Jazz vs Nets. Hot Summer League action, Today @ 15:00 MDT
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Just finished watching this game.
I think people are reading into Hayward whatever they want to see. It's the ultimate in confirmation bias. I'll be honest, I just don't think we saw him do much of anything in this game. Outside of the "dream shake" bucket I didn't see him do anything that a replacement level player wouldn't have done.
Derrick Favors is just awful. I understand why his agent didn't like letting him work out against Cousins now.
I liked Rod Benson a lot. Nice touch around the basket.
Koufos looks like he needs some burn this year. But then again, I've been wrong before and default to a preference of developing Fesenko at Koufos' expense.
The player I was most impressed with: Damion James.
I think people are reading into Hayward whatever they want to see. It's the ultimate in confirmation bias. I'll be honest, I just don't think we saw him do much of anything in this game. Outside of the "dream shake" bucket I didn't see him do anything that a replacement level player wouldn't have done.
Derrick Favors is just awful. I understand why his agent didn't like letting him work out against Cousins now.
I liked Rod Benson a lot. Nice touch around the basket.
Koufos looks like he needs some burn this year. But then again, I've been wrong before and default to a preference of developing Fesenko at Koufos' expense.
The player I was most impressed with: Damion James.
Archie Moses
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If you were most impressed with James, you obviously didn't watch the game. Terrence Williams.
Also, Hayward had something like 17 minutes or so, and didn't do to bad. He wasn't amazing, but I still strongly believe players can't prove they can't play in the NBA by playing mediocre in the summer league.
If you were most impressed with James, you obviously didn't watch the game. Terrence Williams.
T Williams hit that ridiculous circus shot at the end of the first half and had a nice dunk but it looked to me like he was pressing and trying to get all his own offense while his team was 20 points down. Damion James was the only reason the Nets were within shouting distance in the first quarter. He cooled down in the second half and got less aggressive (I think this was due to his wrist injury) but in the first half I thought he was clearly the best player for either side on the floor.
Hayward's time was limited, but the reality was that he was unremarkable. He got some buckets off of pin-downs and a transition bucket. The rest of his points (outside of the dream shake play) were instances where he got fouled and went to the line. The foul numbers in summer league games are higher than normal (David Thorpe talks about them being parades to the free throw line because of the newbie refs) and I question how many of those plays will get Hayward to the line in the regular season. Certainly I'm worried that so much of Hayward's offensive value in these summer league games hinges on an ability to get to the line when it's not like he's powering his way into the paint or using some sort of unique shifty driving game. In any event, I regarded his performance as relatively efficient but not easily duplicatible under NBA game conditions. I'm recording tomorrow's game as well. I keep waiting for evidence of his supposedly otherwordly basketball IQ. I haven't seen anything like AK's passing game out of him yet.