Game Thread Blazers vs Suns Summer League Game Thread

Ben Simmons is sick.

 

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Some of these DIMES Simmons is throwing are absolutely NUTS

 

By the way, Vonleh didn't have a great game, but I liked his aggression and he had a couple of very fluid moves on offense, a layup at the rim and a coast to coast play that were pretty impressive. It looks like he has worked on his handles considerably. He is still a work in progress, but he showed a couple of new things today, and summer league is a really good time to show off new esoteric things you have been working on.

 

From the distance of time Monia and Khryapa now sounds like some combination of a lung and gastrointestinal disease.....

 

He is a great facilitator. Going to be interesting to see if he can make that team better. Definitely lacking on the offensive end though, far from the LBJ many in the hoops world thought he would be.

 

Haha. I was thinking of some weird cross of dirty herpes and some weird Chinese bird born illness.

 

He looks like a better passer than Lebron was as a rookie, but Simmons needs to learn how to finish around the hoop. Looks confused about which hand to use to score around the basket.

 

Larry Nance Jr is getting MVP chants, LOL

 

1st... I got Monia which made me repeatedly rush to the bathroom for... the Khryapas!

 

Layman is going to be pretty good. His shot is nice. A lot of in and outs today. He's athletic. He's also smart on the defensive end.

Connaughton was meh. Disappointing. Looks the same as last year.

If Montero could ever develop a shot. He does look bigger though.

Vonleh was probably Portland's best player but nothing special.

 

MVP chants have essentially become, the most valuable player, in that game, at that moment.

 

The Suns had 2016 pick numbers 4, 8, 16, and 34 playing. We had no chance.

Montero made mistakes, as if his mind wasn't in the game. He's too thin.

My favorite player Bitchynski did nothing, but I still like his name.

Vonleh and Chriss fought today. Fights are rare in Summer League. The first SL technical foul ever was only 2 years ago (Jason Kidd).

Where were Napier and Alexander? Pierre had to start. Cliff needs badly to be on a Summer League team to have any chance at getting a contract. I hope it wasn't pride that caused his absence.

Layman, listed at 6-9, is barely 6-8 but a good dribbler. Although a couple of inches shorter than Vonleh, Layman has good instincts and is no Leonard.

Russ Smith looked like our most polished player today.

He made many name mistakes (e.g. saying Bosh left us last summer for the Spurs). Stotts pointed that one out during his interview and the guy tried to laugh them off for several minutes thereafter.

I've complained for at least 6 Summer Leagues about NBA-TV's interminable interviews. The producers are bored by the sport of basketball and divert us from play-by-play for most of the game. Every single game, I am pissed off that the announcer won't announce the names of the unknown SL players...total confusion during the stupid interview. And today, they did TWO interviews.

 

Layman reminds me EXACTLY of Claver. Looks like a player, has a nice stroke, but can't make a shot

 

Just watched Simmons. WOW. That kid's got passing and vision.

 

Someone else brought it up. defended your opinion. Obviously it's hard to see down the road but you were defending it after the fact so I disagreed. I poked holes in the arguments you were making now.. That's all. Then you got super defensive. So defensive that I think you should play for the Blazers.

BTW, Crabbe was a rookie three years ago. Not much sample size to go off of. Which circles back to the fact that it's only one game bruh.

 

Some people get nervous when something big happens, like their first ever NBA game of any type (Layman hopefully) and some people are always going to be the shivering bitch (Claver)

 

Fair point. Layman may have missed some shots, but he looked fluid in the offense and active on defense. I think with work he could be a big 3 or a stretch 4 off of the bench. Think about a young
Lou Amundson with room to learn and grow.

 

I watched one of his workout videos with the Blazers and he was automatic from mid range. I still do dumb shit at my job once in a while but it is easy now for the most part. Just another day. One bad shooting summer league game doesn't mean jack if he looked good otherwise.