Re: Trail Blazers Win Summer League Championship, Trendon Watford Named Championship MVP

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Sun Jul 17, 2022 10:56 pm

The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the New York Knicks to win the Las Vegas Summer League Championship. Blazers forward Trendon Watford was named MVP of the Championship Game. Overall Summer League MVP will be named on Monday.

Portland defeated New York 85-77 to win the title. Watford had 19 points, seven rebounds and three steals in the title game.

Via RealGM Staff Report

Johnny Bball · Post #2 » by **Johnny Bball** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:30 am

How do they calculate the winner and were the raptors, bulls 2nd and 3rd? thx.

jmbish87 · Post #3 » by **jmbish87** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:09 am

Johnny Bball wrote:How do they calculate the winner and were the raptors, bulls 2nd and 3rd? thx.

From news:
"The Knicks and Blazers finished their qualifying games with a 3-1 record and while five other teams held the same record (Raptors, Bucks, Celtics, Thunder, and Bulls), the Knicks and Blazers advanced to the championship game thanks to superior point differential."

I guess we can assume the next two teams who finished on point differential could be considered the 3rd and 4th.

Pickled Prunes · Post #4 » by **Pickled Prunes** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:28 am

I mean, it's not as great as winning a mid-season tournament... but it's got to be close! :lol:

GunnerWRX · Post #5 » by **GunnerWRX** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 5:03 pm

The Blazers have the Mickey Mouse MVP and now the summer league champ. :nod:

Post #6 » by **dougthonus** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 6:14 pm

jmbish87 wrote:
Johnny Bball wrote:How do they calculate the winner and were the raptors, bulls 2nd and 3rd? thx.

From news:
"The Knicks and Blazers finished their qualifying games with a 3-1 record and while five other teams held the same record (Raptors, Bucks, Celtics, Thunder, and Bulls), the Knicks and Blazers advanced to the championship game thanks to superior point differential."

I guess we can assume the next two teams who finished on point differential could be considered the 3rd and 4th.

It is pretty wonky, what they do is schedule every team for 4 games, then based on records they schedule everyone with a 5th game so the #1/#2 teams after four games play each other.

So the Blazers won that game, but it wasn't an extra game, so the Blazers, Raptors and Bulls all finished at 4-1, and probably should be considered the top 3 teams since it wasn't functional as a real tournament where advancing further had meaning.

Not that anyone gives a crap.