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Smitty: 2019 Western Conference Offseason Chatter From Summer League

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Smitty: 2019 Western Conference Offseason Chatter From Summer League 

Post#1 » by mkwest » Fri Jul 26, 2019 11:19 pm

2019 Western Conference Offseason Chatter From Summer League

Opposing executive on the Clippers roster: “They are really, really deep. They’ve got 10 quality guys. That’s big in a couple of ways. In games, you can mix and match to whatever you need. And when guys have to miss games, you’ve got more than enough depth. They probably need another big, but they’ll figure that out. Maybe a pure backup point guard, but they can figure that out too.”

Opposing coach on going against the Clippers new look: “First, how do you score? They’ve got three All-Defense guys in the starting five. Green is an underrated defender too. You’re going to have to run really crisp stuff or have amazing talent to get points on them. On the other end, they could be hard to guard too. You probably want to force them to shoot jumpers, but it’s not like those guys are bad shooters. It’s certainly the best Clippers team I’ve seen in my 30-plus years in the NBA.”


Opposing executive on the Thunder’s future: “It would be really nice to have that many picks, wouldn’t it? (laughs) I mean you can do almost anything with that. And they might have their next franchise guy in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to build around. We made a call on him, because you call on everyone, and the Clippers told us no way. And this was early in free agency. So, obviously they were high on him. I think Oklahoma City will be ok. They’ll be bad for a year or two, but after that, they might be terrific again.”


Keith Smith, RealGM


As most of you probably know, Smitty does write-ups on information that he has collected at summer league from coaches, execs, scouts, etc. There are notes for each team (including a few more for the Clips in the link).

For anyone interested, here are the Eastern Conferences notes
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Re: Smitty: 2019 Western Conference Offseason Chatter From Summer League 

Post#2 » by TheNewEra » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:17 pm

Great read
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Western Conference Summer League Chatter 

Post#3 » by Smitty731 » Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:34 am

Hey All!

As I do annually, I emptied out the notebook and recorder from Summer League. Here is everything from the Western Conference teams:

https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/255028/2019-Western-Conference-Offseason-Chatter-From-Summer-League

Enjoy!

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Re: Western Conference Summer League Chatter 

Post#4 » by esqtvd » Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:35 am

Smitty731 wrote:Hey All!

As I do annually, I emptied out the notebook and recorder from Summer League. Here is everything from the Western Conference teams:

https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/255028/2019-Western-Conference-Offseason-Chatter-From-Summer-League

Enjoy!

Smitty



well done, Smitty, and thank you

the only reason you're not getting more [well-deserved] props is that our own moderator MKWest already posted your stuff here


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