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The Sports Junkies

NBA Draft Prospect Spotlight: Rob Dillingham and Reed Sheppard | 'No Ceilings'

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Metcalf (@tmetcalf11) and Tyler Rucker (@tyler_rucker) broke down the impressive starts of the Kentucky freshmen Rob Dillingham and Reed Sheppard.

For NBA Fans already looking forward to the draft, find the full episode where they break down other early season risers and fallers on the main podcast feed.

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0:00.0

Let's move on to a couple of my risers and a couple guys that I I've been really impressed with and I did not expect to be this impressed with this quickly in Rob Dillingham and Reed Shepard.

0:15.0

They're kind of the darlings of college basketball right now, both coming off the bench for Kentucky.

0:21.0

Their numbers have been absurd. I didn't have either in my top 60.

0:26.8

I didn't either. We talked about Reed Shepard after last year's McDonald's All American game.

0:31.5

We both mentioned that we really liked him. He was fun. But we never, at least I, I'm not going to speak for you. I didn't think he was any chance of having one and done potential. Thought he would just be this awesome four year college guard.

0:44.6

He's making that idea look really foolish right now.

0:48.1

Then Dillingham has completely transformed his game from where he was at this time last year.

0:53.0

Where are you out with both of them?

0:56.0

They're unbelievable.

0:57.3

That Kentucky game against Miami

0:58.9

was just remarkable to see the ball movement.

1:01.6

They're really starting to look like a team that's played together for three years and they're all these freshmen and it's just

1:08.9

Kentucky's on the rise in a hurry. It's gonna be funny because I feel like there's going to be people out there

1:13.8

being like they need to start Reed they need to start Rob and it's like I would not touch

1:17.9

what you're doing this is perfect like you have they're playing fantastic together.

1:24.0

It's really cool to see them on the court.

1:26.0

Like they have some chemistry against Miami.

1:29.5

They both had a couple of sequences

1:31.1

where it was like shot fakes to dribble in to get defense to collapse to kick out to the other.

1:36.3

And then Reed had a gorgeous like cross court pass that Dillingham read great and jumped to go attack the ball and then he had an easy lane.

1:46.7

It's just fun stuff but I was with you with Reed.

1:50.3

We watched the McDonald's All American game and I was like,

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