After a surprisingly dominant freshman season for Reed Sheppard with the Kentucky Wildcats, should the Orlando Magic trade up for him?
ORLANDO — For his one season of work, Kentucky guard Reed Sheppard statistically is the best college basketball shooter to come along in a generation. He could be the answer to a major problem for the Orlando Magic, but to get him likely would require a trade up into the top of the NBA Draft.
Whatever choice the Magic make, 19-year-old Sheppard is generating buzz ahead of the June 26-27 draft. Sheppard was a four-star prospect and rated as the top high school player in the state of Kentucky, yet his college production in at least one category — 3-point shooting — exceeded his lofty expectations and elevated his status in the draft.from three-point range on roughly four attempts per game. and Jason Kapono are the only NBA players in the 21st century to make more than half of their three-point attempts in a single season.
Still just 19 years old, Sheppard looks like one of the most promising players in this NBA Draft, and he’s more than a three-point shooter. He had a 69.9 true shooting percentage last season, something only three players accomplished in the NBA this season, and all of them were centers. Sheppard also climbed the Wildcats record books and finished with the second-most steals by a freshman in Kentucky history after averaging 2.
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