Omri ( C ) -- started off ok as about the only King doing anything for the first few minutes. Began with a post again, made a nice dropoff pass to Cousins, which was a welcome change, but Boobie blew the assist enroute to an awful first half. Returned with Donte struggling bigtime, but Omri struggled just as badly, was not helping on the glass, and could get nothing going himself but an open dunk. Handle looked shaky for much of the afternoon and was a bad defensie match for the hyper-athletic DeRozan/Weems duo tailor made for breezy summer ball. Did better late, at least offensively. Had a tipin on the break. Came on a bit as we came back in the 4th, bit a bad pass turnover inside the 2:00 mark helped finish us
Whiteside ( B- ) -- the shotblocking was back and a better outing than the last two games. But there was a lack of substance again that kept this from being an impact performance. Had a big early block on the break, two more blocks on Dorsey on one possesson, and showed a few more tanatalizing glimpses of offense in the 2nd. But also continued to struggle with physicality on the glass, and blocks aside, was often invisible on defense where he kept on losing contact with his men.
Cousins ( D+ ) -- oh boy. A red flag palooza. Well, maybe not red flag. Yellow flag perhaps. In any case everything that could go wrong, went wrong. All those things that have been going right, did not. First yellow flag was this -- faced with a Toronto summer league team built exactly opposite of its big league counterparrt of the last few years, full of defenders and shotblockers, Boogie was considerably disrupted. Blew a number if layups and finsihes early as our old friend Dorsey bothered him. The groundbound nature of his game was exposed as a Toronto team that had obviously been watching some tape sat on his moves and blocked 4 or 5 of his shots on help defense. Things got so bad that he missed his first 11 shots of the game. Now the positives were that he continued to contribute some nice passes (it tells you everything that you need to know about this game that he tied for the team lead in assists with 2), and he continued to chew up rebounds. Yellow flag #2 was htis though: the defense. First, as certain incredibly brilliant and handsome individuals predicted, Boogie's desire to play defense like a guard and try to run in front of people for charges acted like a foul magnet today as he managed to get a triple double...with fouls, and fouled out of a summer league game (not easy to do). Secondly, his issues as a shotblocker/defender were put on display as he tried to amp up his defense and impose himself, and instead only got himself deeper into foul trouble. And he had trouble even looming over 6'7"ish Joey Dorsey without going for the block and picking up another foul. It almost looks like he has a hard time getting around that big body of his when trying to block, and so he might get some ball, but the big body slams into the other guy first, and its a foul. After the disastrous first half picked things up a little in the third, albeit by basically retreating out to 20 feet from the hoop and draining some long uncontested jumpers. Started the 4th with a nice jump hook, and late in the period started to make another Boogie run that could have changed the feel of this grade considerably had he pulled out another victory. But he remained careless with his fouls, and fouled out before he could finish things up. Too often looked the big slouchy unhappy kid this time out, which I guess is the last yellow flag. On more of a green flag note, its always a good sign when your young center can clearly have a terrible game and still give you 16pts 12rebs in it.
Landesberg ( C ) -- might have been our best player for a few minutes in the early going, got to the hoop and had a clever little fake pass to free himself up for a drive. But completely disappeared thereafter, had troouble with the Toronto shotblocking (don't forget Jerry says shotblocking is overrated though folks!), wasn't getting back in transition D, and DeRozan lit him up. Added a dumb foul on a three point shooter in 4th. He can't say he didn't have an opportunity here with all our main guys struggling and Thompson out. He even got to audition as a big "PG' for a few minutes. Just didn't do much with it.
Sloan ( D ) -- has done everything possible to either make us regret signing him if we have, or convince us not to if we haven't. Which is to say has done absolutely nothing in summer league, and did not change that today. One solitary hoop, and nothing else. Rice was better, and he was gunning like an idiot. Bobby Brown was better on the Raptors' squad, and we all have seen that he is a marginal NBA guy. Don't think Sloan knows how to make an impact as a PG.
Greene ( C+ ) -- came in and struggled badly, as he and Cousins' early probelms both typified our problems, and explained them (really our two main guys and were a collective 0-16 at one point). Threw a baseline inbounds pass directly to a Raptor for the layup, nearly airballed a three, blew two easy shots on break, was 0-6 and running into the wall of shotblockers whenever he went inside. Then finally scored on an amazing whirling flip layup +1. Came in in the second and immediately hit a shot. Canned a big three in the early 4th, but never could establish any offensive rhythm and followed it with several more misses on key shots we needed to open a lead. Stuck with things though, and if nothing else you would have to give him credit for most persistent effort in the face of adversity. Made a difference with some shotblocks in the 4th. Drained a 30 foot three at the 40 second mark to cut the deficit back to three, but that was it..
Chism ( B ) -- wasn't doing much eitehr in the early going, and then got hurt and sat out the rest of the half. Back after half and returned to more of his normal solid output. Had a strong rebound in traffic. Got infected by the teamwide blown layup syndrome in the third, but kept getting the boards back and eventually scored. Got into it with Dorsey too, eventually picking up double technicals. Hit a deep corner 2 inside the 1 mintue mark. Nothing enormous, but solid again and stood out for not struggling too badly.
Atchley ( INC ) -- let's just say we aren't going to be seeing him in training camp. Missed long jumpers and provided no relief at all for our beleagured bigs.
Rice ( C+ ) -- came in just to give us some life, had a nifty behind the back pass to Greene, hit a nice litte floater. Just dumb gunning in the third as he and Bobby Brown decided to give us a display of one on one midget gunner guard play. Scrambled for a few steals at least, and was our best PG of the day, which is saying pretty much nothing.
