Should we be worried about Shaedon?

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1 Eye Jack said:
I have zero doubt in Sharpes abilities. No matter what he’ll easily become a 25 point a game scorer, he’s 22 and scores with ease. My only question is how much better does he want to be because his talent level is on par with Anthony Edwards. He can be a superstar, question is does he want to be or is he content being a really good offensive player.

My concern when he accepted that contract was he really doesn’t care to standout because if he truly believed he was going to be special he wouldn’t have accepted that contract. Obviously just my opinion and as he matures maybe he decides he wants to be a superstar.
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He's significantly improved every season in multiple categories. Despite his perceived nonchalance, you can't really question his hunger to work on his game. He's doing it and it shows.
 
HailBlazers said:
Portland's odd horse-meat history, from 1940s scandal to Johnny Carson-approved '70s craze
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Back in the '80's there used to be a horse meat market on about 41st and Hawthorne (or maybe Belmont). Lasted more than a few years. I remember one time at a family Sunday dinner my brother offered to bring a rolled roast. Purple and dry looking AF. But actually wasn't terrible. But of course he waited until the table had been cleared before he told us it was horse. Shoulda expected it from that horse's ass......
 
It’s so sad to hear me fanboy over Russ during our broadcasts over the years. Did the same with Kobe Bean……He’s knows I always will have his back though.
Funny thing is, whenever I’m around him, I expect him to point and say, “Subway right!!??”
But he never does 🤨
 
The only people who should worry about Shaedon are players and fans around the rest of the league.
 
To truly become a star, he'll need to improve his free throw rate and get to the line.

Here's hoping he gets there by next season.
 
I didn't like the turnovers tonight at all but the good news is that Shaedon seems pretty pissed off at himself about it and we've seen him make good changes once he's identified problems.
 
The top vertical dunks over the past 2 seasons:
47.2" - S Sharpe - 12/20/25 (*NBA Record)
45.1" - S Sharpe - 12/6/24
43.8" - Ja Morant - 2/25/25
43.6" - S Sharpe - 12/6/24
42.0" - D Jones Jr - 11/12/25
41.1" - S Sharpe - 2/26/25
40.5" - S Sharpe - 11/13/25

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I think Sharpe is holding back. He could easily do 50.0".
 
It's amazing Shaedon produces the way he does. It speaks to just how athleticiall-gifted he is. But I need to get off my chest where he struggles that makes him so inefficient.

-- He sees the offense in two dimensions. It's either forward or backward. And, most of the time, it's just forward and the only backward is the fallaway jumper. No side-to-side dribble. No snake dribble. It makes him too predictable.
-- No Euro-step. I really didn't think about it until tonight, but he plays with a guy with one of the best Euro-steps in the game and I can't remember Sheadon ever doing a Euro-step. Almost every other perimeter player in the the NBA has a Euro move now.
-- He tries to overpower every defender. This kind of goes with the first point. If he would dribble back a step or dribble to the side, he would create space. Instead, he keeps going directly into defenders. He's not creating space. He's helping defenders stay attached to him.
-- His dribble has no change-up. It's very much, with the occasional exception, the same pace, belt height. Again, predictable.
-- He doesn't really have a "spot on the floor" he wants to get to. I think of Larry Bird telling Xavier McDaniel, "I'm going to score on you from right there." Bird proceeded to back X-Man down, little jukes to the right or left and a bump until Bird got to a spot where he took tens of thousands of game-type practice shots that he knew he'd make it. And he did. SGA is one of the best at this today. He has two go-to moves. First, he developed that 8--to-10-foot baseline fallaway, which still is in his bag, but now even more he has the crossover, bump the defender to jolt them so they can't jump and contest a step inside the left elbow. Almost every NBA player, not just every good scorer, but every NBA player, had a spot and a move to get to that spot. We know Dame's and Deni's instinctively by heart. Shaedon's got the move where he gets the 12-foot straightaway pullup, but I don't think he really practices it much, because he too often leaves it short.
-- He has no crossover and no hesitation dribble. Again, it's very much, straight ahead, one speed, no deviation or nothing.
-- It looked like early in the season he had a lot of confidence in the step-back 3. He creates a lot of space with that move and seems to feel rhythm with it, and it's the one shot that fits in his two-dimensional thinking on offense. But he seems to have abandoned that since everyone got hurt and he's had to expend more energy doing other things.
-- He doesn't attack shot-blockers. He fades from them. He doesn't try to pack it on them enough. This leads not only to getting blocked but to not getting contact and getting to the line. And he is, in general, contact averse.

