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NBA Summer League Wild Overreaction Thread

Tre looking really good. Brooklyn are focusing on him with their defense. Trying to deny the ball and pressure him to get the ball out of his hands and sending doubles.
Nothing is really working.

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Tre led the team in scoring (21 points on 11 shots), and led the team in plus/minus.
They were going to him down the stretch of a close game. He played good defense and got to the line a lot. And the announcer said he is playing though a groin injury too.
Tre played great in both his games so far.

Sarr had 8 blocks lol

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I think one of the things that’s helped me mostly check out from the draft over the past few years is the inflated value placed on the perceived physical or “unteachable” components of a player. It becomes the most alluring thing that distracts from certain smaller issues like… can someone actually play basketball. The physical tools combined with all the other fundamentals obviously gives you really high ceiling guys, but a lot of guys come and go while having all the ‘tantalizing’ physical tools but lack the most essential: being able to play basketball. I don’t know how many boners have flown over the years for guys like Saer Sene, Jan Vesely, or Bismack Biyombo. The year we landed 5th and got Exum I definitely didn’t see anything but hoped for the best on “Australian Kobe” hype and didn’t have any other choice. But I’d imagine everyone (GMs, pundits, and fans) would do much, much better in their drafting fantasies if they were running a track and field franchise rather than a basketball one. Guys like Darius Miles get drooled over and coveted until we learn 4-5 years down the road that they don’t really play basketball that well, when it seemed obvious from the get go.

This is the overreaction thread and I’m kind of agnostic on the whole thing. But Tre is a guy who can play basketball. I hope we’ve made the right choice and that the experts see something that my non-expert *** didn’t, but I hope we didn’t pass on him because we’re trying to run a track and field franchise and couldn’t see him as an actual basketball player because he wasn’t giving us physicality boners.
 
The knock on Tre on Jazzfanz was that he didnt get stocks. He isnt a stock broker.

Having said that, he looked like he would be a go to scoring threat that maybe couldnt play defense or help his team out. That may not be far from the reality.
Ace looks like he has 2 way abilities but is a much less finished product.
 
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The knock on Tre on Jazzfanz was that he didnt get stocks. He isnt a stock broker.

Having said that, he looked like he would be a go to scoring threat that maybe couldnt play defense or help his team out. That may not be far from the reality.
Ace looks like he has 2 way abilities but is a much less finished product.
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not just that, but we kept hearing about how he couldn't get to the rim, didn't draw fouls, couldn't finish at the rim, etc. just one more example of how we overthink things too much. if you're a frosh and you average 20 ppg in the SEC, you can probably play. add positional size and nba athleticism, yeah, you don't need to go much further than that.
 
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