I had the chance to go down to Sin City for a couple of days of NBA Summer League action this past weekend. The quality of basketball wasn't great, but that doesn't matter that much in summer league ball. All of these players were out to impress. One who did so was Lithuanian 7-footer Donatas Motiejunas of the Houston Rockets. I watched his first game on Friday where he scored 25 points in 25 minutes and grabbed 9 rebounds. He was impressive, and with Luis Scola gone he'll probably get some good playing time in the upcoming season. Watch out for this guy. He's also got a smokin' hot girlfriend to boot.
The Bobcats won a game! Well, their summer league team did. They were led by rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The second overall pick in this summer's draft was all over the place stealing, dunking, shooting, and defending. MJ made the right pick getting MKG. We'll have to wait and see if he made the right choice with their new coach. He seemed more like a high school coach as he had his team pressing the whole game. It worked to win a summer league game, but who cares? We'll see what he does once the real season starts.
Other than that there weren't really any big stand-outs. Thomas Robinson looked okay for the Kings. He showed great ability to get the free throw line. He could use some improvement on knocking down those free throws, though. He'll be good once he gets used to the NBA game. He's got all the tools. He looked better than Jimmer. Jimmer still hasn't gotten the same confidence back that he had at BYU. He seemed to kind of struggle when he was running the point. In the second Kings game I saw they had him at the 2. He looked a lot more comfortable there and did much better. Hopefully he'll be able to find his niche. I'm not sure it's in Sacramento.
I'm excited to see more summer league story lines come out this week. I'm even more excited for the USA National Team. Hopefully nobody else will get hurt (best wishes to BG).
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