2025 Summer League

JWizmentality · Post #241 » by **JWizmentality** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:10 am

I know it's just Summer League but there's no pretty spin on basically our starting 5 getting blasted by a put together team.

prime1time · Post #242 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:11 am

Wizards looked like a disaster. Give credit to the suns but the Wizards looked like a bunch of random guys out there. No cohesion. No collective goal. Everyone doing their own thing.

With that being said, George looked good and Johnson looked good. The Wizards need to develop Tre so he becomes more than just a scorer. We need him to play defense and make the extra pass.

AFM · Post #243 » by **AFM** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:11 am

Leaky Black sounds like a gay pornstar. Is that his real name?

prime1time · Post #244 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:13 am

JWizmentality wrote:I know it's just Summer League but there's no pretty spin on basically our starting 5 getting blasted by a put together team.

Don't need to spin it. We have a team where our young guys still think they'll be stars. So we don't pass the ball. It's fun to have a team where a bunch of players can initiate but that means that we need good coaching.

NatP4 · Post #245 » by **NatP4** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:17 am

prime1time wrote:Wizards looked like a disaster. Give credit to the suns but the Wizards looked like a bunch of random guys out there. No cohesion. No collective goal. Everyone doing their own thing.

With that being said, George looked good and Johnson looked good. The Wizards need to develop Tre so he becomes more than just a scorer. We need him to play defense and make the extra pass.

Yeah, didn’t see much off ball movement or participation on the defensive end from Tre. Few plays where he didn’t even cross half court to get back and defend, just stood around watching.

The isolation scoring&tough shot making is impressive. If he can just give effort on defense and learn to play offense off the ball, sky is the limit.

NatP4 · Post #246 » by **NatP4** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:19 am

George looks like a quality NBA rotation player. No need to play him in the Summer League.

Sarr flashed his incredible talent level in the 2nd half. If he played like that for the 1st half, he would be another “shut it down” candidate.

spaceman_E · Post #247 » by **spaceman_E** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:22 am

Ky looks like he could be a legit starter. Bub has no position. Sarr same weaknesses as previous. Tre belongs but how is he not just taller Poole?

prime1time · Post #248 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:26 am

One thing we can definitively say is that Tre Johnson looks like the real deal. Multiple times he was open and his teammates didn't pass him the ball. Tre was 3-5 from 3. The rest of the team was 6-30 from 3. On a day with bad floor spacing, Tre made it look easy. It's going to be hard to keep his scoring down. If we breakdown his game a little further one of the concerns about his game was his finishing. In the first half he had a great finish over Maluach high on the glass.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #249 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:28 am

SUPERBALLMAN wrote:I don't think we have to worry about losing our pick.

Remember when I said I thought this team had too much talent to be a tank team?

Forget the too much talent part.

We still havn't seen Middleton, McCollum, Smart, and Champagnie; but this crew looks not ready for pime time. I didn't get to watch but the box score looks horrific.

https://www.nba.com/game/was-vs-phx-1522500013/box-score

prime1time · Post #250 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:34 am

spaceman_E wrote:Ky looks like he could be a legit starter. Bub has no position. Sarr same weaknesses as previous. Tre belongs but how is he not just taller Poole?

Poole didn't play off ball. At 19 Poole was averaging 12.8 ppg 2.2 ast and 3 rebounds at Michigan. Tre Johnson was just the most efficient Wizards player and also our youngest player. For him to be doing this as a rookie is very impressive. The Wizards literally couldn't buy a 3. Give credit to the Suns they packed in the defense. But we should Tre's night in perspective. Even with the defense helping off of shooters he made over 50% of his shots.

7/13 from the field 3/5 from 3.

Compare him to other young players in summer league.
Coooper Flagg was 5/21.
Kon Knueppel was 1/8

It's always funny how people insist on downplaying players. He looked good and leave it at that. Btw, for the season Poole only had 10 games where he made 53.8% on his fg's or more.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #251 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:34 am

AFM wrote:Leaky Black sounds like a gay pornstar. Is that his real name?

Leaky Black sounds like a male exotic dancer who received the infamous "P Diddy baby oil white room special" after his drink was drugged.

