Game Thread 2025 SL GAME #3 - BLAZERS VS PELICANS - JULY 15, 2025 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM PST - ESPN - ESPN+

Feels like Yang gets about 10% of the 50/50 loose balls or rebounds.

 

Something he definitely needs to work on
Maybe adjusting to the NBA game ball. It's not all that easy to grip

 

True.

 

You had me at Dr Steve

 

Burt Kolde sitting court side tonight...

 

Great game by Hansen and Rupert.

Blazers do get out rebounded by about a dozen.

Hansen is like Rolo where he boxes out decent but can't grab the ball himself. I'm wondering if it might be very hard to play him with Grant though because Grant certainty ain't grabbing any of those boards.

 

I think it's safe to safe those two are unlikely to play a lot of minutes together, so we won't have to worry about that.

 

I love summer league takes like this!

 

You know Chauncey and Joe were like, "This motherfucker has to come to Vegas too?!?" Dude is sitting right next to them. That has to suck for both Joe and Chauncey to be micromanaged the way Joe described at the trade deadline... and you'd think it would have stopped after the team went on the market. SMH

 

Can't wait for the team to sell.

I'm all for seeing what Cronin/Billups can do without Kolde/Vulcan/Jody whatever the hell ownership it is we have right now.

 

Why do you think that? I had assumed they'd be the two bench bigs that come in. Hoping you don't mean because it's Grant starting.

 

Have to vent on the ESPN crew just a bit.

First, today was the second time I watched them put up the graphic of our depth chart with Toumani as our backup shooting guard. They didn't put anyone on the depth chart twice.

Second, the guys announcing interviewed Chauncy at halftime and didn't seem to know very much about the Blazers. I guess I get it. They're doing all these games and preparation for these interviews probably isn't high on the priority list. They don't follow the team like we do. But it is annoying.

 

I think the odds are greater than Yang is 3rd string and Grant is starting, than both of them being second unit guys.

There are 8 guys on this roster who probably think they should start, so it's going to be interesting how to all plays out.

 

Meh... you put Deni in there with the two of them and he'd feast plus Yang will rebound, he's just too big not to. He will need time with everything but I like what it seems like he could be.

 

I'm fully prepared for Yang to get DNP's to start the season if Robert Williams is healthy. And I'm not knocking Yang...

 

I’m going to say: Summer League shooting is so bad it’s actually harder for good players to rebound because the shots don’t look like professional shots.