Summer League Thread

[rapsincr]

i still think martins dunk was more impressive than furphys. too bad he couldnt stick his 2nd one...i think that one would have been even better.

[Kevin Willis]

Chinese Jokic is not bad.

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[deeps6x]

i still think martins dunk was more impressive than furphys. too bad he couldnt stick his 2nd one...i think that one would have been even better.

Did Martins dunk break Sportscenter? (They were both real nice dunks)

https://local.newsbreak.com/total-pro-sports-313944020/4109473033734-video-sportscenter-hosts-couldn-t-even-finish-their-segment-as-ridiculous-highlight-left-them-laughing-uncontrollably-on-live-tv

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Couldn’t agree with this more. It’s why I don’t understand why everyone is so eager to make trades so space can be made for these young guys to get guaranteed minutes. No. None of them have proven anything yet to warrant that. Let them show what they’re made of when we’re actually trying to win. Let them show what they’re made of hopefully in a play-in and playoff setting first. Let them have some competition and have multiple people they have to beat out instead of just being given minutes they didn’t earn. THEN we can decide who should go and who should stay bc we will have a better idea of what each player is really about. The best players will rise to the top and it will be bc they earned it not because we had no one better so they were just gifted minutes. It’s great evaluation for the front office. Everyone wants good playable depth and then once we get it they want to get rid of it lol. This is a great problem to have.

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[bballsparkin]

Queen is going to have to improve his defending out at the three. The "I'm a let the big guy shoot" won't work in the NBA.

[PushDaRock]

Queen is going to have to improve his defending out at the three. The "I'm a let the big guy shoot" won't work in the NBA.

He really has no interest trying to play D out there and he's not talented enough offensively to get away with that.

[PushDaRock]

Yang does a lot of interesting stuff out there

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https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/with-roster-thin-at-centre-raptors-need-poeltl-to-keep-delivering-the-goods/

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[Mark_83]

How long before Lawson gets a Jamison Battle contract? Or should we wait until we've seen him do it during the regular season.

[dhackett1565]

How long before Lawson gets a Jamison Battle contract? Or should we wait until we've seen him do it during the regular season.

He has that, essentially. Just without the guarantee. Just has to not get waived. If he sticks on the roster, he's on a minimum deal just like Battle.

[RaptorLakerJay]

Hanseng and Filipowski are nasty.

[DreamTeam09]

Can someone make a chomche mix, I can't find one in YouTube, between last summer league, last gleague and this summer league there's enough footage of the guy

[NBA Sheady]

What's up with this board and trying to shame posters for their opinions on draft picks lately? I find it very weird and low-hanging fruit during a debate.

1. "Oh well, you didn't want Scottie Barnes".

2. "Well, you thought Suggs was gonna be a star"

3. "Ha, you wanted to draft player X over player Y."

Goofy behaviour.

I find it funny when people call others out as 'casuals' as if it is bad thing that people have a life outside of watching basketball.

IMO if you have an account on a message board you're obsessed. Guys are dithering over levels of obsession. There are no casuals here. We're nerds.

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Here are some takeaways through three games
This corner has repeated often the belief that Walter has a chance to be a really good NBA player and he has shown little in Vegas to disprove us of the notion.

He has averaged 18 points in 24 minutes a game (he averaged 11.6 in 24 minutes last summer), had seven steals against Denver and has also been active on the glass. Walter has been strong defensively, like most of his teammates, and looks the part of a strong two-way player.

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About the only thing you could quibble with is that Walter hasn’t shown much growth as a creator for others. He has only two assists and eight turnovers in the three games.

But on a team with Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram and Jakob Poeltl all able to blend play-making and scoring, in addition to the guards who can do that, we’re not sure Walter will really need to do much table-setting.

They will need pull-up three-point shooters (Immanuel Quickley and Ingram will be keys, but they need more beyond that) and Walter was hot on those types of shots on Tuesday. He looked comfortable pulling up against Denver and that needs to continue.

“Ja’Kobe, he’s a pup. And what I mean by that is, physically, he’s going to continue to grow mature, but all the natural talent ability is there,” Baylor coach Scott Drew had told us last July.

Prized rookie Collin Murray-Boyles looked more settled in his second game, which makes sense. A couple days earlier, he was playing for the first time in weeks after getting hurt during the pre-draft process, so the rust he showed was typical of a break like that.

After picking up eight fouls and five turnovers in his debut, MB only committed two fouls and had one turnover. MB also had three assists, including a nice one setting up a Walter three-pointer, another leading to a Walter layup off a nice cut and the other a casual flick to Walter for a three-pointer.

You also notice how the big man really gets after defensive rebounds. MB only had a couple in the game, but he clears out tons of space to grab them with his frame and saw him push both teammate and opponent out of the way. His swishing of a three-point attempt was notable too, given that’s seen as his main weakness.

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Chomche still is a teenager until Dec. 30, but he doesn’t really look like it anymore on the court. That’s a huge change from last July and from throughout his first season with Raptors 905 when he often looked, fittingly, like a deer in the headlights many nights as he tried to start to understand a sport he only has been playing since age 11.

The Cameroonian looks far more natural, especially on defence — his bread and butter and the reason Raptors staffers were so intrigued by him as a prospect.

But Chomche’s timing also is improving on offence. He made an impressive play in the first quarter that led to a bucket.

Chomche was being boxed out behind Toronto’s free-throw line when a Raptor attempted a three-point shot. It’s not often one gets an offensive rebound starting from that position, but Chomche moved 240-pound E.J. Liddell out of the way to grab it, then patiently pumped-fake the defender to the air, was fouled (without a call) and softly hit a soft jumper.

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Later, Chomche tried to get the ball in the paint, but was looked off despite being pretty open. He made sure to back out to not get called for three in the key and beat three Nuggets for an offensive rebound, put the ball in and this time got a foul call.

Finally, Chomche had his bench going absolutely berserk after blocking a shot, running the other way and getting the ball just over halfcourt, dribbling calmly into the paint before wrapping a pass around to MB for a dunk.

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