This isn't meant to be exhaustive, but, if I was coaching him, these were the things in the offseason I would tell him we were going to work to improve upon, and I'd want him to keep this in mind in every drill we did.

I've posted several times, the stuff I see him do leads me to believe he either doesn't work hard on his game or practice with purpose in the offseason. He doesn't look like he has muscle memory with his shots that he's at a point where it automatically is the same mechanically 98% of the time.

One other thing: His defense is better this year. However, his defense feeds off his offense. If he's not shooting well, his defense is noticeably worse. I don't know if that's a concentration issue or a motivation issue, but they definitely seem connected.
 
PCmor7 said:
-- He doesn't attack shot-blockers. He fades from them. He doesn't try to pack it on them enough. This leads not only to getting blocked but to not getting contact and getting to the line. And he is, in general, contact averse.
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This was particularly glaring last night, where he was just repeatedly getting stuffed. When you're as athletic as he is, why are you getting easily blocked by Luke fucking Kornet.
 
PCmor7 said:
It's amazing Shaedon produces the way he does. It speaks to just how athleticiall-gifted he is. But I need to get off my chest where he struggles that makes him so inefficient.

-- He sees the offense in two dimensions. It's either forward or backward. And, most of the time, it's just forward and the only backward is the fallaway jumper. No side-to-side dribble. No snake dribble. It makes him too predictable.
-- No Euro-step. I really didn't think about it until tonight, but he plays with a guy with one of the best Euro-steps in the game and I can't remember Sheadon ever doing a Euro-step. Almost every other perimeter player in the the NBA has a Euro move now.
-- He tries to overpower every defender. This kind of goes with the first point. If he would dribble back a step or dribble to the side, he would create space. Instead, he keeps going directly into defenders. He's not creating space. He's helping defenders stay attached to him.
-- His dribble has no change-up. It's very much, with the occasional exception, the same pace, belt height. Again, predictable.
-- He doesn't really have a "spot on the floor" he wants to get to. I think of Larry Bird telling Xavier McDaniel, "I'm going to score on you from right there." Bird proceeded to back X-Man down, little jukes to the right or left and a bump until Bird got to a spot where he took tens of thousands of game-type practice shots that he knew he'd make it. And he did. SGA is one of the best at this today. He has two go-to moves. First, he developed that 8--to-10-foot baseline fallaway, which still is in his bag, but now even more he has the crossover, bump the defender to jolt them so they can't jump and contest a step inside the left elbow. Almost every NBA player, not just every good scorer, but every NBA player, had a spot and a move to get to that spot. We know Dame's and Deni's instinctively by heart. Shaedon's got the move where he gets the 12-foot straightaway pullup, but I don't think he really practices it much, because he too often leaves it short.
-- He has no crossover and no hesitation dribble. Again, it's very much, straight ahead, one speed, no deviation or nothing.
-- It looked like early in the season he had a lot of confidence in the step-back 3. He creates a lot of space with that move and seems to feel rhythm with it, and it's the one shot that fits in his two-dimensional thinking on offense. But he seems to have abandoned that since everyone got hurt and he's had to expend more energy doing other things.
-- He doesn't attack shot-blockers. He fades from them. He doesn't try to pack it on them enough. This leads not only to getting blocked but to not getting contact and getting to the line. And he is, in general, contact averse.

This isn't meant to be exhaustive, but, if I was coaching him, these were the things in the offseason I would tell him we were going to work to improve upon, and I'd want him to keep this in mind in every drill we did.

I've posted several times, the stuff I see him do leads me to believe he either doesn't work hard on his game or practice with purpose in the offseason. He doesn't look like he has muscle memory with his shots that he's at a point where it automatically is the same mechanically 98% of the time.