TGW · Post #252 » by **TGW** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:36 am

AJ Johnson looked like the best guard to me. He was actually trying to attack the paint. And yea, this team is going to be awful this season...no worries about that pick not conveying.

prime1time · Post #253 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:39 am

It's fun to hate on Sarr but his summer league should be put into context. Wizards couldn't space the floor. 9/35 from 3. In addition our guards were aggressive at hunting their own shots instead of passing the ball. With that being said Sarr looked solid.

Read on Twitter

His jump hook near the end of the game is one that he's clearly worked on very hard. The mechanics on his 3 ball also look very good. It's good to have a team where everyone can initiate but you still need good coaching to create order out of the chaos. Sarr got lost in the wash and you could see it in his body language at the timeout before the end of the first half.

prime1time · Post #254 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:41 am

TGW wrote:AJ Johnson looked like the best guard to me. He was actually trying to attack the paint. And yea, this team is going to be awful this season...no worries about that pick not conveying.

He looked better than Tre Johnson? What are we saying lol. AJ shot 26.7% from 3 this year and just went 0-3 from 3 tonight. You really think he looked like the best guard? Johnson is explosive but his shot is major question mark.

prime1time · Post #255 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:42 am

prime1time wrote:It's fun to hate on Sarr but his summer league should be put into context. Wizards couldn't space the floor. 9/35 from 3. In addition our guards were aggressive at hunting their own shots instead of passing the ball. With that being said Sarr looked solid.

Read on Twitter

His jump hook near the end of the game is one that he's clearly worked on very hard. The mechanics on his 3 ball also look very good. It's good to have a team where everyone can initiate but you still need good coaching to create order out of the chaos. Sarr got lost in the wash and you could see it in his body language at the timeout before the end of the first half.

What we saw form Sarr is how easy it is for him to get 20 points. You don't have to give him much. A couple baskets in transition. A couple pick and pop 3's. A couple lobs. And then he just finds a couple other shots.

NatP4 · Post #256 » by **NatP4** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:42 am

It would be beneficial to have an actual PG running the offense and creating advantages/forcing defensive rotations. AJ Johnson was the only guard that actually got into the paint and scored/made some nice kick out passes for open 3s.

prime1time · Post #257 » by **prime1time** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:44 am

It'll be very telling how they come out and play next game. This was embarrassing.

Jay81 · Post #258 » by **Jay81** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:47 am

NatP4 wrote:George is too good for Summer League. Don’t think he should play another game.

Agree. Plus he is shooting too much lol

spaceman_E · Post #259 » by **spaceman_E** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:50 am

prime1time wrote:
spaceman_E wrote:Ky looks like he could be a legit starter. Bub has no position. Sarr same weaknesses as previous. Tre belongs but how is he not just taller Poole?

Poole didn't play off ball. At 19 Poole was averaging 12.8 ppg 2.2 ast and 3 rebounds at Michigan. Tre Johnson was just the most efficient Wizards player and also our youngest player. For him to be doing this as a rookie is very impressive. The Wizards literally couldn't buy a 3. Give credit to the Suns they packed in the defense. But we should Tre's night in perspective. Even with the defense helping off of shooters he made over 50% of his shots.

7/13 from the field 3/5 from 3.

Compare him to other young players in summer league.
Coooper Flagg was 5/21.
Kon Knueppel was 1/8

It's always funny how people insist on downplaying players. He looked good and leave it at that. Btw, for the season Poole only had 10 games where he made 53.8% on his fg's or more.

I'm saying current Poole. but ok he is an elite shot maker, he puts up 25ppg on 65% TS 1 rebound 1 assist with horrible defense, how is that a winning player archetype? He plays like a 6th man. Curious what is the vision on him on a 50 win team? Garland? Booker?

Jay81 · Post #260 » by **Jay81** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:51 am

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:
SUPERBALLMAN wrote:I don't think we have to worry about losing our pick.

Remember when I said I thought this team had too much talent to be a tank team?

Forget the too much talent part.

We still havn't seen Middleton, McCollum, Smart, and Champagnie; but this crew looks not ready for pime time. I didn't get to watch but the box score looks horrific.

https://www.nba.com/game/was-vs-phx-1522500013/box-score

It was worse than the box score