Cam Reddish: Timing…
In every Generation of Professional Athletic There comes A Performer, Who, No Matter The Sport, On The Pitch, The Hard Work Or Between Hash, Productivity or years Invested, Witnessing the active in any form Is An Astoundment. Some Of The Names That enter most ardent sports fans are Michael Jordan, Ken Griffey Jr., Or Wayne Gretzky. They transmute the rigorous body flexion of sport into an art form. With Grace, Tempo, And Alacrity, It is Ethereal Or Heavenly In Focus, and to Have Witness Their stroke of mastery would be an injustice to oneself. Depraving the mind of such hypnotic Splendor. In This Generation, Many Athletes Came To mind as I Was Writing This, Surprisingly Cristiano Ronaldo Eminently, I Do not Watch Soccer Much. But As A basketball fan, That Athlete Name Is Cam Reddish.
Pause: Let Me Establish This Point. I Am By No Means Putting Cam Reddish In The Same Realm As These Great Names I Previously Mentioned. Those Are Renowned Sports Figure Whose Accolade Are Too Great And Whose Name exist In A Realm To Good For Our Own. While Cam’s Production In His Two Seasons Playing Forward For The Hawks Has Been, Put it Generously Pedestrian. In 22 Games This Season, Reddish Has Produced A Rather Paltry 11.2 PPg, 3.8 Rebs, And 1.5 Assists. Cam Reddish Epitomizes What is Thought That Production Does Not Correlate To Talent And Talent is not indicative Of Production. ESPN Has A Full Breakdown Of Cam repertoire Of Skills For a draft Analysis, So I Will Skip The Formality of Exploring Every Aspect Of His Game Pinpoint extemporaneous Detail. Here Is Cam’s Game In One Phrase He Is “An Underperforming Paul George,” Playing For A Promising And still Underperforming Atlanta Hawks Team. Yes, There Is Nothing Remarkable To report There But Allow Me To Harken Back To That Word “Grace.”
Cam Is a Natural With The Ball In His Hand But Often Passive On Offense. Still, In His Moment-To-Moment Aggression, You Get A Glimpses of The Incredible Unearth Talent Motion.
In First Caught The, Oh My, I am Going To Say This, The “Hots” For Cam’s Game Following The Duke Basketball Recruiting trail Of 2018. As Many Of You Recruitment enthusiast May Know, The 2018 High School Recruiting Class Was Hyped For The Bounty Of Talent It Boosted At The Top, or In other words, “The Zion Williamson Sweepstakes.” Zion, Along with R.J Barret and Cam, Compose The Top 3 Recruits Of That Years Recruiting And Class. Eventually, They All Signed To Play Duke Along With Top Point Guard Tre Jones. This Quartet Would Spend Most Of The College Season Ranked Number 1. Finished The Season As The Top Seed In the NCAA Tournament, A Run That Would end In Disappointment In The Elite Eight. Cam Hails from Philadelphia, Where He Played Ball For Westtown Prep, A Thoroughly Dominated High School Competition. I am Sure Those Of Us Who Have Followed This Past Draft Have Seen The Video Of Georgia Product and Number 1, Pick Anthony Edwards, Some of What Bragging, jokingly, About How Cam Dropped, I think it Was 40 on him. “That Boy Different” and “Call A Spade A Spade,” you Can hear a Jovial Edwards Express Another Underperforming Talent, Exclaim to The Camera Man now-viral video. In Philly, Cam Was A Phenom, And This earns Him The Reputation of A Bucket Getter. He’d Profess To Always Wanting To Attend Duke, And it Earned Him A Spot on One Of The Deepest Duke Recruiting Classes ever. Along With Joey Baker, Who Reclassified Late in his Highschool Season and Ultimately Red-Shirted. The freshman Quartet I Alluded To earlier Garnered Some Acclaim As A Modern-day “Fab 5”. This New Stardom Shined A National Glare On Cam That Would Ultimately Be Overshadowed By His Far More Heralded Freshman Teammates, Zion Williamson, and R.J Barret. Duke Had A Torrent of A Season. The Team Found Itself Ensnared In Tight Contest After Contest where Their Freshman Triumvirate Made Their Mark, Cam In Particular. Too many to recall But His Deep Three In Dukes Come Back Win Against Louisville Is One No Fan could Forget. Tre Pushing The Ball Up Court Duke Had Been Down Some 20 Points Earlier In The Half And Fought Back Against A Stifling Cardinal’s Defense. Jones Thrusts The Ball Backwards Between His Legs, Similarly To A Shovel Pass, right Into The lap Of A Trailing Cam Reddish, From Deep. The Shot Encapsulates The “No, No, No, No…. Yes, Yes, Yes!” Shot. Cam Never Performed Consistently neither Offensively nor Defensively, In His lone Season at Duke. This Jettisoned His Burgeoning Behind The Incandescent Glow That Was Zion Williamson. Still, Reddish Compiled enough Moments of Clutch Magic, Brief incendiary Displays of pro-style Jab, and stepped Back and posturing. Early Season Out, Put To Make Obvious his potential and talent.
In 2019 Cam Was Drafted 10th Overall By The Atlanta Hawks, where Latent Talent Has Yet To Emerge In full Blown, But every So Often, He Makes A Move. A Glide to Rim That Is Precursor To A smooth under the Rim finish Or Dunk. An off The Dribble One Hand, “Pass That To My Teammate I Assist That” Play Or Rip Through, jab Stop To Shake Lose From A Defender To create Space For A Midrange Jumper. Glide is the Embellishing Verb I want To emphasize Here, coupled With The ever cliché Smooth. He Moves So fluid And Effortlessly on A basketball Court. He Plays A Pace That A time appears That He is Occupying A Space Of His Own, With The Other Pieces Or Players Around Occupying Another Chess.
It Is The Elegance Of Cam’s Game. Not His Production, His Position, or His Development. It Is How He Moves rather Than How Much He Moves That So Enthralls Me, And It Is Why I Believe That Cam Reddish Is Worth The Wait.
