Game Thread 2022 SUMMER LEAGUE - GAME 1 - BLAZERS @ PISTONS - THURSDAY - JULY 7, 2022 - 9PM (PDT) ESPN (2 Viewers)

[Fairly-Hard]

he posted that a few hours ago. did find a PJ headed to vegas in a few minutes...

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/EJA625/history/20220707/2130Z/KPDX/KLAS

this is prolly the team personnel headed over.

i dunno, it's minor, but it would be nice if Dame was there in attendance. He knows how it felt when Aldridge didn't take him under his wing, but he still had Wes/Nico in attendance during his summer league debut.

That is a cool link. Nice.

 

[Strenuus]

im as excited for this game as i would be a game 1 in the playoffs.

need to calm down, cuz the only place from here is down. hard to keep expectations low after the teasers the team has put out on Shaedon.

Did you expect to see bad stuff when the team was promoting him? Lol.

 

[illmatic99]

Did you expect to see bad stuff when the team was promoting him? Lol.

no but that would have been funny if they did. maybe you would have had another meltdown about drafting him after seeing that.

 

[JDC]

Even with the year off I have no doubts Sheadon will look good as a scorer tonight. He's the best natural scorer in this draft class imo.

It's the other stuff that I'll be interested to see where he's at. Minus creating spacing for jumpers and the flashes here and there the handle looked pretty rough in the full games I watched. Quite a few mishandles, didn't read or handle digs well, turnover prone in transition. How's the passing vision? Didn't run a ton of ball screen stuff even as the man at Dream City and UPlay, Can hit the roll man, but didn't see really any high level reads. Did a decent job making the simple next pass within the flow, will make the laydown pass too if he touches the paint, willing hit ahead passer in transition.

Defensively I just want to see him compete on the ball. Don't have a great read on his lateral quickness. Was rare to see him sit down and slide with guys last year so still not sure if its a hasn't done it or can't do it sort of thing. Some have said the team Canada was better but still saw a lot of the same issues to a lesser extent in the couple games I watched.

Has a chance to be pretty awesome rebounder and weakside defender. His big hands and wild two foot bounce allows him to get rebounds that most guys just cant get to and if we are going to up on most ball screens again next year, his secondary rim protection will come in handy (as well as GP2 and Grant).

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

A favor please, I am on holidays on a lake in BC with no internet and spotty cell reception. Please post thoughts, comments on our young’ uns during the game. May not see them until later but will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[crandc]

Taping it. I turn into a pumpkin at midnight Eastern time.

 

[THE HCP]

What happened between Dame and the Rookie? Did I miss something?

 

[THE HCP]

im as excited for this game as i would be a game 1 in the playoffs.

Yes, let’s not set ourselves up for a major letdown FAMS!
https://www.espn.com/nba/columns/spears_marc/1586209.html

 

[B-Roy]

For some reason I thought this was 9PM eastern. It's actually 9PM PACIFIC? WTF?

 

[Haakzilla]

What happened between Dame and the Rookie? Did I miss something?

...apparently Dame unfollowed him on the same day he was officially announced (they metup at the PF prior to morning presser) so idk rookie hazing perhaps?

 

[Chris Craig]

For some reason I thought this was 9PM eastern. It's actually 9PM PACIFIC? WTF?

Yep. I thought it was eastern at first too.

 

[damianlillard]

...apparently Dame unfollowed him on the same day he was officially announced (they metup at the PF prior to morning presser) so idk rookie hazing perhaps?

Yeah that was weird. Maybe it Dame way of trying to get Sharpe to gain his respect. More likely that Dame wanted to trade the pick. But no one really knows what Dame is thinking rn. He hasn’t signed an extension too

 

[TBpup]

Very odd that he would follow Sharpe, then unfollow him. Has he done that to any other teammate?

 

[illmatic99]

Very odd that he would follow Sharpe, then unfollow him. Has he done that to any other teammate?

who knows. this was the only one i noticed cuz i went to follow shaedon and saw dame had already done it. next day, dame was no longer a follower.

dame is kind of a diva on social. i just hope he still mentors the kid. a couple of summers with dame/phil is exactly what shaedon needs. it certainly worked with ant, and appears to be working with nas.

 

[THE HCP]

Very odd that he would follow Sharpe, then unfollow him. Has he done that to any other teammate?

I did that to you last month.

 

[Tince]

Before the Garza love starts... No, we shouldn't give him a 2-way deal.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Looks like we won’t be starting at 9:00. Probably 9:20-9:30

 

[illmatic99]

so im guessing they delay the start of our game?

 

[BBert]

Bastards.

Get those chumps off the floor so our guys can warm up.

 

[Natebishop3]

Eason is a guy who is going to stay on the floor because of his hustle.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Before the Garza love starts... No, we shouldn't give him a 2-way deal.

I was just thinking this morning that's probably what we end up doing.

 

[DDolla]

Let’s Go Blazers! Show your stuff Shaedon Sharpe

 

[MickZagger]

For some reason I thought this was 9PM eastern. It's actually 9PM PACIFIC? WTF?

Vegas is a 24 hour city babay!

 

[Chris Craig]

Let's go!

 

[illmatic99]

Come on!!

 

[noknobs]

Lillard is out? WTF

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Lillard is out? WTF

Yup, tanking Summer League, hoping for a better draft pick…

 

[DDolla]

Lillard is out? WTF

Don’t worry we have a new star in Sharpe

 

[PHXBlazer1]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Pistons are gonna boat race us