The Official 2018 NBA Summer League Thread | July 2-17

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How bad is phoenix gonna regret the zhaire Smith trade?
 
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I didn’t watch the game but his box score don’t look impressive. Is he better than Zhaire Smith?

Outside of athleticism, I'm not all that impressed with Zhaire Smith.I know he's young/raw,

but there's certain skills you either have naturally, or you don't.Ironically, I think his best bet is

to become a 3 & D guy like Bridges.Other than that, I think he'll be a 7th/8th man off the bench

who comes in and electrifies the crowd with hustle plays/dunks
 

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Outside of athleticism, I'm not all that impressed with Zhaire Smith.I know he's young/raw,

but there's certain skills you either have naturally, or you don't.Ironically, I think his best bet is

to become a 3 & D guy like Bridges.Other than that, I think he'll be a 7th/8th man off the bench

who comes in and electrifies the crowd with hustle plays/dunks

They won't. Bridges is better in the short and long term
Zhaire is doing better in the SL than Bridges
 
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Zhaire is doing better in the SL than Bridges

He's averaging more points/minutes.

27 mpg compared to 21 for Bridges.

Bridges is averaging 9.5 pts on 70% FG .....5/8 from 3pt range

Smith is averaging 11.5 pts on 45% FG...1/5 from 3pt range

Despite Smith averaging 2 pts more, I still think Bridges is playing better

It's SL, tho.We won't know the truth until another 4-5 yrs from now
 

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Gonna tune out of this Raptors summer league game on NBATV. Rick Kamla and Derek Fisher might be the worst play by play duo out there. They're talking about anything besides the game. I don't even know who is who out there, besides the players I've seen before. Then you have a split screen that takes up a third of the screen when they're interviewing someone. NBATV is pure manure.
 

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Gonna tune out of this Raptors summer league game on NBATV. Rick Kamla and Derek Fisher might be the worst play by play duo out there. They're talking about anything besides the game. I don't even know who is who out there, besides the players I've seen before. Then you have a split screen that takes up a third of the screen when they're interviewing someone. NBATV is pure manure.
I'm flipping in and out, but why does NBATV feel like I need to see the interview as it's happening? I can hear it just fine. It's not as if they're doing magic tricks while the game is happening.

Let's be real, the real reason why they just talk bullshyt is because they don't know the rest of the players outside of whoever the first rounder was.
 

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Gonna tune out of this Raptors summer league game on NBATV. Rick Kamla and Derek Fisher might be the worst play by play duo out there. They're talking about anything besides the game. I don't even know who is who out there, besides the players I've seen before. Then you have a split screen that takes up a third of the screen when they're interviewing someone. NBATV is pure manure.

I put it on mute, got music playing :skip:
 
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