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My awards for SL

MVP: Dante Cunningham
Biggest surprise: Armon Johnson
Biggest disappointment: Jeff Pendergraph
Best of the Rest: Ekene Ibekwe
 
Pooh Jeter got a good job in Spain last year off Summer League with the Blazers. Mills looks a lot better than that, so he deserves AT LEAST that. Be fun if Sergio vs. Patty was a featured matchup.
 
Why does our SL team always have a generic tall white guy who sucks?
 
alex42083 said:
My awards for SL

MVP: Dante Cunningham
Biggest surprise: Armon Johnson
Biggest disappointment: Jeff Pendergraph
Best of the Rest: Ekene Ibekwe
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Sounds about right. Babbitt has totally redeemed himself the past 3 halves.
 
There are about 4 others who in too few minutes have shown ability. If Cunningham, Pendergraph, and Mills hadn't been here, we could have seen them get more minutes.

I've been wondering why Pendergraph seems to be guaranteed a spot. Nice to see I'm not alone. He has size and attitude but otherwise doesn't stand out. He's big enough to play center if all our centers go down.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Sounds about right. Babbitt has totally redeemed himself the past 3 halves.
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You can really tell that he has gotten more comfortable as the SL has gone on. It will be interesting to see how he does in training camp and preseason.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Sounds about right. Babbitt has totally redeemed himself the past 3 halves.
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Yeah, Luke was on the verge but left a pretty good impression the last couple games. And the biggest disappointment could've been Patty but Pendergraph set the bar pretty high with his claims to be SL MVP.. He didn't really come close, and big men hardly thrive in SL anyway.
 
alex42083 said:
Yeah, Luke was on the verge but left a pretty good impression the last couple games. And the biggest disappointment could've been Patty but Pendergraph set the bar pretty high with his claims to be SL MVP.. He didn't really come close, and big men hardly thrive in SL anyway.
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I like Jeff's hustle and his intensity, but he's a wooden man out there on offense and his post defense is nothing to write home about either ... He'll be on the roster in the fall, but he looks like 13th man material right now.
 
Babbit is going to be more than fine. Kid has size, he shoots well, he has handles, he can pass.

This is never going to be a makeup for the Webster over CP3/Deron - but I think we got a little back - we minimized that mistake a little with that trade.

I will repeat what I said after the 3rd game - if he is as slow, confused and looking out of sync as he is and yet he still manages to average double-digit scoring without being a ball-dominant guard - kid has a good future ahead of him.
 
Spreadsheet shows Green and Terry deserved more minutes. Terry and Ibekwe were #2 and #3 in eff/min. Reyshawn Terry has been unnoticed all series. Krabbenhoft broke his string of leading all but 1 game in +/- per minute, so he was no. 1 in the middle 3 of the 5 games.

In my opinion, the overriding story is that our last 2 Summer League teams have been ruined by Bayless hogging the ball. This was much more fun to watch, and a much better team. Finally, there was no leader who lacks the talent to pass off on his drives, and who thinks that he's there to dominate his teammates.
 
jlprk said:
I've been wondering why Pendergraph seems to be guaranteed a spot. Nice to see I'm not alone. He has size and attitude but otherwise doesn't stand out. He's big enough to play center if all our centers go down.
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These three immortal words of Mike Rice explain why Pendergraph has a spot: "he'll whack ya".
 
jlprk said:
In my opinion, the overriding story is that our last 2 Summer League teams have been ruined by Bayless hogging the ball. This was much more fun to watch, and a much better team. Finally, there was no leader who lacks the talent to pass off on his drives, and who thinks that he's there to dominate his teammates.
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I agree. Perhaps the real MVP was Kaleb Canales.
 
alex42083 said:
and big men hardly thrive in SL anyway.
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I think we got that impression because of Bayless. I think it's somewhat true, but a lot less true than we saw in 2008 and 2009.
 
Mills may garner criticism, but he's 10 times the PG and leader that Bayless was. Okay, I'll shut up about Bayless.

Except: I'm sorry that Mills didn't look better, because now we have to get rid of him instead of Bayless to get down to 6 guards. My roster had been showing that Rudy and Bayless will be the ones to go.

Okay, now I'll shut up about Bayless.
 
Yes, it was nice to see Babbitt have a good game. He might be a productive player for us this year or next. I thought Pendergraph actually did a good job. He has no offensive repertoire, but he's tough and he rebounds.
 
jlprk said:
Mills may garner criticism, but he's 10 times the PG and leader that Bayless was. Okay, I'll shut up about Bayless.

Except: I'm sorry that Mills didn't look better, because now we have to get rid of him instead of Bayless to get down to 6 guards. My roster had been showing that Rudy and Bayless will be the ones to go.

Okay, now I'll shut up about Bayless.
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Yeah, but what about Jerryd?
 
You're right, I may have said I'd shut up about Bayless, but I can still mouth off about Jerryd.

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