Cummard ( INC ) -- I did not even know he was on the team, and based onn these minutes I am still not sure. I think thrown in there in desperation early wiht no other guards (think he's a SG) doing muhc of anything, and Thompson hurt. Didn't get anything accomplished.
Christmas ( C ) -- was in later in the game. Hit his only shot, but joined the defensive issues of the rest of our guard line.
Whiteside ( B- ) -- the shotblocking was back and a better outing than the last two games. But there was a lack of substance again that kept this from being an impact performance. Had a big early block on the break, two more blocks on Dorsey on one possesson, and showed a few more tanatalizing glimpses of offense in the 2nd. But also continued to struggle with physicality on the glass, and blocks aside, was often invisible on defense where he kept on losing contact with his men.
Cousins ( D+ ) -- oh boy. A red flag palooza. Well, maybe not red flag. Yellow flag perhaps. In any case everything that could go wrong, went wrong. All those things that have been going right, did not. First yellow flag was this -- faced with a Toronto summer league team built exactly opposite of its big league counterparrt of the last few years, full of defenders and shotblockers, Boogie was considerably disrupted. Blew a number if layups and finsihes early as our old friend Dorsey bothered him. The groundbound nature of his game was exposed as a Toronto team that had obviously been watching some tape sat on his moves and blocked 4 or 5 of his shots on help defense. Things got so bad that he missed his first 11 shots of the game. Now the positives were that he continued to contribute some nice passes (it tells you everything that you need to know about this game that he tied for the team lead in assists with 2), and he continued to chew up rebounds. Yellow flag #2 was htis though: the defense. First, as certain incredibly brilliant and handsome individuals predicted, Boogie's desire to play defense like a guard and try to run in front of people for charges acted like a foul magnet today as he managed to get a triple double...with fouls, and fouled out of a summer league game (not easy to do). Secondly, his issues as a shotblocker/defender were put on display as he tried to amp up his defense and impose himself, and instead only got himself deeper into foul trouble. And he had trouble even looming over 6'7"ish Joey Dorsey without going for the block and picking up another foul. It almost looks like he has a hard time getting around that big body of his when trying to block, and so he might get some ball, but the big body slams into the other guy first, and its a foul. After the disastrous first half picked things up a little in the third, albeit by basically retreating out to 20 feet from the hoop and draining some long uncontested jumpers. Started the 4th with a nice jump hook, and late in the period started to make another Boogie run that could have changed the feel of this grade considerably had he pulled out another victory. But he remained careless with his fouls, and fouled out before he could finish things up. Too often looked the big slouchy unhappy kid this time out, which I guess is the last yellow flag. On more of a green flag note, its always a good sign when your young center can clearly have a terrible game and still give you 16pts 12rebs in it.
Landesberg ( C ) -- might have been our best player for a few minutes in the early going, got to the hoop and had a clever little fake pass to free himself up for a drive. But completely disappeared thereafter, had troouble with the Toronto shotblocking (don't forget Jerry says shotblocking is overrated though folks!), wasn't getting back in transition D, and DeRozan lit him up. Added a dumb foul on a three point shooter in 4th. He can't say he didn't have an opportunity here with all our main guys struggling and Thompson out. He even got to audition as a big "PG' for a few minutes. Just didn't do much with it.
Sloan ( D ) -- has done everything possible to either make us regret signing him if we have, or convince us not to if we haven't. Which is to say has done absolutely nothing in summer league, and did not change that today. One solitary hoop, and nothing else. Rice was better, and he was gunning like an idiot. Bobby Brown was better on the Raptors' squad, and we all have seen that he is a marginal NBA guy. Don't think Sloan knows how to make an impact as a PG.
Greene ( C+ ) -- came in and struggled badly, as he and Cousins' early probelms both typified our problems, and explained them (really our two main guys and were a collective 0-16 at one point). Threw a baseline inbounds pass directly to a Raptor for the layup, nearly airballed a three, blew two easy shots on break, was 0-6 and running into the wall of shotblockers whenever he went inside. Then finally scored on an amazing whirling flip layup +1. Came in in the second and immediately hit a shot. Canned a big three in the early 4th, but never could establish any offensive rhythm and followed it with several more misses on key shots we needed to open a lead. Stuck with things though, and if nothing else you would have to give him credit for most persistent effort in the face of adversity. Made a difference with some shotblocks in the 4th. Drained a 30 foot three at the 40 second mark to cut the deficit back to three, but that was it..
Chism ( B ) -- wasn't doing much eitehr in the early going, and then got hurt and sat out the rest of the half. Back after half and returned to more of his normal solid output. Had a strong rebound in traffic. Got infected by the teamwide blown layup syndrome in the third, but kept getting the boards back and eventually scored. Got into it with Dorsey too, eventually picking up double technicals. Hit a deep corner 2 inside the 1 mintue mark. Nothing enormous, but solid again and stood out for not struggling too badly.
Atchley ( INC ) -- let's just say we aren't going to be seeing him in training camp. Missed long jumpers and provided no relief at all for our beleagured bigs.
Rice ( C+ ) -- came in just to give us some life, had a nifty behind the back pass to Greene, hit a nice litte floater. Just dumb gunning in the third as he and Bobby Brown decided to give us a display of one on one midget gunner guard play. Scrambled for a few steals at least, and was our best PG of the day, which is saying pretty much nothing.
Cummard ( INC ) -- I did not even know he was on the team, and based onn these minutes I am still not sure. I think thrown in there in desperation early wiht no other guards (think he's a SG) doing muhc of anything, and Thompson hurt. Didn't get anything accomplished.
Christmas ( C ) -- was in later in the game. Hit his only shot, but joined the defensive issues of the rest of our guard line.
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