Summer league observations.

[AussieWolf3]

I haven't watched any SL, but curious what the board things of the new FT trial

[Q-is-here]

I haven't watched any SL, but curious what the board things of the new FT trial

I like it, but it's not really new, as the G-League used it all last season. It speeds the game up.

[AussieWolf3]

I haven't watched any SL, but curious what the board things of the new FT trial

I like it, but it's not really new, as the G-League used it all last season. It speeds the game up.

Fouls on 3pt shots get one FT too right?

[Q-is-here]

Through 4 games, Zyon Pullin is 9th in PPG and 2nd in APG in Summer League play. There really isn't another PG in Summer League that has matched that combination of scoring and assists. He also had a 3:1 assist to TO ratio, which is pretty damn good in what is a very chaotic enviornment.

[Q-is-here]

I haven't watched any SL, but curious what the board things of the new FT trial

I like it, but it's not really new, as the G-League used it all last season. It speeds the game up.

Fouls on 3pt shots get one FT too right?

Yes. All or nothing!

[Monster]

I like it, but it's not really new, as the G-League used it all last season. It speeds the game up.

Fouls on 3pt shots get one FT too right?

Yes. All or nothing!

I wasn't sure how I felt about it but as games went on I kinda liked it more and more.

[Monster]

Through 4 games, Zyon Pullin is 9th in PPG and 2nd in APG in Summer League play. There really isn't another PG in Summer League that has matched that combination of scoring and assists. He also had a 3:1 assist to TO ratio, which is pretty damn good in what is a very chaotic enviornment.

If we are talking actual PGs not guys that just have the ball in there hands and score or whatever he was the best PG I saw in summer league. Was the best player that might be called a PG? Maybe not but he was very good. Obviously he isn't a high draft pick rookie etc but still what he did this summer league was good and how he did it was impressive like an actual PG not some guy doing passes to guys who made a move and then scored. He threw guys open etc.

[Lipoli390]

Maybe we shouldn’t worry so much about Isaiah Evans terrible summer league shooting. Here’s an excerpt from an article today in The Athletic:

Steph Curry remembers two things about his only NBA summer-league season as a rookie 17 years ago.

First, he recalled being lousy. The ballyhooed No. 7 pick of the 2009 NBA Draft introduced himself to the Golden State Warriors by shooting 32.5 percent from the field over five lackluster games.

“I couldn’t make a shot,” Curry said via text message on Wednesday.

The best perimeter shooter in NBA history struggled with his shot in Summer League. Isaiah should read the article to bolster his confidence. Then he should spend 8 hours a day in the gym taking shots from behind the NBA arc for the next 3 months.

[Monster]

Maybe we shouldn’t worry so much about Isaiah Evans terrible summer league shooting. Here’s an excerpt from an article today in The Athletic:

Steph Curry remembers two things about his only NBA summer-league season as a rookie 17 years ago.

First, he recalled being lousy. The ballyhooed No. 7 pick of the 2009 NBA Draft introduced himself to the Golden State Warriors by shooting 32.5 percent from the field over five lackluster games.

“I couldn’t make a shot,” Curry said via text message on Wednesday.

The best perimeter shooter in NBA history struggled with his shot in Summer League. Isaiah should read the article to bolster his confidence. Then he should spend 8 hours a day in the gym taking shots from behind the NBA arc for the next 3 months.

You always want to see guys look good in summer league. Towns didn't look very good in summer league either. He shot 0-5 on 3's in 5 SL games and shot well under 50% on 2 point shots and had a lot of fouls and turnovers. He did ok his rookie season if I remember right.

Summer league is a data point. For some guys it's probably little more worthwhile data point than others like seeing what Freeman and Pullin look like compared to other players. It sure is nice when rookies look great there but it's not the end of the world and Evans wasn't able to acclimate even the short time a usual draft pick would.

Meanwhile are we actually worried about Evans confidence? In 75 minutes of summer league action the guy took 30 three pointers. Lol

[Lipoli390]

From ESPN:

Best second-round rookie: Meleek Thomas, Cleveland Cavaliers

Thomas, the No. 34 pick out of Arkansas, enjoyed a weeklong heater. The 6-foot-3 guard led summer league by averaging 27.3 points per game on 50/44/100 shooting splits in four games. In a competition stacked with quality bucket-getters, Thomas stood alone by averaging nearly four points per game more than anyone else who played at least three games.

Of course, it helped that Thomas enjoyed the greenest light in Las Vegas and averaged a tournament-high 20.5 shots per game. His top performance was a 35-point explosion against the Miami Heat in which he hit six 3-pointers and looked very fluid on the ball.

Whether or not the Cavaliers land LeBron James in free agency, they will gladly add Thomas' pop to a bench that ranked 25th in scoring last season.



Did Tim Connelly blow it again in this year’s draft. His pick at #33, Isaiah Evans, looked horrible in Summer League at the one thing he was really good at in college. Meanwhile, the #34 pick was stellar in Summer League. Yes, it’s just Summer League, but it’s not nothing.

If Beringer pans out and becomes the player most of us think he’ll become, that will help offset TC’s parade of draft misses. If TSJ or Clark becomes a starter or high-level contributing rotation player next season, that will also help. And who knows, maybe Evans will look like a different player by the time next season rolls around. But as it stands, we have a PBO who trades away picks unlike any other PBO and misses on the picks he keeps. His trade acquisitions have been a mixed bag. The NAW and Conley acquisitions were very good, but Conley was old and aged out quickly while NAW left because TC chose to pay Randle instead. Donte was a very good acquisition but Randle was not and TC gave up a great player to them. He missed miserably trading up for Dillingham but made some lemonade out of that lemon by swapping Dilly for Ayo, although he had to give up Miller and draft capital to get him. He traded Randle for cap room with no picks in return.

Tim Connelly’s latest was trading Naz and our remaining tradeable draft assets for LaMello Ball. Under the circumstances I like the trade and I’m relatively optimistic that the deal will provide net improvement but we’ll see. This deal better work out. Tim Connelly inherited a 46-win team along with a treasure chest from Rosas in Ant, Jaden, Naz, KAT (drafted by Flip) and nearly all the Wolves draft assets still in the cupboard. I don’t think Connelly has made the of that inheritance although I wouldn’t say he’s squandered it. We now have a roster that looks like it might be poised for a sustained run as a championship contender over the next 5 years. So maybe this will have all worked out in the end.