Lakers rookie Austin Reaves has become an important rotation player for the team this season. He started 16 games this year for the purple and gold but for the last two games the 23-year-old shooting guard was benched by the head coach Frank Vogel.
Vogel was asked by the media why he decided to not use Reaves lately and if it is related with his shooting woes. Over the last four games that the he played, the player really struggled with his shot.
“A little bit of everything I think,” Vogel said after the Denver game. “Austin has played really well for us this year. When you’re losing as much as we’re losing, you got to look at different things.
“I mean he’s struggled to shoot the ball ugly and he has shown some nights a little bit of a rookie fatigue if you want to call it that. I don’t have a lack of confidence in him but we looked at Avery [Bradley] as a change up we were losing, he played really well the other night. So Avery’s getting those minutes now.”
This season Reaves is averaging 6.5 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 22.5 minutes per game.
