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because he was traded for paul george
shouldn't you be working on your sky hook bonner?
because he was traded for paul george
Yeah same as last year 11 bucks to watch all the Summer League games online..
Should be an interesting Summer league. Glad to see Richards make it and Gist back
If it's the same crappy feed as last year, no thanks.
lol i hope u didn't confuse it with my crappy feed..
im gonna try to host it again .. as long as my channel doesn't get canned
Nothing new about the Spurs, but lots of info about where some non-drafted players will go for SL:
http://www.ridiculousupside.com/2010...-is-it-time-to
Zoubek will play in Orlando for the Nets. I wonder if the Russian guy has seen Zoubek's girlfriend.
Bobcats got some quality guys to play for their SL team
James Gist!!!!
I am very excited to see Gee, Hairston & Richards play. I want to see Richards live to see if he at least looks like a prospect.
I don't get Gist being there. He had one of the best SL's you could have and nothing came of it. He can't do any better.
http://twitter.com/DraftExpressGood day for my buddy Sharon Drucker. Named head coach of Aris Thessaloniki and will be an assistant on San Antonio's summer league squad
Ian Mahinmi 2.0?
Blair and Richards should work well together as a summer league front court, I would think. Hairston and Gee should also do pretty well. Should be an exciting summer league squad.
Tyler Smith - Got kicked off the Tennessee basketball team after being caught with weapons and such, but then buggered off to Turkey where he averaged 16.8 points, 6.8 boards and 4.1 assists while shooting 53% from the field and 42% from beyond the arc. There's some talent there if the off-the-court stuff can be reined in.'Off the court stuff'? That's like saying Ted Bundy had a few dating issues that he might grow out of.
Sweet, im thinking about heading to vegas for a saturday game hopefully.
Not that it changes what he did, but this does add context (assuming he's not full of it):
Tyler Smith explains gun charge, sort of
When Tyler Smith and three fellow Tennessee Volunteers were caught with a handgun, a bag of marijuana, and an open container of alcohol on New Year's Day, Tennessee's season was supposed to be finished. Instead, the Volunteers rallied, recovering from the dismissal of Smith and the suspensions of Cameron Tatum, Brian Williams, and Melvin Goins by beating Kansas nine days later and eventually getting all the way to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament's toughest region. Smith's loss didn't hold the Volunteers back. In fact, it was easy to forget all about him.
Still, it's worth revisiting why exactly Smith and company had a handgun in the first place. After all, getting caught with marijuana and an open container of alcohol is already bad enough, especially if you're someone for whom criminal activity can become a public issue. But it's even worse to have a handgun with an altered serial number on your person. Why? That's the most confusing part. Why the gun?
On Monday morning, speaking for the first time since his arrest and dismissal, Smith attempted to explain just that:
Tyler Smith, Tennessee's top-rated basketball player, said he bought the gun that brought down his college career because someone had threatened to kill his 3-year-old son. He's never said that before now. And he still won't go to the police. Last November in Knoxville, Smith, who lived off campus, had much of his personal property stolen. The former Giles County High School star said he was about to call the police, but the threats came first.
He said the first text message threatened his life. The second promised to kill his son. Smith said he knows who did it, but he never called the police. Instead, two days later, he bought a Taurus pistol for protection. "I'm the one who put myself into that situation with the gun," Smith said recently, speaking publicly about the incident for the first time. "But a lot of people don't know the whole situation."
The story makes sense, and it fits in well with the refrain we often hear when a high-profile athlete is caught with a gun: I needed it to protect myself. And I get that. I really do. For professional athletes, it behooves one to hire a couple of bodyguards for personal protection rather than take the pistol into your elastic waistband, Plaxico Burress-style. That same opportunity isn't afforded to amateur athletes, who don't have the money to pay for guards. They have to go a different way.
