Paulo Alves

He's just not having the clear step forward that he was a week ago.

But there's no reason your analysis should change that dramatically from a week ago.

It's been a bad week.

I think he'll bounce back.

You can attribute some of it to not having Shingun, but quite frankly, a lot of looks were open.

He just missed them.

It happens.

I think he'll bounce back.

What I'm more worried about is Reed Shepard because the last nine games, going back to before Christmas, he's shooting just above 40% overall overall.

and 30% from three.

And the defense is getting increasingly targeted.

To me, it comes down to for Reid's model to work with the defensive limitations that he has, he needs to hit threes at volume.

He needs to be a guy in the 40s rather than the 30s.

Otherwise, he's still worth playing because there's going to be game where he can carry you.

I'm certainly not saying you're going to kick him out of the rotation, but in stretches where he's shooting poorly...

And he's young and still developing his body and undersized.

He's costing you defensively.

And he's just overall not a net positive player when he plays like this.

And that's not a two or three game stretch.

That's almost 10.