RealGM

Hi all!

The last few years I've dropped a bunch of notes from Summer League. This year we broke them up by conference! Here is the West:

https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/250909/2018-Western-Conference-Summer-League-Notes

I learned a lot. And not just that I don't enjoy transcription!

Hope you enjoy!

Smitty

Appreciate the effort, but wouldn't say that SGA can't shoot at all.

Undrafted big man Angel Delgado showed he’ll be a plus rebounder as a pro and a rugged interior defender. He struggled on the perimeter though.

Sorry, he showed me nothing until the very end when we were playing squads even worse than ours, and I was pulling for him.

On trading Austin Rivers for Marcin Gortat: “We had a feeling we might lose DJ (DeAndre Jordan) and need to make sure we had a starting center. We’ve got a million guards. This was a basketball trade. Washington needed a guard off the bench and Austin will be great for them. We needed a big who can play and got one.”

That would be Doc speaking. I'd have been a big supporter of this trade even if all I cared about what's best for Austin. We have a glut of similar SGs [Avery, Pat Bev and even Sindarius if he learns to shoot--not to mention Jerome]. And The Wizz have two all-star caliber guards who don't seem to be able to jell together. If Wall and Austin jell better [or even almost as well], Beal could fetch a helluva bounty in trade to address other holes. Even if Austin simply fits in as the first guard off the bench, he's found a home. There was really nothing at LAC for him.