Basketball guys, what does Reid need?

A little rest helps because fatigue can cause some bad fouls. I dont know if that is the case here but getting a few min breather certainly can help a players overall game.

Experience and confidence. Right now he has no confidence out there, especially against other big guys. Hopefully he will start going right at these guys when he gets the ball inside and draw some fouls on them. Soon as that happens his confidence will shoot up and he’ll be better on both sides of the ball.

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But his offense has to be better, and we need to get 10 points or so from him in his limited minutes. He's not being aggressive enough and he's not getting better positioning in the post to be effective.

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I agree with this. He just cannot move into position fast enough to be effective and ends up bumping and/or bringing his hands down sometimes. On offense, he gets his shot deflected too many times for his size. Auburn and Florida had the horses to affect him. The good news is the kid is young. He shows step throughs and footwork that has promise.

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What does/can Wade do to help him stop fouling so much?

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He could stop switching everything, 1-5, on defense. But that is the identity of LSU's defense and the way they execute it is the reason they are the best defensive team in the country right now. So changing it up just to hopefully keep Reid from picking up fouls is NOT an option.

However, the simplest answer is that Reid is just going to have to go through growing pains like many Freshman big men go through. He's not a dominant athlete in the mold of Ewing, Olajuwon or Shaq where he can just come in and overwhelm even good big men with raw ability. He's an offensively skilled Center that, probably for the first time in his life, is going up against guys with equal size, and greater strength and skill.

To give a little bit of perspective, Colin Castleton, who LSU faced last night, had very little production at Michigan in the first two years of his career. Walker Kessler, Auburn's big man, only played about 8 minutes per game last season as a Freshman at UNC. He wasn't a huge impact player as a freshman. And it is hard to blame the UNC coaches for that considering Roy Williams was his HC. I'll give Williams the benefit of the doubt that he knew how to coach.

There is a reason guys like Ewing and Shaq are still so revered in the history of college basketball. That's because while there have been thousands of "big men" who have played since them, their ain't a whole lot of Ewing's and Shaq's on planet earth who were that dominant as freshman.

He needs to toughen up on offense and quit committing stupid fouls.

Experience
Strength
A mean streak

Work on his game

Aggressive but not foul
Confidence
Strength

More experience.

He needs to get some minutes and score. He has such a huge lack of confidence rn.

He needs some minutes and have the ball force fed so he can make some plays. When he is out there and the ball isn't going to him he is not going to do well bc he isn't confident.

He needs to score and then he can start improving

He seems to make one to many moves or fakes in the post too. He always makes one extra pump fake and pivot that isn’t needed