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NBA Summer League Wild Overreaction Thread

Saint Cy of JFC said:
I'd let Brice play one more SLC game for the fans then sit him.
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It's really nice that we get some extra games. I suppose I don't really mind if he plays the SLC games. Brice seems like a very good leader for the group. He has clearly put in a lot of work over the years and seems to love playing. I don't mind rewarding him with some games before we go to Vegas.
 
LogGrad98 said:
So far based on 1 summer league game, absolutely not impressed with Bailey. Rough game all the way around. Rough looking shot too. Looks like he is just flinging it in the general direction of the basket, and every shot looks different from the previous one. Looks like every shot he takes is hurried and rushed even when he is wide open. Seriously he looks like the jr high and high school kids i used to coach when they had no one directing their shot development, form just all over the place. Hopefully he can tighten that up or he will never be an NBA-level shooter. Defense seemed a bit lackadaisical. A lot of this stuff could be nerves. First time on this particular stage, so to speak. But the shot thing is a problem imo. Even with a case of the nerves a decent shooter will still look consistent on their shot, it will usually just end up short or long or whatever, but his just looked haphazard.

I'd just like to add, **** the NBA for setting up the first 5 picks of this draft to coddle the darlings and **** over the Jazz. **** them right to hell.
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Very strange takeaway. His shot looks great and his release point is going to allow him to get a clean look over almost anyone.
 
sip said:
Very strange takeaway. His shot looks great and his release point is going to allow him to get a clean look over almost anyone.
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He was missing all over the place. Left, right, long, short. That's a result of his shot mechanics. Those need to be retooled. If he was generally on line just missing long or short then it's just nerves or something, but he was kind of scattered. Plus watching him shot his elbow starts at different points all the time, his wrist looks like he's flinging his shot, not smoothly releasing it. Everyone is enamored that he has a high release but that's miniscule compared to his general mechanics not being great.
 
Miggs said:
Ace just isn’t that good at the sport of basketball. His handle stinks. His shot is shaky. His decision-making isn’t good. He doesn’t even really look like a basketball player the way he plays.
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Not sure why this is getting lulz. It’s virtually impossible to rebut what I’ve said. The kid is bad. He’s tall and long. That’s about it.
 
sip said:
Very strange takeaway. His shot looks great and his release point is going to allow him to get a clean look over almost anyone.
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This whole high shot thing is so overused and overstated. How often do guys with lower shot releases get blocked? Once every nine games? Who gives a damn? It’s so infrequent it’s beyond negligible.
 
Man, too many people concerned about the wrong things with Ace. I was not an Ace "stan" going into the draft, but still think he has a relatively high ceiling and hope the Jazz can optimize his career. But whether or not he scored much in his first game is the least important thing to worry about. It's everything else that we should be looking at (and I thought he did fine at these things).

From Sarah's DN article: https://www.deseret.com/sports/2025...-first-summer-league-game-with-the-utah-jazz/
Jazz assistant coach and SLC Summer League head coach Scott Morrison said that the offensive parts of Bailey’s game are not what the Jazz are concerned with right now. Once Bailey gets to a point where he’s doing everything else up to standard, then the Jazz staff will start working on things like shot selection and offensive involvement.


For now, the focus for Bailey will be on being patient, different pick-and-roll reads on defense, knowing when to cut or stay in the corner, how to maintain pressure on the ball on every possession, how to recover defensively in the Jazz’s system and how to communicate effectively.

“We’re more interested in him playing hard and pressuring the ball and spacing in the corner,” Morrison said. “All those things that have nothing to do with scoring or shooting are way more important to for him to establish and get on the court, and then once he established those things where he can help the team in a positive manner without scoring, then we can worry about his shot selection.”
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