Which is why Tyler Smith should have gone to the cops. Immediately. Why didn't he? Smith has a plausible explanation for that, too:
Smith said police asked why he hadn't reported them. Smith said he responded by saying the threats specifically stated for him not to go to police. "Two or three guys," Smith said last week, referring to the threat makers. "I knew them, I knew them, I knew them."
"I never even thought about using it," Smith. "I thought if word got around that I had protection, that would keep them away."
Again, I get it. Or maybe I don't get it -- I've never been threatened with violence -- but I at the very least can empathize. You're scared. You've got people threatening your life and the life of your loved ones. You've got stuff getting stolen from your house. They're telling you not to go to the cops. You might be slightly uncomfortable getting cops involved anyway. I know I would be. The walls are closing in.
So you take matters into your own hands, hoping the knowledge that you're capable of violence keeps your threat-makers from turning their threats into action. And what happens? You get caught, you get in trouble, and your alibi -- plausible though it may be -- has little on record to back it up.
There is a lesson to be learned here, especially for young athletes who feel threatened: Tell your coach. Tell your advisers. Tell the cops. Absolutely nothing good can come from thinking you can handle such threats on your own. Tyler Smith's story sounds all too familiar, and while it's easy to empathize, it's hard not to think Smith should have known better. Because closing walls or no, he should have.
I think that either Gee or Hairston will be one of the "breakouts" this summer league. Gee has nice game, and if Hairston can develop a consistent outside shot he will light up the summer league. As for Anderson, if he does play, I also do expect him to have a successful summer league. He has some nice range and can hit the open shots.
Any news on him? Has he developed to a point where he could make the 15 man roster in your opinion? I honestly think his chance of joining is almost over, unless he has a huge summer league. The first summer league he played in was great.
James White!
I anticipate that Anderson would actually struggle in summer league. He seems to play better in a structured and organized offense with designed plays being run for him. Without that structure he'll play below his usual level. I don't imagine he'll be at McClinton's level of last year considering his prototypical size for a 2, but he probably won't be as prolific as we'd like for the summer league.
Last edited by Darkwaters; 06-26-2010 at 12:46 PM.
Or Manu Ginobili 2.0, who started his rookie season with an ankle injury.
The weird thing about Gist is that he had a great summer SL and then crashed when brought in to practice with the Spurs. I don't know what happened to his confidence I guess the stress of having to play over seas and know that they were looking at making you into a SF which means you better make you open shots got to him.
The kid is athletic and has worked on his game so I think at this point he will be much better big then the Aggie who got invited. The question will be is can he make the move from PF to SF and that remains to be seen.
Either way I think he will at least get a D league spot which should be an excellent team.
PG. Matt Bouldin or Mikhail Torrance
SG.?
SF.James Gist or Elijah Millsap
PF.Ryan Richards
C. Artsiom Parakhouski
As far as summer league the above players are the ones I want to watch the most. Getting Blair to play in SL is a very smart way of staying in shape and staying out of Pops doghouse for being fat for the start of Spurs practices.
At this point I don't see why Hairston and Gee would take part as I don't think what they show or don't show will make that much difference before camp.
Last edited by BackHome; 06-27-2010 at 06:48 PM.
I think that is the earliest anyone has ever projected a Toros team roster. No one even knows if those free agents want to play in the D-League yet.
It's all part for the evaluation process for them. I could see one or both of them being the featured scorer(s) on the team to see what they've got. Conversely, each could draw the most difficult defensive assignment to check them out that way.As far as summer league the above players are the ones I want to watch the most. Getting Blair to play in SL is a very smart way of staying in shape and staying out of Pops doghouse for being fat for the start of Spurs practices.
At this point I don't see why Hairston and Gee would take part as I don't think what they show or don't show will make that much difference before camp.
I read earlier that Samardo Samuels agent is trying to get him a spot on the Spurs' summer league team as well.
The only reason I see Gee and Hairston is that they know our system and will be good players for a team. But as far as it being a benefit for them I don't see that unless we are trying to trade them.
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