Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The summer leagues

Don't matter and tell us very little. Enjoy them if you wish, but it's rookies and 2nd-year players against scrubs and never-will-bes. Competition that's about as weak as what they faced in college. The games have no limits on fouls and are played more to acclimate rookies to a system than anything.
In 2006, Randy Foye was the summer league star. In 2007 it was Marco Bellinelli. In 2008, not only was Jerryd Bayless unstoppable, Derrick Rose was disappointing. It takes rookies awhile to adjust to the league anyways. They can't be expect to be the player they'll eventually become in 6 games with a team that will be radically different when the season starts.
Enjoy the games as a fan, but don't read too much into them.

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