse in Nurse's system that had no bigs and required him to play 38 minutes a night at high octane, with zero relief at back-up PG thanks to Scottie's Magic Johnson aspiration and Malachi Flynn's inability to smile.

Shead struggled with the speed of NBA talent, but will likely adjust and be fine there. There is a limit to the effectiveness of small guards on D.

There's 50 players in the NBA < 6"4. If you looked at the top 20 in MPG, Fred would be hands down the best defender.

It's in that next 30 where it becomes dicier to be a strong rotation player. The guys that are getting minutes because of their defense are Cason Wallace, Davion Mitchell, Jose Alvarado, Kris Dunn, Pippen Jr, Marcus Smart. Shead has to get to that level, and he's the smallest. It's gonna be tough, but he does enough things well and he's great in the room that he'll likely get a long leash here.

[canada_dry]

A stat to remember: 28 in 28.

He shot 28 % from 3 in his final 28 games of the regular season.

That simply has to go up.

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[ConSarnit]

Fred looked worse in Nurse's system that had no bigs and required him to play 38 minutes a night at high octane, with zero relief at back-up PG thanks to Scottie's Magic Johnson aspiration and Malachi Flynn's inability to smile.

Shead struggled with the speed of NBA talent, but will likely adjust and be fine there. There is a limit to the effectiveness of small guards on D.

There's 50 players in the NBA < 6"4. If you looked at the top 20 in MPG, Fred would be hands down the best defender.

It's in that next 30 where it becomes dicier to be a strong rotation player. The guys that are getting minutes because of their defense are Cason Wallace, Davion Mitchell, Jose Alvarado, Kris Dunn, Pippen Jr, Marcus Smart. Shead has to get to that level, and he's the smallest. It's gonna be tough, but he does enough things well and he's great in the room that he'll likely get a long leash here.

The Nurse-ball system worked in part because of Fred. Him being able to switch onto bigger players and hold up made playing small tenable.

We can criticize FVV for a lot of things but he’s really good at defense. He can guard point of attack, fight through screens and switch onto bigger players and not get killed. You can’t ask for much more from your PG defensively.