One other thing: His defense is better this year. However, his defense feeds off his offense. If he's not shooting well, his defense is noticeably worse. I don't know if that's a concentration issue or a motivation issue, but they definitely seem connected.
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Very good post, can tell you’ve done some coaching at some point lol. I think not having that college experience has really hurt his fundamentals development. I’ve been saying for a couple years his most glaring weakness is his handles. He struggles to get to spots on the court that he wants to go because he has no moves just athleticism. Elbow shots use to be his shot but this year teams have forced him to take harder shots like fadeaway, which if he can develop those will come in handy later. Amazing to think he’s able to still average over 20 a game with such limited ability to create his own shot. If I’m the Blazers I hire Roy to work with him in off season, his skill set would make Roy a 30 point a game scorer
 
1 Eye Jack said:
Very good post, can tell you’ve done some coaching at some point lol. I think not having that college experience has really hurt his fundamentals development. I’ve been saying for a couple years his most glaring weakness is his handles. He struggles to get to spots on the court that he wants to go because he has no moves just athleticism. Elbow shots use to be his shot but this year teams have forced him to take harder shots like fadeaway, which if he can develop those will come in handy later. Amazing to think he’s able to still average over 20 a game with such limited ability to create his own shot. If I’m the Blazers I hire Roy to work with him in off season, his skill set would make Roy a 30 point a game scorer
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Agree. If he wants good coaching, gets good coaching and accepts good coaching, he's an all-star. He's fundamentally on the ground floor and still averages 22 ppg. His shot is smooth, it's just inconsistent, like he hasn't had the repetition ... that's pretty consistent in anyone I've ever worked with. You can tell who has trained properly and efficiently and who basically plays just when they have time when they don't have to be there.
 
I'd like to see him command defensive help. I'd like to see him want the ball in clutch situations and recognize that he either should be getting a good shot, getting to the line or forcing the defense to warp in such a way that someone else would get an easier shot.

I've seen him get technical fouls this year. It's the most fired up I've seen him, which I like (in moderation) because too often he seems so Type B, aloof, detached on the court. I want him to want to not just make highlight plays, but to make them with other people in the frame and to make his teammates better.

Just an incredible amount of raw talent, but how much does he want to be great?
 
PCmor7 said:
I'd like to see him command defensive help. I'd like to see him want the ball in clutch situations and recognize that he either should be getting a good shot, getting to the line or forcing the defense to warp in such a way that someone else would get an easier shot.

I've seen him get technical fouls this year. It's the most fired up I've seen him, which I like (in moderation) because too often he seems so Type B, aloof, detached on the court. I want him to want to not just make highlight plays, but to make them with other people in the frame and to make his teammates better.

Just an incredible amount of raw talent, but how much does he want to be great?
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He does command defensive help already. Given it's only when Deni is on the bench and is a result of how limited the rest of our healthy offensive weapons (if you can even call them that) are.
 
blazerkor said:
He does command defensive help already. Given it's only when Deni is on the bench and is a result of how limited the rest of our healthy offensive weapons (if you can even call them that) are.
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I don't think he commands defensive help. I'm not counting guys sliding over a couple of feet to poke at his high dribble. You and I might just not agree on this. Technically, I could see someone defining that as help, but I don't. I define help as an extra defender having to detach from his assignment because his teammate can't contain his own assignment, not someone sneaking in there because the primary defender has stonewalled Shaedon or whoever and they have an opportunity for a sneaky steal.

Shaedon isn't comfortable putting the ball on the floor like most scoring guards in the NBA (both PG and SG). He doesn't feel another defender shading from his assignment to stick and hand in there because he's too focused on just keeping the ball with one guy pressuring. Again, in my experience, that's usually an affliction of players not practicing enough or efficiently so as to not have to sneak a peak at the ball and their defender when they dribble.
 
But, yeah, Shaedon's forced into a role for which he isn't suited when he's initiating the offense. He doesn't have the mindset of a PG or the dribbling or passing. That said, a good SG should be able to do that a bit in a pinch, and Shaedon's skills in those areas really are below average among rotation SGs.
 
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