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NBA Summer League Wild Overreaction Thread

I watched the Hawks/Grizzlies game. It feels like one of the few games left with multiple potential NBA players playing.

My guy Javon Small looked great. A true point guard, always looking to make the right play, with enough self creation to keep guys honest. I think he can be a rotation player.

The guy that has impressed me the most in summer league is Jahmai Mashak. He was obviously going to be a great defender, but he's shown that he can play on the offensive end as well.

GG Jackson is capable of looking like a super star in the NBA at times and like a scrub in summer league at times. He's got a wide range.

Cam Spencer wasn't great this game.

Asa Newell looks like he will be a rotation player. I'm not sure he'll be anything more, but he moves really well for his size.

Durisic looked pretty bad.

Bufkin was just ok, which isn't great for a third year player, but maybe he shouldn't be considered a third year player with all his injuries.
 
Watched CMB and Kas on replay this morning.

CMB was great. Very reminiscent of South Carolina where everyone around him was terrible, and he was the only one on his team that could do anything. He actually made a 3. Seems like everyone is being asked to take a lot of 3s in summer league.

Kas had a better game than his stats suggest. He has surprisingly been very good defensively in summer league, even picking guys up 90 feet from the basket. He should have had at least 5 more assists. He made a bunch of beautiful plays and his team couldn't do anything with it. In the end he's going to have to shoot 3's much better than he has. The foul drawing is translating so far, but so are the turnovers. He just makes too many careless passes, and has to clean that up.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Watched CMB and Kas on replay this morning.

CMB was great. Very reminiscent of South Carolina where everyone around him was terrible, and he was the only one on his team that could do anything. He actually made a 3. Seems like everyone is being asked to take a lot of 3s in summer league.

Kas had a better game than his stats suggest. He has surprisingly been very good defensively in summer league, even picking guys up 90 feet from the basket. He should have had at least 5 more assists. He made a bunch of beautiful plays and his team couldn't do anything with it. In the end he's going to have to shoot 3's much better than he has. The foul drawing is translating so far, but so are the turnovers. He just makes too many careless passes, and has to clean that up.
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Where are you on Kas vs Clayton jr?
 
SoberasHotRod said:
WCJ is much safer. He can really shoot it and is a much better ball handler.

I think Kas has more upside as a guy who I think will eventually really shoot it, is taller, and has moments of incredible vision/passing/creativity
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Kas was still 18 about a month ago. WCJ should be much better than Kas at this point because he’s more than three years older. I like both of them, but we'll see.
 
str8line said:
How this dude went 16 I'll never know.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGPAuoU6E0
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The HORRENDOUS ad at the beginning of that video made me spontaneously go to youtube and block that channel. Ugh.

That said, he seems to have good court awareness, and his ability to track the ball for a block is solid, although none of those attempts were serious NBA-level shot attempts, so take it all with grain of salt. The give and go later in the video was solid, but also pretty basic. Yeah most of his assists were very basic, get the ball wait for the double, dump the ball and hope they hit the shot. Not sure how much of this shows up in real games, maybe 40% if lucky, probably closer to 20%. We'll see if he can play up to the level of the competition.
 
I saw an interesting blub on Hoops Rumors. Isiah Wong and some other players held a free agent workout in Vegas and his agent said that they and the Jazz held discussions with the Jazz which were "productive". He was a 2nd round pick of the Pacers in 2023, had a two way deal with the Pacers in 23-24, played with the Stars for awhile last season, signed with the Hornets played 20 games averaged 6 ppg and then finished the season in Europe. Could this be a two way slot or did some of our guards play themselves off the roster?
 
KqWIN said:
Somehow Jase Richardson, the 25th pick of the draft, is only capable of playing 2 games in SL but he was great regardless.
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In the past I've tried to make sure and watch at least one SL game per rookie. There are a bunch of guys this year that I haven't seen yet, including Jase.
 
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