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The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:43 pm
by Luv those Knicks
PF/C: Jericho Sims - had a solid rookie year for the late 2nd rounder. (fixed the spelling error I had in his name)

Other PF/C: (?)

SF: Trevor Keels. Physical swingman type. Will be fun to watch.

SG: Quentin Grimes - saw 17 minutes a game over 46 games, and missed time due to an injury or would have played more. Shot 38% form 3. Solid rookie season.

PG/combo guard: Miles McBride: Didn't play that much, but dominated the G league for the 6 games he played there - taking 9 3s a game, LOL, but he hit half of them. 27.7 PPG. Can he do that in the Summer league? How much more competitive is the Summer league than the G league? A fair bit I would think. Summer league has a lot of players who are too good for the G league.

PG: Jean Montero . . . I'm guessing Montero won't start, but he should see a fair amount of playing time. Will be interesting to see how he does against real competition instead of a league of 16-18 year olds.

I don't know if McBride , Grimes and Simms will carry them. I suspect they'll get more L's than W's, but I look forward to watching anyway.

Who am I missing who's definitely going to be there?

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:48 pm
by JXL
Is Louis Labia going?

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:52 pm
by thebuzzardman
:D

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:33 pm
by TerrenceClarke
I will be watching other teams summer league games not the Knicks. Who the hell will be excited to see a full back playing basketball

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:38 pm
by stuporman
I hope they sign Orlando Robinson as an UFA because it would be nice to have someone over 6-9 who can shoot further from the basket than as tall as they are for a change.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:11 pm
by DaGawd
This might be one of the more uninspiring summer league teams we’ve had in recent memory… thanks Leon

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:13 am
by HighRyzer83
As long as Wayne Seldon isn't invited.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:22 am
by Jalen Bluntson
When is SL?

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:59 am
by Luv those Knicks
Are We Ther Yet wrote:When is SL?


Easy enough to look up, but I'll post here.

July 7th.

First Knicks game is July 8th. This is, ofcourse, subject to change.

https://www.nba.com/news/2022-nba-summer-league-schedules-las-vegas-san-francisco-and-salt-lake-city

Last year we had two players named Simms, which was odd.

For anyone saying "boring", I disagree. Grimes & McBride can light it up. They may not be superstars, but they're good summer league players. Simms may be a bit of a put/back player on offense and defender type in the mold of a less athletic, slightly thicker Mitchell Robinson, but that ain't bad and Keels was an effective college player who can still out muscle most of the players he plays against.

Montero might be outmatched against older and more experienced players, but he'll probably be a fun player to watch anyway.

I disagree that there's no reason to watch, even if it's a bunch of bench players, I'm looking forward to seeing McBride lead the team, and shoot a million 3s while hounding the other team on defense. I'm sure he wants to make an impression.

Sometimes players make a jump between year one and year two. Obi did.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:05 am
by Jalen Bluntson
Luv those Knicks wrote:
Are We Ther Yet wrote:When is SL?


Easy enough to look up, but I'll post here.

July 7th.

First Knicks game is July 8th. This is, ofcourse, subject to change.


https://www.nba.com/news/2022-nba-summer-league-schedules-las-vegas-san-francisco-and-salt-lake-city

Last year we had two players named Simms, which was odd.

For anyone saying "boring", I disagree. Grimes & McBride can light it up. They may not be superstars, but they're good summer league players. Simms may be a bit of a put/back player on offense a
nd defender type in the mold of a less athletic, slightly thicker Mitchell Robinson, but that ain't bad and Keels was an effective college player who can still out muscle most of the players he plays against.

Montero might be outmatched against older and more experienced players, but he'll probably be a fun player to watch anyway.

I disagree that there's no reason to watch, even if it's a bunch of bench players, I'm looking forward to seeing McBride lead the team, and shoot a million 3s while hounding the other team on defense. I'm sure he wants to make an impression.

Sometimes players make a jump between year one and year two. Obi did.


Last year we had a player named Simms and a player named Sims. Sims played on the pro club at times. Simms I don't recall ever seeing.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:22 am
by Luv those Knicks
Are We Ther Yet wrote:
Last year we had a player named Simms and a player named Sims. Sims played on the pro club at times. Simms I don't recall ever seeing.


Ah. That explains why the box score didn't put first initials. I still managed to get them mixed up. Silly me.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:02 am
by Juggynaut
Hopefully Montero got chips on his shoulders and show out. The summer league environment is the place for him to excell.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:31 am
by HighRyzer83
Nah, I'd watch for Grimes and McBride alone. I think grimes will dominate and carry that over to the season. Like Obi did last year.

Hopefully there won't be too many chuckers that nobody cares about taking his shots.

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 4:04 am
by Spree2Houston
Atleast Grimes and McBride will get to show out. Last year IQ was hogging up all the shots

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:17 pm
by NYKnickerbocker
DaGawd wrote:This might be one of the more uninspiring summer league teams we’ve had in recent memory… thanks Leon

Wasn’t there a season were Maurice Ndour or cleanthony early were the summer league hopefuls lol. This won’t be that bad

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:03 pm
by Polk377
Any other confirmed names after Montero?

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:29 pm
by thebuzzardman
Polk377 wrote:Any other confirmed names after Montero?


They signed some big scrub who went to a couple of colleges

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:46 pm
by Polk377
thebuzzardman wrote:
Polk377 wrote:Any other confirmed names after Montero?


They signed some big scrub who went to a couple of colleges

You just narrowed it down to me and everyone else :lol:

Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:04 pm
by Dave DaButcher
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Re: The "too early?" Knicks Summer League Thread

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:07 pm
by Richard4444