Tonight's edition is this fucking amazing reverse layup. The only guy on our team who routinely pulled this since Brandon Roy is Dame. But the hangtime Sharpe uses to basically wait out the defenders is just another tier. It's more obvious on the third replay. Jesus. I mean, Sharpe.
The most amazing part of this is not that he's doing this as a rookie, not that he's barely 19 years old, not that it was late in the game and against one of the better teams in the league, not that he's doing it like it's a routine play, not that he split two defenders and didn't get a charge called and miss the shot...it's that he's doing this in only his 8th ever regular season game. That level of control, poise and agility is not something you'd expect out of someone that young and inexperienced.
I'd say most impressive part is that he's doing this going straight from high school to the NBA. A 19 year old rookie that played a full season of freshman NCAA basketball has vastly more high level basketball experience. He's way ahead of Kobe, Jermaine, Garnett.
That was kind of my point, in the way I wrote it (not the kobe/jermaine/garnett part). Albeit, it might not have been clear.
I threw up a couple of 'lay-ins' like that when I played. Of course, they ended up as air-balls 5 feet from the rim while I sprained an ankle Sharpe is young-smooth right now. I will say I suspect Chauncey benched him in the 4th Q for losing track of Damion Lee several times. But that is pretty much expected for a rookie
Yeah, and Calab was busy talking about whatever and totally missed the shot. When Shaedon picks up foul #4 he made no mention at all. I think KC should spend more time calling the game versus story telling. Just my opinion.
I think he's ahead of where I thought he'd be. He's showing all the potential that I was hoping for. I think give him a year or two and he's going to be a monster.
As long as he works on his handle. He needs better handle to take the big step. You give him a good combo-guard level handle on this kid, he is going to be a Problem with a capital P.
I have no doubt that he will. Just look at how far Ant has come in the last four years. One of my biggest beefs was that he had all that athleticism but he couldn't get to the rim. I think we all laughed at the idea of him playing point guard initially. He was pretty awful. Now it's night and day.
If only Sharpe was on the Lakers or the Clipper's bench so @THE HCP could see how good of a player he is.
He hits some tough shots. And he misses some easy ones so ugly… The potential is so unreal, though. I remember Kobe being like that. Like, how he hit that and then throw up that brick so badly…?
