Player Facts
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 205lbs.
Date of Birth: Mar. 16, 1991
College Experience: UNC (3 years)
Selections
All Star: 0
All-NBA: 0
All-Defensive: 0
Player Grades
Speed/Explosiveness: 5
Physical Strength: 7
Positional Size: 7
Positional Wingspan: 6
Paint Scoring: 2
Midrange Scoring: 3
Three-Point Scoring: 7
Dribbling: 2
Passing: 4
Perimeter Defense: 6
Interior Defense: 5
Rebounding: 4
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STRENGTHS
Intro
Reggie Bullock is an NBA vet originally out of UNC. The defense-first wing provides some unorthodox value – highlighted by screen navigation abilities and strong ball pressure. He fits neatly into the 3&D archetype.
Feet-Set 3's
The swingman has without a doubt gotten paid on the back of his defense. However, he still offers solid role-player-y value on the scoring side.
The 6'6" forward's offensive value begins and ends with his three-point shooting. While he can be streaky over stretches and is a notoriously slow starter, he tends to garner respect from opposing defenses. This uphill gravity creates more room on the court for his teammates to attack.
Teammates over the years such as Jalen Brunson, Luka Doncic, and Fred VanVleet have all at some point or another found Reggie spotting up. Driving hard and spitting the ball back out to this wing shooter is dependable meat-and-potatoes offense. Bullock uses a dip and then a quick release and has the size to remain unbothered against most perimeter contests.
Reggie was in the 77th percentile for spot-up shooting in 2020-2021, the 79th in 2021-2022, then the 62nd in 2022-2023. For those three years, he cleared 37% on catch-and-shoots from downtown. Bullock can and will slide around the arc a bit but makes his bones as a standstill shooter much more than a movement one. He will make one-more passes too.
He is also a nice guy to have fanning out in man-advantage situations. Odd-man rushes that end in a Bullock triple are by and large pretty efficient. He may not always even end up with the ball, but the shooting gravity he can offer up here is still a firm value-add. He mixes in some cutting here and there to round out his offensive contributions.
Wing Defender
The remainder, and the bulk, of Reggie's value is as a defensive player. He is rock-solid across nearly all important defensive criteria, so this player breakdown will focus on a handful of the standout areas.
At 6'6" with a 6'8.75" wingspan, Reggie Bullock can check guards and wings alike. Depending on the construction of the team and/or the strengths of his teammates, Reggie's primary assignments will vacillate between backcourt and frontcourt players. He uses strong defensive footwork and good size to be an above-average man defender.
Bullock was in the 69th percentile defending iso's in 2020-2021. There has been some slippage since then but he still brings that veteran know-how in man situations. He usually doesn't go for steals here but will look to defend straight-up. Reggie can be played within a heavy switching scheme.
Ball Pressure
Reggie's ball pressure can be very impressive out in space. He will look to get into the jersey of opponents, intentionally preying on weaker ball-handlers. Again, he won't swipe all that much for steals. He intends to make the ball-handler uncomfortable and cause them to burn calories and clock while in protection mode.
Screen Navigation + Team Defense
Bullock is a high-level screen navigator. His slimmer frame, agility, and intelligence allow him to be effective. He does a great job swimming over picks to provide rear-view contests or otherwise get back in front.
Reggie blows up DHO's well and is a deft defender of ball screen actions. 2021-2022 saw him land in the 70th percentile for his work guarding handoffs. Off-ball he tends to be alert and useful. He is actually one of the better wings to have to converge in the paint. Bullock's timing and smarts allow him to be a reasonably effective back-line guy (without blocking many shots).
WEAKNESSES
Weak Handle
Reggie is extremely one-dimensional on offense. Even when judged on a reasonable role-player rubric, he does not fare well. This is mostly because he cannot put the ball on the floor and make plays for himself or others – even off-the-catch.
Bullock's offensive value is inextricably linked with his 3PT shot. When he isn't making them, which is more often than you'd like, his offensive value plummets and he becomes an inarguable negative on this end.
Dearth of Shot Creation
His shot creation is essentially at rock bottom among NBA players. Hard closeouts can only be responded to with either a contested shot anyway, a sometimes ill-advised extra pass, or a bumbling turnover.
In over 1900 2021-2022 minutes in Dallas, Bullock only drove the basketball 52 times. That works out to less than one per game. His then-fellow 3&D teammate, Dorian Finney-Smith, had 258 takes to the rack across his full season that year. The next season of 2022-2023 even saw Reggie drop to just 31 dribble drives.
With no pump-and-go game to speak of, opposing coaches likely tell players to close out hard to Reggie every time. Circling back to an earlier point, the hyper over-reliance on an inherently variable skill such as NBA three-point shooting makes it tough for the former Tarheel to be a consistently positive offensive player.
Defensive Shortcomings
Defensively, he is on the lighter side so he can get exposed on the block. Heftier wings can abuse him physically here on quick duck-ins. He conceded an astronomical 1.28 points per play on post-ups in 2021-2022.
Reggie has fallen from a well-above-average wing defender to just an above-average one. A lack of defensive counting stats does not help his case here.
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