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Miller not starting the 2nd half. Got benched for picking up that T I guess (?).

Brandon Williams on the bench too.

Minott starts the 2nd half at the 4 in place of Miller, immediately starts playing better. I sense a pattern here!

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:53 pm Brandon Williams on the bench too.

Injured...

And, yeah, the T probably got him benched to start the half. Minott starting to do some stuff.

kekgeek wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:40 pm

KG4Ever wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:26 pm

60WinTim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:22 pm

Ya, I don't think Matt Ryan is going anywhere!

I am not sold on Ryan. He does nothing but shoot in garbage time.

Not saying Ryan is great but the wolves were really good overall with Ryan and elite on offense with Ryan on the court (97th percentile)

Maybe so, but he barely played so it's a really small sample size of garbage time minutes. He's 26 and I don't see an NBA player. Rather use the spot on someone else.

KG4Ever wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:58 pm

kekgeek wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:40 pm

KG4Ever wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:26 pm

I am not sold on Ryan. He does nothing but shoot in garbage time.

Not saying Ryan is great but the wolves were really good overall with Ryan and elite on offense with Ryan on the court (97th percentile)

Maybe so, but he barely played so it's a really small sample size of garbage time minutes. He's 26 and I don't see an NBA player. Rather use the spot on someone else.

I think we are going to find ourselves quite pleased with Troy Brown Jr.

Minott proceeds to miss two free throws and toss the ball away, so kinda lost whatever momentum of good play he was having.

60WinTim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 10:03 pm

KG4Ever wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:58 pm

kekgeek wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:40 pm

Not saying Ryan is great but the wolves were really good overall with Ryan and elite on offense with Ryan on the court (97th percentile)

Maybe so, but he barely played so it's a really small sample size of garbage time minutes. He's 26 and I don't see an NBA player. Rather use the spot on someone else.

I think we are going to find ourselves quite pleased with Troy Brown Jr.

Yeah, I hope so. I think Wolves have plenty of good shooters. I know summer league shooting is lacking, but lets remember all our rotation players can shoot save Rudy.

Miller obviously having his worst game of the SL. However in general has been closing out, he’s just bad at it.

It’s just one half of one Summer League game. I had already reached the conclusion before tonight that there’s only one NBA-ready player on the Wolves Summer League roster and his name is Brandon Williams.

Even though Brandon hasn’t had a good game so far tonight, I’ve seen enough of him in the prior three Summer League games along with highlights form his two G-League seasons and 21 games with Portland to see him as an NBA caliber PG.

I’m disappointed in Minott and Miller tonight. They’ve played horribly. But watching them and looking at their G-League stats I still see both eventually being NBA rotation players with substantial upside beyond that. They just need more post-high school experience. Miller is still 19 years old with 20 G-League games and no college experience. He averaged 18 points and 11 rebounds in those 20 games. And he has tremendous physical tools and energy. Minott is 20 years with only 9 G-League games under his belt, a few sporadic minutes with Minnesota’s NBA team, and one year of very limited play in college. He averaged over 20 points, 1.3 steals and 1.6 blocks in his 9 G-League games and was averaging 17 points and 2 blocks per game in Summer League before tonight.

So let’s all take a collective deep breath and just accept that these guys are really young and short on high-level basketball experience. We need to be patient.