MRMsix6
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Good, because I didn't.
I haven't been on here tooting anyone's horn or on the flip side, bashing anyone. It's summer league, it honestly does not matter. There are guys that kill summer league and do nothing in the NBA and there are guys who get killed in summer league and turn in to very good pros.
It's not worth the time many people devote to it. It's just organized practice where every fringe player is out to "get theirs". Ball movement typically sucks, there's little floor spacing, guys take terrible shots, there's no continuity, many don't play defense and the refs just want to get out of there. It's somewhere in-between And1 and an All-Star game.
Watch it, try to enjoy it but drawing conclusions from it is typically a shot in the dark (at best).
This whole post, specifically the bolded, cannot be overstated.
These games are going to be analyzed because we have nothing better to do as basketball fans. But if people are drawing conclusions about a player's NBA career from one or even five summer league games, we have a problem.