UcanUwill wrote:XTC wrote:UcanUwill wrote:
Davion had crazy defensive hype before draft, but it kinda died down instantly when he started playing, I wonder what happened there? Chris Paul made bunch of defensive teams, and Shead is pretty big for a 6'0 guy, he is like 200 pounds, but very quick. Problem that defensive teams are positionless now.
Davion was a good point guard prospect. He was drawing comparisons to Kyle Lowry his college year. He actually had a very good rookie season and showed tons of promise, he was a huge reason why the Kings didn't want to go into the next season with 3 point guards.
In his final 32 games he rookie season he averaged 14.7 points, and 5.5 assists per game. In the final 11 games he got the opportunity to start and he averaged 18.8 points, and 9.3 assists. He had games where he had 17, and 15 assists respectively. He was looking like a true floor general his rookie year who could lock down any guard.
I think there's a little more to his game than meets the eye.
I am not necessarily disagree with that, but sometimes I think of him and what happened, because his defense why hyped up big time, but I don't think I ever heard of it after he got drafted.
His college defensive reputation didn't translate to the pros. I have seen him play good defense, pull the chair on star guards and still get called for fouls. If he's not going to be allowed to play defense as POA, then there's not much he can do. Shead may have the same issue if his defense has any star guards looking scrubby.
