inliner311
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He was surrounded by two ball dominant players and was relegated to a catch and shoot player which isn't his game. Much like how Bosh or KLove were relegated to different roles playing with DWade/Lebron and Kyrie/LeBron. Reddish is a play maker but never got that opportunity at Duke.
To add to this. I think Reddish was asked to be a catch and shoot player because they lacked shooters which is very unlike a normal Duke team. Also Barrett wasn't good off the ball and Tre Jones shot 26.2% from 3. They needed him out on the perimeter shooting to stop teams from packing the paint even more than they already were.
They couldn't afford to allow to let him to handle the ball because no one could switch out to the perimeter to compensate for his catch and shoot ability. It might also partly explain some his poor 2 pt percentage and ability to get to the rim because if he had the ball every defender could cheat down to the paint since there weren't any 3 point threats.