Tyrese Halliburton (Indiana Pacers), Evan Mobley (Cleveland Cavaliers), Jaylen Green (Houston Rockets), Jaylen Suggs (Orlando Magic), Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons), Scotty Barnes (Toronto Raptors), Zyer Williams (Memphis) Grizzlies).
If you are familiar with the names listed, you are sure to be a fan of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
They have something in common. They are all young players born in the early 2000s. They are also promising prospects for the future of the NBA.
There is another commonality. They are the players who contributed to the victory of the US national team at the 2019 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Under-19 Basketball World Cup held in Greece.
However, the MVP of the tournament was neither Halliburton, who was selected as an All-Star three years after his NBA debut, nor Cunningham, who was selected as the first overall pick in the 2021 rookie draft, nor Barnes, who became the Rookie of the Year in 2022.
The best star of the 2019 Youth Basketball World Cup was Reggie Perry (23), who was recruited by pro basketball Changwon LG as a replacement for Asem Marey.
Reggie Perry led the U.S. under-19 team in various fields, averaging 13.1 points, 7.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.4 steals, and 1.0 blocked shots during the tournament, and enjoyed the thrill of the championship.
Reggie Perry went to Mississippi State University after graduating from high school. During his high school years, he was rated as a top 30 national prospect and performed well on the NCAA stage. He went on to be selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2nd round, 57th overall, in the 2020 NBA Draft.
However, he did not find a place in the NBA. He played in 36 career games over two seasons until last season, recording 4.7 points and 3.3 rebounds. This season, he stayed in the G League, an NBA lower league, and sought an NBA call-up opportunity, but it failed.
High school fame doesn’t mean much now, but Reggie Perry was once a promising prospect. And his next challenge is the KBL court.
Reggie Perry, who completed the G League schedule last month (his team Motor City Cruise failed to advance to the playoffs), accepted LG’s recruitment offer and stepped on the stage of the KBL semifinal playoffs that will be held next week.
This foreign player replacement was not the scenario LG wanted. Marey suffered a calf injury in the final game of the regular season and was diagnosed with six weeks. Replacement of foreign players was inevitable.
Marey recorded an average of 15.0 points, 12.5 rebounds, and a field goal success rate of 58% in the 2022-2023 SKT A-Dot professional basketball regular league, leading LG to go directly to the playoffs in the quarterfinals.
In the regular league awards ceremony, he is a player who is the center of offense and defense to the extent that he was named as the 5th defensive girl. During his second season at LG, his value was even greater in that he got along well with key players such as Lee Kwan-hee, Lee Jae-do, and Jung Hee-jae.
On the other hand, the performance that Reggie Perry showed in the G-League was specialized in offense. He averaged 20.7 points, 6.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. Although he did not have a high success rate, he is a player who can also throw 3-pointers (28.2%). His free throw percentage was high at 83.3%.
Reggie Perry has a good ability to push toward the bottom of the goal based on solid physicality. He is also good at finishing below the goal. He has the potential to show good coordination with Lee Jae-do and Lee Kwan-hee as a role man in a two-on-two attack. He is good at scoring overall. Career is also great.
However, the fact that LG’s well-organized defense, centered on Maray, needs to change somehow, that the entire team needs to supplement Maray’s overwhelming rebounding ability, and that he has no time to breathe with existing players and adapt to the KBL game, right away 4 There are many variables to watch, such as having to run on a big stage called a river.
Above all, it is important how he managed his physical condition after the final game of the G League on the 25th of last month.
LG has no choice but to rely heavily on Dante Cunningham, who scored the most 30 points in the season in the final game of the regular league, where the fight for second place took place. There are not many cases in which foreign players have been replaced during the playoff period.
Still, only if Reggie Perry meets expectations can LG fulfill its long-cherished dream of winning. Attention is focusing on whether Reggie Perry will be able to fill the keyword “don’t worry~” that LG’s star star Lee Kwan-hee threw at last week’s playoffs. 토토사이트