Scottie Reynolds Reinvents Himself as Pass-First Point Guard

Filed under: NBA D-League, Springfield Armor

For a lot of players, the NBA D-League is more of an exposure league, a place where someone goes to put up big statistics while trying to get noticed by an NBA team.

Scottie Reynolds, the first NCAA All-American since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976 not be taken in the NBA Draft, has a different outlook on what he's trying to do while playing for the D-League's Springfield Armor.

Instead of scoring the basketball -- something he showed every NBA scout he can do during his four-year career at Villanova -- Reynolds has recently decided to focus more on getting his teammates involved in hopes of showing talent evaluators he can be counted on to play the point guard position at the next level.

"I've scored enough points," Reynolds told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "In fact, I'm sick of scoring."

That certainly wasn't the case early on this season when Reynolds averaged 23.2 points and just 3.8 assists in the month of November, but Armor coach -- and former NBA player -- Dee Brown has challenged Reynolds to be more of a facilitator of the offense. To his credit, the smooth-scoring guard responded well.

 

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