Summer League 2018: who you excited about the most?

Unfortunately, PapaG has looked worse than Meyers Leonard, and he's doing it against summer league "talent". So far, I have not seen him do one single thing better than Meyers Leonard, and if that isn't damning, I don't know what is.

Yeah, I know summer league is typically a guard dominated league, but Papagiannis has looked horrible at both ends of the court.

No way does this guy make the team let alone crack the rotation.

BNM

 

Really going out on a limb there.

 

Just responding to your claim that: "he could really push not only for a spot on the roster, but the backup center job."

I take it you've changed your stance?

BNM

 

Congrats on responding a week later, after summer league, real convenient.

 

Sorry, I prefer to actually wait to see a player play basketball before assessing his strengths and weaknesses.

Not one single thing you said about Papagiannis turned out to be true. I guess that explains why you are being so defensive.

BNM

 

“I prefer hindsight so I can condescend others.”

 

How was my original post condescending to you?

It was critical of Papagiannis, and I started it with the word "unfortunately" as in unfortunately, he's not as good as hoped.

BNM

 

Pretty acurrate.

 

I CALLED IT! MVP OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!

 

And as I've said in other posts, you can dominate lower levels just with pure athleticism. And KJ proved that tonight.

 

I AM DOMINATING THIS THREAD WITH PURE ATHLETICISM !

 

FTFY

 

The letters in "superciliousness" rearrange to "u penis sclerosis, u."

 

Still Simons

 

I think both rookies Trent and Simons held up really well against older players. I think Trent might hit the rotation by January. But it really going depends how Nik play's. Or if one our small forwards goes down. Simons will have little more difficult to crack the rotation when he behind few more players but that alright it will be his year to learn.

 

Related question: who on the SL team do you see cracking the regular rotation?

 

Collins.
Baldwin
Layman (maybe)

This is how our minutes were broken down last season:

Dame 36 MPG
CJ 36 MPG
Aminu 30 MPG
Nurk 27 MPG
Turner 25.7 MPG
Harkless 21.4 MPG
Shabazz 20.7 MPG
Ed Davis 19 MPG
Patty C 18 MPG
Collins 16 MPG

I think Dame and CJ stay around 36 minutes per game.
Aminu at 30 still makes sense.
I'm hoping that Nurk's minutes go up to at least 30.
Turner at 25-26 MPG is fine.
Harkless should be playing at least 30 MPG.
Napier is gone
Davis is gone
Patty is gone
Collins should go up to 25 minutes per game.

So......

Dame 36 - leaves 12 minutes at point guard
CJ 36 - leaves 12 minutes at shooting guard
Harkless 30 - leaves 18 minutes at small forward
Aminu 30 - leaves 18 minutes at power forward
Nurk 30 - leaves 18 minutes at center

That's what I think the starting rotation could/should look like.

Bench
Baldwin
Curry
Turner
Collins
Meyers? Biggie?

Unknowns
Layman
Stauskas

You want to get Collins minutes, and enough that it's impactful, so if you give him 12 minutes at power forward and 12 at center, that's 24 minutes of gameplay. That's not bad. That leaves 12 minutes total between those positions for someone else.

Turner is going to get his minutes, and unfortunately if you give him both the available minutes from the guard positions that puts him around his average for last season. Or you could give him the backup small forward minutes and some of the shooting guard minutes to get to around 25 minutes and still have 19ish minutes for another guard like Curry or Baldwin. So.... maybe?

Dame 36 / Baldwin 12
CJ 36 / Turner 7 / Baldwin 5
Harkless 30 / Turner 18
Aminu 30 / Collins 18
Nurk 30 / Collins 7 / Meyers 11 minutes

That's a 9 man rotation. However, maybe they don't want to play Baldwin and instead give Curry those minutes. That's also possible. Either way, I think it's going to be

Dame/Baldwin
CJ/Curry/Stauskas
Harkless/Turner/Layman
Aminu/Collins/Biggie
Nurk/Leonard

 

I forgot about Trent and Simons.... honestly..... I hope Neil makes a trade. I don't see any way we can have 7 guards on our team next season.... 8 if you count Turner.