Pathora wrote:And yes, Goga is missed in the middle if he's as good as Pacers are saying. It's just 1 game so all these could be easily flip-flopped next game but I hope they can develop a couple of these guys into rotation guys.
It's only summer league so take it for what it's worth. This was probably my fourth game i've watched in the summer league, and i gotta say we were the worst team i've seen play. Small sample size, but it wasn't even close.
It shouldn't surprise anyone to be honest though. We're a team that was filled up just this past week. Many of these teams have draft picks from a few seasons ago still playing. The chemistry has to be difficult to get used to when most of these guys have never played with each other until a few days ago in the mini-camp back in Indianapolis.
I thought Bowen looked okay. Good hustle and good around the rim. Will like to see more of him in this tournament and in the G-league. Some of these other guys who came in hyped up like Demps, Jaylen Johnson and Akoon-Purcell were absolute terrible i thought.
Holiday was awesome, but i thought he had too many poor shots and too many silly turnovers. Someone tweeted (maybe Agness?) that coaches gave him the green light to do whatever he wanted offensively, but he got the ball stolen from him while driving in several times and sometimes when he had no good look, he just put up a prayer shot instead of being smart with the basketball. As good as Holiday was, there was moments i shaking my head too.
Sumner to me is a question mark still. His feet were still bothering him. And he was rusty. I'm not sure why they kept him out there as long as they did. The kid is strong, even after the hard fall, he got up and remained in the game, and then had another hard fall after he went to the basket. Then shortly after that they took him out. Tough to grade his game when i don't know how much effect his injury still had on him?
And lastly, on Goga (this is why i quoted this post afterall), i am not sure what people will expect he will do? Not just on realgm but i've also read it on twitter. Supposedly, he will arrive to Vegas sometime Monday. With all the jetleg from traveling, he will probably only get Tuesday to practice with the team. They have a early game on Wednesday so i can't imagine they will be doing any drills the day of the game. Will they even play him after one practice? Or just save him for the fourth game only?