1: Mad Dog needs a lot of work before he coaches again. Why was Buycks and Mitchell playing over Munford and Nance?
2: That start of the first game felt like a playoff game. That was pretty awesome
3: I seem to be in the minority, but I did not enjoy watching Randle bring the ball up the floor like he's Lebron James. Except for that time when he dished to Russell on the fastbreak, which made me think that I was watching LO for a second.
4: Clarkson was physically dominant against the SL scrubs, but he ball hogged a lot. The offense seemed to stop whenever he had the ball.
5: Jabari Brown was basically Clarkson-lite, minus the physically dominant part. He's got tunnel-vision.
6: Anthony Brown could've been better. He missed a lot of shots, and played meh defense (at least from my perspective).
7: Those refs during the last game really needed to stop calling everything. It killed the flow of the game
8: The announcers were almost as awful as Madsen's coaching. Especially Aldridge; he doesn't the voice for commentating.
9: There were so many Laker fans at the games.
10: Larry Nance was energetic, but didn't have much of an impact outside of maybe 2 games. I can see him becoming a fan-favorite though.
11: I thought that Tarik Black did a decent job on defense and on the boards. But man, he's a fouling machine. I thought that Upshaw showed flashes of being a good defender (he stuffed Towns, Okafor, and Porzingis in consecutive games
), but he looks like he's moving in quicksand out there.12: Dwight Buycks was AWFUL. He was a ball-hog who couldn't make anything. His defense great either.
13: I enjoyed the short commercial breaks in-between quarters. They should be that short during the real season.
14: WTF was that abomination of an offense supposed to accomplish? Every possession would start with Russell (or Clarkson/Buycks) dribbling the ball to the top of the arc. Then the PG would pass the ball to a big with no perimeter shot like Nance on the wing. After 5 seconds of the bigman trying to find a guard to take the ball out of his hands, the clock would be at 8 seconds, and the offense would go into iso mode. Or they would just dribble the ball up the floor and go into iso immediately. Awful stuff to watch.
15: Munford didn't play a lot, but he seemed to do well whenever he got an opportunity to do something.
16: Russell had a very uneven summer league, with a TON of turnovers. However, i'm not sure how many were his fault and how many were a product of the awful coaching/teammates. At times, he seemed to be too passive. Until the last game, he never seemed to be in attack mode AKA he didn't try to get to the basket and get fouled. You could see the potential though: he made some sick passes and that mid-range shot looks very reliable. His defense was much better than I thought it would be.
17: More about the coaching: D'angelo Russell is absolutely on fire in the final quarter, and you'd think that most coaches would have the offense run through him after that. But NNNNNOOOOO, instead, Mad Dog doesn't have Russell touch the ball at all during the last 3 and a half minutes. Is coaching really that difficult?! If you have a player who's got it goin', then you give him the ball!
18: I wish that we still had Pringles as the coach. It hurt me to type that.
19: I'm overreacting to meaningless summer league games, aren't I?
20: Who else is excited for the upcoming season
My mistake. I'll fix it now.
