Dave Hardisty

With that as the insurance policy, someone that he may trust in every circumstance, the bar is pretty high for Reed.

It's not to say that everything is Reed's fault because he is a better pure point guard than the man Thompson is.

He's better at controlling the pace.

He's got a better handle.

So it's not to try and pile on him.

But I guess where I go back to the shooting is that if he's not shooting a super high level –

if you're just wanting Reed out there to have another ball handler and sort of raise the floor, well, Aaron holiday can give you a lot of that while being more trustworthy defensively.

That's the thing.

So it's not so much that like Reed played a terrible game.

It's more, um,

He didn't do enough to distinguish himself relative to Aaron holiday.

That's the bottom line for me.

And so that's the challenge going forward.

Like if he hits threes at volume, the way he has done and will do in the future, at some point, he's going to get hot again, then this is going to take care of itself.

The defensive floor is low enough right now that if he has these stretches like we've seen the last couple of games, E-May is going to turn back to Aaron Holiday.

And by the way, Dave, weird night in the NBA.

I was a little distracted because I was checking the box.

Denver sitting out everyone, one at Philly.

Firstly, the Thunder got blown out by the Hornets.

So just a weird night in the NBA all the way around.