Portland vs Utah Summer League Finale! Friday, 5:30pm, Game Thread!

[riverman]

Gobert is owning the boards, dude can rebound

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Freeland is just looking awful. Everytime they score, there he is in the picture, watching the play go past him. He seems to have gone back to Rookie Freeland.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

We did a lot better when we were playing the scrubs...

 

[SpamKing]

We did a lot better when we were playing the scrubs...

Heh, heh . . . They're all scrubs!

 

[riverman]

I'm thinking Joel has suffered from practicing against Meyers all summer.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Sigh. THis is going to be a repeat of the last game, isn't it?

 

[Darkwebs]

Crabbe with the floater!

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Heh, heh . . . They're all scrubs!

Harsh, but fair.

 

[PDXFonz]

I hate saying it because it makes me feel like an asshole, and he's certainly better than myself by a landslide...But Meyers really doesn't belong in the league, I don't even think he'd start in Croatia.

 

[Darkwebs]

Sick step back jumper by CJ!

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Nice stepback by CJ.

 

[riverman]

By the action on the board tonight I think after last game 4.99 seemed like a lot of money

 

[PDXFonz]

Everyone is a winner, if his ends in sudden death ot.

 

[PDXFonz]

I'd love to watch the 06 summer league games again. I haven't tried to find them, but I bet it will be near impossible to.

 

[Darkwebs]

CJ with the no-look steal!

 

[Darkwebs]

Great pass by Brown to CJ for the lay up

 

[Darkwebs]

Barton with the pull up jumper

 

[Darkwebs]

One of the rare times CJ loses the handle.

 

[Darkwebs]

Gobert swats Crabbe

 

[riverman]

One thing you can say about the summer league roster, there's not a great 3pt shooter on the roster

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Bobby Brown is pissing me off. Every time he gets the ball he dribbles. He never just passes or shoots. He's a ball-stopper. Please, we've seen enough. Give someone else a chance.

 

[riverman]

Good thing is Crabbe is approaching a double double

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Wow, my two goats combine for a nice pick and roll - Freeland scores on a sweet little Brown pass.

 

[riverman]

Joel got a bucket!!

 

[Darkwebs]

Joel stops Exum at the rim. Good d!

 

[adrenalize74]

Barton really doesn't belong in the NBA, he is a playground baller, he does not make a team better. I dont want another selfish Crawford on this team. Fun to watch though, just not if you want to win.

McCollum is not the answer off the bench either, he just doesnt have "it". He has had 1 good summer league game, where he just happened to be hot from 3, and 3 crappy games.

WAY too much blind hate for Leonard. I am not saying he is playing "great" or ever will be a solid starter I hoped he would be, but he really is playing pretty well. He is much improved (fundamentally) over last year. If you actually watch him objectively, he is playing pretty good. Playing physical in the paint, challenging shots, boxing out MUCH better, and just being overall more active and engaged. Add to that we have no PG and a selfish player in Barton, he even steals rebounds from Leonard/Freeland. Yeah, Leonard should be more aggressive on the glass and grab boards before Barton gets to it, but he is not a natural rebounder and Barton is a very good rebounder for a guard. Leonard is never going to fill up the stats sheet with this summer squad.

My 3 cents.....

 

[Darkwebs]

Wonderful assist by Meyers!

 

[Darkwebs]

Here comes our run!

 

[riverman]

I don't hate Leonard, he's playing better in some areas and tonight is his best game in a long, long time but he has had some really terrible perfornances up until this game and that is being objective. I disagree that it's the roster that's holding Meyers back though, he should eat up the summer league 5s and he really hasn't

 

[Darkwebs]

Wow, sideways floater by CJ!