[jaysmith1987Participant]

The way this guy is playing in the dleague im pretty sure he will recieve a call up this year.  He looks lke he can be that classic scoring point of the bench.  I think he might get a look from someone like the heat and actually produce i think he was overlooked because he’s not the run and jump athlete everyone is looking for now days.

[Ghost01Participant]

I honestly thought hes always been overrated. Totally 1 dimensional and isnt a real PG… It amazes me that this guy keeps getting the opportunities someone like Jon Scheyer, who does everything right but isnt an "athlete" doesnt get.

[jaysmith1987Participant]

Your talking about a guy who is averageing 21pts 4rbs and 4assists in the dleague first year out of college and he wasn’t even drafted normally players who are drafted get sent to d-league and put numbers up like this but he was not drafted.  He is a nba caliber player and he has been one of the best players in the big east for the last few years.  What I dont understand is how does this guy go undrafted being the best player on villinova hands down and now Corey Fisher and Maliik Wayns are considered first rounders its the classic case of athleticism over skill.  As far as Jon Scheyer in the early 90’s and eighties he would have got a chance to play in the nba and been a solid player but the nba today is more about athleticism and Scheyer is a skill player.

[sammybuckeye13Participant]

That’s actually pretty interesting. He is a rookie in the d-league, not someone who’s proven himself and just needs to prove himself again, but he is the type of player the Heat need. One of the main reasons they’re struggling right now is they don’t have someone who can create a shot for himself inside the arc (this eliminates House and Jones, and Miller and Haslem are out obviously). Reynolds was a very creative scorer in college I think would still make a good pro, if not this year.

[Ghost01Participant]

You are talking about the D LEAGUE. not the NBA. This guy is putting up numbers going up against complete scrubs who dont have NBA talent. What happened when he disappeared in his senior season in his last shot at the NCAA tournament? hes like a 6 flat shooting guard who cant penetrate at an NBA level.

[QUINCEY HODGES1]

How is he doing in the Dleauge by the way i havn’t kept up with it

 

Question which has better competition level D league or NCAA?

[jaysmith1987Participant]

I have to say that the Dleague has better overall talent than the Ncaa on average Dleague Players were successful Ncaa players to say the least.  Also the Dleagues rules are more similar to the Nba so you can see how a player translates in that style of play and the dleague scrubs are some first round draft picks so thats saying something right there. Reynolds is the real deal and the Dleague has former first round picks former nba players as well as people who have carved out a nice career in europe but come back here to accomplish there dream of making the nba after they collected enought money over seas to be stable.

[JJeff6Participant]

Im still mad at the suns for not taking him from their summer team and putting him on the roster.  He would have been great for them in their system, and he probably would have blossomed here.  Instead hes averaging 21 a game in the d league.

[Cardinal_FanParticipant]

 D-League numbers are overrated an dont mean you will have NBA success. There is a reason all those guys are down there. I dont think Reynolds is a pure 1 and would struggle tremendously on the defensive side of the ball.

[Ghost01Participant]

Quincey-

I think the D league drops having to face teams/players that are straight up aweful, but i think when you have powerhouse matchups of the best NCAA teams, you are talking about a total of 5-6 future NBA PLAYERS, which makes those games more competitive than the D League. Its a good question though. Since there hasnt been a true D League success story yet, just acouple of guys who hung around on the bench, its hard to give the d league any credit quite yet.

[QUINCEY HODGES1]

i dont agree think about the past games against top ncaa teams and see how many nba players there were. not fringe because Alot of the dleague players get call ups. From top to bottom its not close Dleague has the better players. these are guys that played college basketball and were stars for the most part. you might have 4 NBA players when two of the top teams play

[jaysmith1987Participant]

Someoene on here said that the Dleague doesn’t have any real success stories have anyone of yall heard of Aaron Brooks or Shannon Brown or Andray Blatche I think you all need to look at the alumni tracker on the dleague site and youll se how vauluable the dleague is.  Also Gary Forbes was in similar position to Reynolds in he was good college player didnt get drafted looks like hes doing good for Denver.  The thing that makes the dleague so great is that you playing a game as close as it gets to the nba.  I am not saying the talent is the same but the rules and systems are pretty darn close.  The teams in the ncaa are not better than Nbdl teams not even the elite ones.  I say that because even though a team might have 5 future nba players not all of them are at that stage yet.  Nbdl players are right on the cusp of making the league and alot of them were in Nba training camps.  Flat out players in the dleague are bigger and stronger.

[Ghost01Participant]

I see what you are saying….but… tearing up the NCAA tournament means alot more than tearing up the D League. Theres a reason for this.

[QUINCEY HODGES1]

Easier to tear up the NCAA if youre talented because the gap between talent is alot wider

[Meditated StatesParticipant]

He does not light it up scoring in the NBA he will be needed to be a PG. You can’t play him at the 2 cause he can’t guard two’s. He might get a call up though,but I believe he will struggle.

[Ghost01Participant]

Quincey…then why is John Wall in the NBA and Michael Harris not?

[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

"It amazes me that this guy keeps getting the opportunities someone like Jon Scheyer, who does everything right but isnt an "athlete" doesnt get."

What??? How is going to the NBDL out of college in any way an example of a guy "who keeps getting the opportunities?" Reynolds is putting in an apprenticeship for minimal money to try to get a look. These are two undrafted players, one is working to try to get to the NBA and the other isn’t playing anywhere right now. How can anyone interpret this as Scheyer doing "everything right" and Reynolds peforming at a high level is somehow in the wrong? Scheyer is a marginal prospect who got hurt. That stunk for him, but was nobody’s fault. There was no shaft or agenda to keep him out. Here was the agenda, go to Clipper camp and try to be better than Willie Warren. It didn’t happen. By latest account (a NY Times piece on the Duke-Butler game), he is healthy and "weighing options." If he wants to make a legit run at the NBA, then he should the D-League. Show that he can handle the point, can move his feet defensively, and that his release isn’t too slow to be of value in the NBA. Go up and down NBA rosters, and you’ll see quite a few backup point guards who worked their way into the NBA through the D-League. In mid-season when trades are made and vets are bought out, rebuilding teams are going to go to the D-League and take the 10-day contract flier on guys. I’ll give Reynolds credit, he is working to get that chance, and you want to fault him. Wow.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/sports/ncaabasketball/04rematch.html

 

[QUINCEY HODGES1]

So because wall is better then Harris college is more competitive then the Dleague?..lol

 

So college is better then Europe because more players get drafted from college then Europe?

 

Come on really think about that. a team may have 1 or 2 nba players on there team and 1 or two players that might come off the bench for the Dleague. Then take into account that other then the top couple of picks and, even that it a strong maybe, the rest wouldn’t be as good as most of the good starters int he Dleague( better int he future but at the time they are drafted alot of the 19-22 year olds are not as good as a 28 year old Dleague AllStar.

Any time they have done polls asking the players that have players that have played in all the leagues it has always gone

NBA

Europe

Dleague

College

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