![]() I was in Las Vegas for nine days(!) and saw far too much bad basketball, but in between, there was just enough quality to keep me sated. Nonetheless, we had some genuinely good stuff to talk about from the summer league, developments I think have legs beyond July. You have to take a Mike James, Carsen Edwards or Josh Selby summer scoring blitz with an entire pillar of salt. Did Player X really establish anything different about himself, or did he just happen to have an outlier good (or bad) shooting week?Īnd second, because there is a particular type of player - the undersized but fast and thirsty scoring guard - who tends to go bananas in summer league and then prove near-worthless when we try to play real basketball in the fall. First, it’s so easy to overreact to shooting variance when it’s such a brief schedule. It’s also hard to talk about summer league for two other reasons. At least he got in two full games Scoot Henderson and Amen Thompson didn’t even make it all the way through their openers, robbing us of seeing half the top four picks. The swarms that showed up for his opener on July 7 were streaming into the Cleveland-Brooklyn game next door by halftime his second game did better at living up to the hype, but then it was a wrap. Wembanyama’s brief run also made the “Summer of Wemby” less of a thing beyond the first weekend. The “two-and-done” program was particularly popular for second-year players - Murray, Jabari Smith Jr., Jaden Ivey, Bennedict Mathurin, Jalen Duren, AJ Griffin, Tari Eason, Andrew Nembhard, Peyton Watson, Caleb Houstan and Moussa Diabate all followed it. ![]() Monroe: Wembanyama Summer League experience is over, and the Spurs breathe a sigh of relief (The 10 teams that played in the California Classic or Salt Lake City Summer League got a couple of extra games, but those teams all rotated players too.) That makes it a bit harder to write a column like today’s, where I talk about the success stories of summer league, because so many of them will be based on small sample sizes … even smaller than the five-game run that is the limit for roughly two-thirds of the league. THE CAVS ARE YOUR #NBA2KSummerLeague CHAMPIONS!!!□□□ /2PxpnF4cIz Underscoring the trend, Sacramento’s Keegan Murray was shut down before he even got to Las Vegas after shredding Miami for 41 in the second game of the California Classic. The reward for success, invariably, is that the team shuts down the player after a couple of games. ![]() Here’s the thing about summer league: It’s virtually impossible to put up big numbers over the entirety of the, um, “season.”Įven with a five-game arc (or six, for the two teams that made Monday’s final), the most successful players rarely play out the entire schedule.
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